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"Call of the Wild" Book Review
By: Sheldon Shepard

What if you were torn away from your home, your life, your family, and everything that was ever familiar to you, and got thrown into harsh, life threatening situations? Would you adapt in order to live and survive or would you be totally enveloped in the chaos and just give up, and become a name unmentioned? In Jack London's book "Call of the Wild", we are taught that anyone or thing can be taken from its surroundings and hurled into a world where one has to learn how to survive. Buck, a domesticated dog from Santa Clara Valley is forced into the Yukon because of mans needs for his strength and durability, to pulling a sled. Buck is faced right off the bat with two choices: Endure and adapt to the ruthless, and savage world he is now governed by, or become a name that is forgotten, and unable to pull himself above the water when the rapids come down on him. His life starts to change in a hurry and he must use everything he......

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