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Compare And Contrast Brian's Winter And The Call Of The Wild

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Have you ever been lost somewhere?Clueless about what's happening?!?Well, in the text “Brian’s Winter” By, Gary Paulsen and “Call of the wild” By, Jack London. The main character is in a conflict where they have no idea where they are.Through the use of the characters thoughts and feelings, Gary and Jack both use Details to illustrate, The theme of survival and confusion In the text “Brian’s Winter” By, Gary Paulsen, He uses Brian in the text to show what's happening and how he is feeling.In the text “But as the day progressed Brian found himself stiffening”(Paulsen 18) this shows how even though everything in the Brian is hurting but, he is still trying to survive and stay here till he is found.Another textual evidence is “Everything in nature means something and he had missed the warnings, That summer was ending.”(Paulsen 21) this shows that he is becoming afraid of staying alive during the winter. In both, Textual evidence Paulsen uses brian’s emotions to illustrate how Brian is feeling.
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