The Challenging Read In 'The Call Of The Wild'

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The book The Call of The Wild is a very challenging read. It has a lot of vocabulary words at a high reading level. Some people may think that he book is to challenging for readers to understand. This is not true because the book can teach people new vocabulary words they didn’t know about before. The book has 76 vocabulary words and some are hard for most readers to understand. Another reason that the challenging read is good for readers is that they can learn to have some independence. The reader can learn to understand hard problems (like the book for example) and solve them on there own (example: the reader can understand the book on their own). In conclusion, the challenging read makes for the book to teach the reader some valuable things. The book is also very adventurous. The …show more content…

He starts off at his home, with his family. Then the adventurous nature starts kicking in. He gets sold to some Alaskan guy to be a sled dog. He goes away from his family and has to live on his own with a bunch of other dogs, that are strangers to him. He then has to learn how to survive in the harsh condition of Alaska. There is a lot of killing in the book. An example of that is when Buck killed Sitz to become the pack leader. He also has to pull 1000 pounds of flour all by himself 100 yards. To summarize, the book The Call of The Wild has a very adventurous setting. My last reason you should read the book The Call of The Wild is that is makes you want to keep reading. Almost every page leaves you on a cliff hanger. Here is an example of a page, “Buck’s first day on the Dyea beach was like a nightmare. Every hour was filled with shock and surprise. He had been suddenly jerked from the heart of civilization and flung into the heart of things primordial. No lazy, sun-kissed life was this, with nothing to do but loaf and be bored. Here was neither peace, nor rest, nor a moment’s safety. All was confusion and action, and every moment life and limb were in peril. There