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Setting as a Force: The Call of the Wild Begins — Homework
Read (or listen to) chapter 1 of The Call of the Wild, "Into the Primitive," before answering.
- 1.Describe Buck's life on Judge Miller's estate in two or three sentences.
- 2.What single event moves Buck out of that comfortable setting and into the story's true setting?
- 3.Name the phrase the narrator uses for the rule Buck must now obey.
- 4.Explain why Curly's death on Buck's first night in camp matters to Buck's own education, even though Buck is not the one attacked.
- 5.In four to six sentences, explain how starting Buck's story in a setting of comfort and safety makes his later transformation more dramatic than if he had already been a working sled dog from the start.
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