what can you tell me about the book call of the wild?
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I think this is an adventure book with a wolf who hears his past as he is employed a sled dog now.  I think there were two books by the same author, the other White Fang, about the same kind of Northern adventure.  One is supposed to be so much better but which I forgotten.
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good luck....\n\nhttp://www.sparknotes.com/lit/greatex/\n\nNext time read the book....it is pretty good.
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I did a dissertation on this book so I should know... (hopefully, if I can cast my mind back that far...)\n\n- There is a racist theme running through it. Look at the language Conrad uses when he discusses the natives.. they are always dark, and shadowy, making them threatening and foreign at all times. It ties in perfectly with how he describes the landscape, like when he sees the land for the first time from the boat, eerie and shadowy. Of course, the constant referencing to darkness and shadows ties in with the title! \n\n- There is an apocalyptic theme running through it, almost as though his journey along the river, further and further into darkness is a metaphor for the mad dudes (I've forgotten his name, whoops!) descent into craziness, so look at the darkness within as well, and the link between losing ones sense of englishness, and losing ones sense of identity, at the price of ones sanity. \n\nIt is not just that mad chap who is bonkers, they all are really. madness is a huge theme in the book.\n\nThat is all I can remember, hope it helps! Obviously, it could be beneficial to watch Apocalypse Now as well, as it explores the themes further, in a modern context.
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The book was really informative on a variety of topics although the ending of every chapter had a hook to keep you reading. Even though you felt manipulated into reading on, it was willingly so, since the book was so exciting to read. It was about a mystery, solving a murder, and heavily referenced Catholic Church history, Christianity's history, and religious sects that have sprang up relating to both. In addition, the book also appeals because it contains riddles and puzzles...clues left by the dead man to help his daughter find an important religious artifact.\n\nI highly recommend it.
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I read the book myself about 5 years ago at school. Its all metaphors and political commentary. The link below will provide all the information you could need.\n\nAs to the above answer "do a google", you will find the 95% of the questions on here coud be solved quicker are more effectivly with a google search by the user.
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what wrath puppet said and also read "the schodingers cat trilogy" by Robert anton Wilson  as well you wont be sorry!\n\namazon.com or powells.com\n\nyou might even find it in your local library but once you read it you will want to own it... so you are better off just buying it
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It's a great book and you should read it.\n\nhttp://www.annefrank.com/1_life.htm\nHere's a summary of it and I'm not going to answer all those questions.\n\nhttp://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/frank/fullsumm.html\n\nhttp://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/annefran.htm
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Start obliquely.\n\nA traveller is coming through the rain, along and wet, unawaret hat a great evil is stalking him. He realizes too late of the danger and before he makes it to safety, he is torn to shreds.\n\nThe next day, the bloodied remains are discovered by children, who are more afraid of the beast than what they have seen.\n\nWhat they do not know is that the wizard, "protector of the people" is calling up this demon in a behind-the-scenes power grab.\n\nThe King decides to call beyond the gates for a champion who will vanquish this foe.\n\nNeed a city name? Elfendoor, as it was rumored this once sat on an entryway into the elfen kingdom.\n\nCrap! Why am I giving you ideas? I could write this puppy myself!
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the movie based on the book is called A Cry in the Wind. below is a link where you buy it. it looks like it going to expensive through Amazon, but at least now you know the name of the movie. Good Luck!
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OMG,  I loved that book,  with out a doubt way better than the movie!  It is the 2nd of the 7 chronicles of Narnia.  I read it 3 years ago.  It was sooooooooo awesome!  Why do you ask,  are you planning to read it,  if yes than you should definitley read it!
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go to amazon.com and do a search. I have the book but never read it not my kind of book.
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It is very good, a classic, I would read it over and over again. Many children love it, most likely you will too!\n\nHave Fun Reading An Awesome Book!
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Check Amazon.com.  Or if not there ebay.  If not there try just typing it in to Google.  I have never personally heard of the book so I'm not sure what the results will be.  Good Luck.
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i haven't read it, but if you have an e-file, would you mind sending it to me via email?\n\ncaeszarre@yahoo.com\n\ni've read "Radical Innocence: Studies in the Contemporary American Novel" and "The Dismemberment of Orpheus: Toward a Postmodern Literature"\n\nthanks.
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Read the book with an open mind but also with caution.  I am sure that the book is not entirely worthless, although I have not read it.  I just read the synoposis and reviews on amazon.  However, I am familiar with books like this: Benedictine monks going on a spiritual journey, often making use of Buddhist and other Oriental thought.  \n\nIn my honest opinion, I believe that books like this reflect a great thirst in the West, even in long-standing churches, for genuine spirituality.  I think the amenities of popular culture as well as over-rationalization, among numerous other factors, have eliminated to a great extent a sense in Western culture of the sacred.  My advice: look into Orthodox Christianity, or perhaps at traditional Catholic spirituality.  Of course, if you're Protestant, this might be an issue with you, and if so I can't help you!
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That book is deep, it is amazing in fact. YOu should do yourself a favor and read the whole thing. YOu will find so much in it that speaks to todays culture and society. In school I wrote a whole paper on how the song hotel california could have been used in that book as they traveled. Good luck.
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The near rape of the main character has made this book controversial, and has led to Julie of the Wolves being banned several times\nJulie of the Wolves is a children's novel by Jean Craighead George, published in 1972, about a young Eskimo girl experiencing the changes forced upon her culture from outside. There are two sequels, Julie and Julie's Wolf Pack. . It is number 38 on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000.[1] The book was awarded the Newbery medal in 1973.\n\nJulie, also called Miyax, experiences a series of dislocations after her father (Kapugen) disappears when hunting seals. She then must live with her aunt Martha, who tries to force a Western education on her. To escape from her aunt, she agrees to marry a mentally retarded neighbor a little older than she is. Her new husband's parents (Naka and Nusan) assure her that "he will be like a brother to you"; but Julie's husband (Daniel), tormented by other boys, tries — "as frightened as she" — to rape her. Julie flees, with some idea of joining a pen-pal (Amy) in San Francisco.\n\nLost on Alaska's North Shelf with little else but a traditional Inuit knife, Miyax is close to giving up, until she spots a wolf pack. Remembering a story that her father told her, about how he once survived by taking refuge with wolves, Julie realizes she can do the same. Unfortunately, her father left out how he communicated with the wolves. Undaunted, Julie watches the wolves and learns their non-verbal forms of communication. She then uses this knowledge to get the wolves to accept her as a member of the pack. She especially befriends the black furred alpha male, considering him her new father.\n\nThe wolves eventually head towards the coast, and Julie, with nowhere else to go, follows them. Along the way, she adopts a golden plover that didn't migrate south, whom she calls "Tornait." Eventually, Julie and the wolves get too close to civilization. Her adopted father, the alpha wolf known as Amaroq, is shot from a plane, and many of others are wounded and scattered. Her grief is intensified by the fact that the hunters didn't even collect the ear to get the bounty on wolves.\n\nAfter burying her friend, Julie continues on alone until she comes to an Arctic town, called "Kangik." She hears that there is a great hunter there that seems to almost exactly match the description of her father. Going to see the hunter, she discovers that it is indeed her father, who didn't die, but instead abandoned her. Julie is happy, though, until she finds out not only that her father married a white woman named Ellen and adopted Western technology and customs, and plans on sending her to another western style school, he flew the plane that killed the wolves, and has apparently lost all respect for nature. Julie flees back to the wilderness, but when her pet tern dies shortly after she stops for the night, she heads back towards civilization, though she may have any one of several motives, as her reason for returning aren't explained.