Summary Of Brian's Winter And Call Of The Wild

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The Excerpts Brian's Winter and And Call Of The Wild are both based on surviving.They are both at one point come across a point in their life where thing are not so easy for them especially in the woods .
First off the excerpt Brian's Winter Brian is sleeping and thinks he is dreaming and in reality there is actually a back end to a bear in his face.” Oh maybe if i kick it i will yonder of”.Well not for the bear.In one sweep the bear takes the log off of the camp.The second sweep knocked brian twenty feet into the air and back into the pondlaying at the edge. The bear says to himself well their is nothing to their and i already been there so he wandered off in the mysterious woods.The only enemy brian had was himself he thought to himself.

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