... in Jack London's Call of the Wild and his absolute determination to survive and be the leader of the wolf pack, one comes to understand that a human being as well as an animal will do anything to go on, to endure - it is a natural instinct. Some people escape from what's holding ... them back in order to win. In Dave Pelzer's A Child Called It, Dave suffers from a childhood of complete despair and endless child-abuse. From being starved ... for ten consecutive days and stabbed in the stomach, to being forced ... of Water, Ruth McBride Jordan had a childhood without love. Her tyrannical ...

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• Grade Level: High School