The correct answer is Buck’s love for Thornton. There is bet placed about Buck’s strength, stating that he will not be able to pull a thousand pound sled. The amount is huge: 1600 dollars. Buck is able to do it and win the large amount for John Thornton. Although as a dog he really does not even know what is going on, his instinct tells him that accomplishing this task will please Thornton and because he loves him that makes him happy. This increases their bonding and loyalty to each other.
Answer: A. The real tree is more detailed and smells fresher than the plastic trees that line the streets.
The poem I have chosen is Small Dragon by Brian Patten.
The poem appeals to children's imagination to tell them about a dragon that the author has found in the forest. The author depicts the dragon. He says that it feds on many things like grass, roots of stars, hazel nut and dandelion. Then the author says the dragon made a nest among the coal not unlike a bird but larger. the author says that if you believed in it he would come hurrying to your house to let you share this wonder. In this way he leans on children's innocense to make them believe.
What I liked about this poem is that in a world in which children are treated like adults and they have to worry about life. In a world in which children are forced to work and they have to make a living, there is this dragon that appears in the forest. Thus the author appeals to the innocense of children to make them believe in a wonderful creature, in a wonderful life.
The quote that I like is
If you believed in it I would come
hurrying to your house to let you share this wonder,
Because that makes me think that there is a dragon, that there is a wonderlful creature in the forest. I just have to believe.
