Read the excerpt from The Call of the Wild. From every hill slope came the trickle of running water,
the music of unseen fountains. All things were thawing,
bending, snapping. The Yukon was straining to break
loose the ice that bound it down... Air-holes formed
fissures sprang and spread apart.…. And amid all this
bursting, rending, throbbing of awakening life, under
the blazing sun and through the soft-sighing breezes,
like wayfarers to death, staggered the two men, the
woman, and the huskies.
The sensory details in this passage best help the
reader to imagine
O the harsh weather conditions of winter.
O the hardships of the humans and dogs.
O
the sense of hope that the characters feel.
O the sights and sounds of early spring.

Demonstrating understanding of jem's development one way to demonstrate understanding of character and theme is by writing from the perspective of a character. for this assignment, compose a short poem from the perspective of jem. your poem should detail his feelings about either a. his father, atticus or b. mrs. dubose. the poem must accurately trace the progression of jem's attitudes and beliefs, highlighting the important events and shifts in his perspective detailed above. your writing should also sound like jem, using voice and word choice that reflects the voice and word choice found in the novel. the poem can be a free poem (meaning it does not need to rhyme or follow a particular format). it should be a minimum of twenty-lines in length, have a title, and follow conventional rules of spelling, grammar, and punctuation.