Students’ Questions about Literature Page 9

The author of the call of the wild describes bucks progress as retrogression because it is a story about a dog who is learning to adapt to the wild and is slowly losing the habits and characteristics of a domesticated animal.

The book is set in the late 1800s on Prince Edward Island in Canada.

The book was banned because it was thought to be obscene and vulgar.

Jacky Bast was a young man who was in love with Margaret Schlegel. He died young, before he and Margaret could be together.

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is a grim portrait of what life was like in a Soviet forced labor camp. The novel follows a day in the life of Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, a prisoner in a Gulag labor camp during World War II.

Scheherazade tells her husband a story each night because she is trying to save her life. She hopes that by telling him a story, he will be so interested that he will want to hear the end, and she will live to see another day.

Faust was sentenced to death, but was saved by Kyrie and has been living with her ever since.

The book is about two teenagers who meet and fall in love while struggling with mental illness.

Theseus is the Duke of Athens and is getting married to Hippolyta.

The Catcher in the Rye is a novel by J. D. Salinger. The novel follows Holden Caulfield, a teenager from New York City, who is expelled from his prep school and then takes a journey around America.