Read the excerpt from The Call of the Wild. [Thornton] had a way of taking Buck's head roughly between his hands, and resting his own head upon Buck's, of shaking him back and forth, the while calling him ill names that to Buck were love names. What does the description in this excerpt help readers understand about Thornton? He is similar to other sled-dog owners. He is short-tempered with his dogs. He has a witty and fun personality. He has a playful and affectionate nature.

The description in the excerpt helps readers understand the following about Thornton:

D. He has a playful and affectionate nature.

Explanation:

"The Call of the Wild" is a novel by Jack London. The story is about a Buck, a dog that, being stolen from his family and his comfortable life, has to rapidly learn and adapt to his new and harsh life as a sled dog.

John Thornton is one of the men who become Buck's owner. However, unlike others who were willing to even beat Buck to death, Thornton has a playful and affectionate nature, as is revealed in the excerpt. Instead of regarding Buck as a "machine," just something to pull the sled from one place to another, Thornton truly sees Buck as the loving animal he is. He is kind to him. The excerpt describes one of these affectionate moments in which Thornton pets Buck and speaks to him lovingly, yet playfully.

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one thousand and one nights, also called the arabian nights is a collection of middle eastern tales compiled in arabic during the islamic golden age, dated from the 8th to the 14th century. this collection was compiled of largely middle eastern and indian stories with an uncertain date and autorship whose tales such as aladdin, ali baba and sinbad the sailor -these ones were the most popular ones, the ones that have almost become part of western folklore.

as in much medieval european literature, the stories contained in this collection are set within a frame story. its scene is central asia, as known as "the islands or peninsulae of india and china", where king shahryar kills his wife after discovering her infidelities and as well as any other who betrayed him.   then, loathing all womankind, he marries and kills his new wife each day until no more candidates could have been found. his vizier had two daughters, scheherezade and dunyazad. the elder one -scheherezade- having devised a scheme to save herself and the others insisted that her father needed to give her in marriage to the king. each evening, she used to tell a story leaving it incomplete and promising to finish it the following night. the stories kept the king very interested, so eager to hear evey ending of each story, that he puts off her execution from day to day and finally he decided to give up with his plan. these stories are contained within the collection of 1001 nights, the bulk of the text is in prose, although verse is usually used for songs and riddles to express better the heightened emotion of them.

the answer is "began" because it is a action that can be done