CALL OF THE WILD

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

John Griffith Chaney "Jack London" was born in San Fransisco, California on January 12th 1876. Jack London was a novelist, journalist, short story writer and a social activist. Jack London was a part of a literary group called "Th Crowd" in San Francisco. Jack London wrote many different kinds of books like his dystopian novel, called "The Iron Heel". Also a non-fiction book, called "The people of the Abyss". Some of his most famous novels are, Call of the Wild, White Fang, To Build a Fire and Love of Life. Jack London died on November 22nd 1916. Age 40 Glen Hellen California.

SUMMARY OF THE BOOK

The story starts with a dog buck living on a big farm house type area with a judge and his sons. He was kidnapped by one of the worker who then sold him to a man in a red sweater. The man in the red sweater had a limp and didn't speak very well. Buck the dog was then put on a ship and sailed in cages to Alaska . There he was sold along with many other dogs to men. Where they were then beaten when for acting out and trained to pull sleigh. Buck was put into a sleigh dog team which was pulled by a man who grew to be fond of buck. He was then worked so much that he had lost many pounds the other dogs also lost much weight. They were mail dogs buck was now falling out of line and was taken out. A couple and their brother took buck and added him to there sleigh team. They did not have enough food to feed the dogs the had their load was tipped over and the dogs ran off. The villagers help pick up there food and gave them advice to lose some of the load and add more dogs so they did. The dogs are getting weak and dyeing. They come across a cabin with a man named John Thornton. Buck falls and is getting beaten for not getting back to his feet. John jumps in the way and takes him off of the line and leave him. They continued on their path without buck and passed on a lake which broke. Killing them and their dogs. Buck develops love for John. John bets Money with a rich man. That Buck can't pull out the sled and 1000 pounds. Buck pulled it and won money. John was more rich and was able to pay his depts, and with the rest of the money he decided to purchase a dog team and go after a lost mine. They find a mine with lots of gold in it and start to mine it. Buck, since he couldn't help with the mining, started going out into the woods on adventures. He started heard a call coming from the woods, the call of the wild. He begins to stay out in the woods for days at a time, slowly becoming the most powerful beast in the forest. One day, he meets a lone wolf going back to his pack. He befriends the wolf and follows him for a while. He continues to hunt many wild beasts in an attempt to increase his strength, and after a few out in the forest, he returned to a horrible sight. Natives had attacked the camp and killed everyone there, even John Thornton. In a fit of rage, buck kills all of the natives and goes on a search to see if John Thornton was really dead. He finds him and, no longer bound by humanity, joined the pack of the wolf which he had found days before. From that day on, The natives in the area made stories of an evil spirit who roamed around an area of the region, and they never returned to that place ever again.

MAIN CHARACTER

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• Buck

MAIN THEME

You can always find inner strength to survive tough situations

EXAMPLES FOR THE THEME

• "He was beaten (he knew that); but he was not broken. He saw, once for all, that he stood no chance against a man with a club. He had learned the lesson, and in all his after life he never forgot it. That club was a revelation. It was his introduction to the reign of primitive law, and he met the introduction halfway. The facts of life took on a fiercer aspect; and while he faced that aspect uncowed, he faced it with all the latent cunning of his nature aroused"

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• It was an old song, old as the breed itself -one of the first songs of the younger world in a day when songs were sad. It was invested with the woe of unnumbered generations, this plaint by which Buck was so strangely stirred. When he moaned and sobbed, it was with the pain of living that was of old the pain of his wild fathers, and the fear any mystery of the cold and dark that was to them fear and mystery. And that he should be stirred by it marked the completeness with which he harked back through the ages of fire and roof to the raw beginnings of life in the howling ages

CONNECTIONS

CONNECTIONS

• There's a great power sleeping inside of you, but it's up to you to bring it out. Rely on it, if you can do that I guarantee you'll live through this. I know you don't believe but you already have everything you need to survive" - Piccolo, episode 7, Dragon Ball Z

CONNEctions CONTINUED

• "I don't know if I can make it on my own out here, but I'll try, I will try" -Gohan, episode 9, Dragon Ball z

SYMBOLISM

The club symbolizes a life long lesson and a figure of authority.

Examples
"He was beaten(he knew that);but he was not broken. He saw once and for all,that he stood no chance against a man with a club. He had learned the lesson,and in all his after life he never forgot it."pg.11

FORESHADOWING

Example
"Where upon the old wolf sat down, pointed nose at the moon and broke out in a long wolf howl. The others sat down and howled. And now the call came to Buck in unmistakeable accents."pg.108

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