CALL OF THE WILD

JACK LONDON

• Author
• Born in San Francisco, California
• Atheists and Socialist
• Klondike Gold Rush

WORK AND PUBLICATION

• All Gold Canyon
• Love of Life
• To the Man on Trail
• White Fang
• To Build a Fire
• Odyssey of the North

Buck

Spitz

John Thornton

Hal

Mercedes

Charles

Judge Miller

Manuel

"Red Sweater Guy"

SETTING

• California
• Alaska and the Klondike Region of Canada
• 1890s

EXPOSITION

• Introduction of Buck
• Lives with Judge Miller, in the 1890's. "He ruled the estate. Here he was was born and he lived the four years of his life." (6)
• Buck gets sold
• Becomes a sled-dog
• Ends up in the Klondike Region

RISING ACTION

• Buck is sold to the man in the red sweater
• Buck is on a sled-dog team
• Spitz and Buck fight to the death
• Team is sold to Hal, Mercedes, and Charles
• John Thornton saves Buck

CLIMAX

• Yeehat Indians have taken over Buck and Thornton's camp
• Indians kill Thornton

FALLING ACTION

• Buck attacks the Yeehats
• He kills them
• Buck hears the call of the wild

RESOLUTION

• Buck goes into the wild
• Becomes leader of a pack of wolves
• Every year Buck mourns the death of his master John Thornton
• Buck becomes a legend
• "They are afraid of this Ghost Dog,...stealing from camps in fierce winters, robbing their traps, slaying their dogs, and defying their bravest hunter." (106)

THEMES

CONCLUSION

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