Call Of The Wild Essay

The Call of the Wild by Jack London, is a story about Buck, a huge, four-year-old half-Saint Bernard and half-Scottish shepherd dog, Who is living a life in California's Santa Clara Valley owned by the town’s judge, Judge Miller. Buck’s life in Santa Clara is the best life a dog could be given in his point of view. For Judge Miller, Buck is the most prized animal that the Judge owns. Currently while Buck is living his, as he says, “sun-kissed” life, gold is discovered in the North in Alaska, and large dogs suddenly become super valuable because these types of dogs are needed to haul the heavy sleds through the vast, snowy mountains and wastelands of Alaska. This book is a realistic fiction, for these characters never existed, but real events could’ve taken place. This book is important because it shows how life was for sled dogs in the vast, freezing, tundras and mountains of Alaska on the hunt for gold.

This book begins to take place in the big home of Judge Miller in Santa Clara, California. It stood back from the road, half hidden from the trees. A graveled drive which wound about the lawn and ran down to the house. There were many orchards with berry patches, grape arbors, pastures, and an orderly array of outhouses. The story is told in first person, from Buck’s …show more content…
Buck, a powerful dog, half St. Bernard and half sheepdog, lives on Judge Miller’s property in California’s Santa Clara Valley. He has a comfortable life there, but it comes to a close when lots of people discover gold in the Klondike region of Canada and strong dogs are needed to pull sleds. Buck is abducted by a gardener who worked for Judge Miller and sold to dog traders, who teach Buck to obey by beating him with clubs and ship him north to the Klondike. Arriving in the harsh climates of the North, Buck is amazed by the cruelty he sees around him. The story goes on with the deaths of many sled dogs and being traded many times with other sled