Compare And Contrast Call Of The Wild And To Build A Fire

Compare and Contrast of Call of the Wild and To Build a Fire To Build a Fire and Call of the Wild by Jack London . By evaluating the evidence and plot lines of both stories, it is easy to see that Jack London made the books very similar, but also different in their own unique ways. Call of the Wild and To Build a Fire have their differences with the point of views and repetition throughout the book, but their setting and perseverance are very prominent, and comparable, details. The Yukon Trail was a very crucial and popular way to travel through Canada back when these stories were set. In Call of the Wild, the scenery and place they describe is a town called Dawson, like on page one-hundred-five, Jack London wrote, “That winter, at Dawson, …show more content…
Call of the Wild, chapter three page thirty-three, Buck feels, “The dominant primordial beast was strong in Buck, and under the fierce conditions of trail life it grew and grew.” The quote from chapter three helps the reader better understand that throughout the plot line, buck has adapted to his daily procedures and recollected them. Differing from Call of the Wild, To Build a Fire’s repetition is much more prominent, in the sense that page one, paragraph three and four share the same excerpt, “Fifty degrees below zero…” Across the short story, you can read more and hear more about the temperature. According to "Keeping His Head": Repetition and Responsibility in London's "To Build a Fire", written by Lee Clark Mitchell, he states that Jack London uses repetition throughout most of his pieces, but Call of the Wild and To Build a Fire’s repetition are not the same, and try to convey different …show more content…
Evidence to prove that Call of the Wild’s protagonist, Buck, is a dog and the point of view is limited third person can be found throughout the book, especially in chapter one, like page one, “Buck did not read the newspapers….” which is a good hint that it will be about Buck’s thoughts. Unlike Call of the Wild, To Build a Fire is set in the point of view of a human and a dog as third person omniscient where you can have both characters thoughts. On page six, paragraph five, a glimpse of the dogs thoughts are shown through the quote, “Something was the matter, and its suspicious nature sensed danger,--it knew not what danger but somewhere, somehow, in its brain arose an apprehension of the man.” The dog is thinking for itself, not through the man's thoughts, but through its own. The differences between the two works by Jack London, help keep the different pieces unique and