The London Portrayals
A twig snaps to your left. You quickly turn, the wind passing through your hair. You see nothing but the trees’ shadows. Snap! Another twig, this time to your right, and once again you turn, but this time you see two wolves. They both howl, then jump. You fall to the ground, the wolves clawing at your very soul. Both the book The Call of The Wild, and To Build a Fire by Jack London, focus on dogs and large ideas. While both books focus on large, metaphorical ideas, they also have gross differences that make each story unique in its own way.
One of the largest ideas in both books is the ideas that man is weak, and dogs are much stronger. For example, take this line from The Call of The Wild, “The Yeehats tell of a Ghost Dog that runs at the head of the pack. They are afraid of this Ghost Dog, for it has cunning greater than they.”(London 138), which shows a dog being much stronger than themselves. Throughout the book, London …show more content…
You can see The Call of The Wild’s protagonist’s wild nature in this line, “But in spite of this great love he bore John Thornton, which seemed to bespeak the soft civilizing influence, the strain of the primitive… remained alive and active.”(London 96). This shows the main character struggles to remain with his master despite his great love for him. To Build a Fire’s depiction of a dog, however, could not be more different. “Then it turned and trotted up the trail in the direction of the camp it knew, where there were the other food-providers and fire-providers.”(London 8). This line shows that the dog relies on man, and so, when his old master dies, he leaves to find a new master. Although the dogs are very different in both books, so are the protagonist’s thoughts, which could not be more
A twig snaps to your left. You quickly turn, the wind passing through your hair. You see nothing but the trees’ shadows. Snap! Another twig, this time to your right, and once again you turn, but this time you see two wolves. They both howl, then jump. You fall to the ground, the wolves clawing at your very soul. Both the book The Call of The Wild, and To Build a Fire by Jack London, focus on dogs and large ideas. While both books focus on large, metaphorical ideas, they also have gross differences that make each story unique in its own way.
One of the largest ideas in both books is the ideas that man is weak, and dogs are much stronger. For example, take this line from The Call of The Wild, “The Yeehats tell of a Ghost Dog that runs at the head of the pack. They are afraid of this Ghost Dog, for it has cunning greater than they.”(London 138), which shows a dog being much stronger than themselves. Throughout the book, London …show more content…
You can see The Call of The Wild’s protagonist’s wild nature in this line, “But in spite of this great love he bore John Thornton, which seemed to bespeak the soft civilizing influence, the strain of the primitive… remained alive and active.”(London 96). This shows the main character struggles to remain with his master despite his great love for him. To Build a Fire’s depiction of a dog, however, could not be more different. “Then it turned and trotted up the trail in the direction of the camp it knew, where there were the other food-providers and fire-providers.”(London 8). This line shows that the dog relies on man, and so, when his old master dies, he leaves to find a new master. Although the dogs are very different in both books, so are the protagonist’s thoughts, which could not be more