The Call Of the Wild

In Jack London’s classic book The Call of the wild a major theme is kill or be killed. In the Beginning of the book, it is kill or be killed. First, Buck goes two days and nights without eating or drinking while being transported north, foreshadowing his toughness. Buck witnesses curly die. For example, curly loses a fight with a husky and is brutally slaughtered by the encircled group of huskies eagerly watching the fight. Sense buck witnesses curly’s death he learns the law of fang. Dolly…

In The Call of the Wild by Jack London the protagonist Buck, a strong and healthy dog, goes on adventure of his life. Buck’s mother, a Scotch Shepherd dog, and father, a gianormous St. Bernard, made the perfect lounge dog. Although loyal to the Judge, the owner of a nice piece of land called the Santa Clara Valley, Buck is dognapped in order to evolve into a fierce hunting machine. The antagonist of the story is a dog in the third chapter of the book. Spitz, a superior dog, is the leader of the…

One of the many themes in "Call of the Wild" is that only the fittest will survive in the wild. Many come prepared to the Klondike like John Thornton, but countless come with little knowledge and are unprepared like Hal, Charles, and Mercedes. It was obvious that the "Terrible Trio" were unprepared for the Klondike. They had a sled that was overweight which carried a tent that was dragged behind and large amounts of clothing and pots. John Thornton on the other hand came prepared, he…

narrative dialogic voice that humans have to understand and respect. Buck’s character reveals how this canine animal struggles to undermine and challenge not only the anthropocentric hegemonic discourse but also any other authoritative discourse among his wild…

“Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful”. In Jack London’s classic novel The Call of the Wild, Buck must adapt to overcome these challenges. Adaptability is essential for survival in Buck’s journey. At the beginning of the book, Buck has to adapt when he starts his journey. First, he has to adapt to the new weather. For example, Buck gets moved to Alaska. Since Alaska has much different weather than California, Buck must adapt to the change in…

Do you consider yourself to be a strong individual? I don’t mean strong physically, but rather mentally? If so you can probably relate to Buck. Buck is the main character in the story The Call of the Wild by Jack London. Buck is a pampered dog living in a California, but his pampered life doesn’t last. When Buck is stolen and sold into the Klondike he has some lessons to be learned and they better be quick. The theme of London’s novel is that when surviving becomes a struggle only the strong and…

Finally, permanent hopelessness causes individuals to develop an irrational thinking pattern which is the main factor that differentiates a human from an animal. David is finally captured by the people of the new civilization, and finds out that the Queen wants his death, since he is a survivor of the past. He is one of the “Gentiles” who made God angry and punish everyone else. While David is trying to escape his death, he begins to explain how, “For sometime [he] believed it was [him] who was…

Do you just love dogs? I mean, who doesn’t? If you do love dogs, then I recommend you read the novel The Call of the Wild by Jack London. The Call of the Wild is about a big, fluffy dog named Buck. It takes place in 1897 during the Klondike Gold Rush, when people from all places were heading to the Northland in hopes of striking it rich. Unfortunately for Buck, he was the kind of dog people were looking for to pull their dogsleds. As a result, he was taken from his sun-kissed home in California…

Call of the Wild by Jack London is a well written book. First the author writes using interesting vocabulary words, and writes in a way that makes you want to keep going. When the author wrote, When he flung himself against the bars, quivering and frothing, they laughed at him and taunted him. They growled and barked like detestable dogs, mewed, and flapped their arms and crowed (pg 33), I was anticipating what was going to happen next. Using descriptive language, it makes the book more…

The Call of the Wild revolves around the story of Buck, a St. Bernard, Scotch shepherd mix, who fights to survive in the unforgiving life of a sled dog. Kidnapped and beaten into submission, Buck learns quickly that these men are his masters and not his owners. The punishments are brutal but they don’t just some from those that own him now but even his sled dog teammates who teach him, in a less than sympathetic manner, how to work as a sled dog. Buck is quick to learn all the ways of a sled dog…