The Gold Rush

only pick one.There are many great events in the call of the wild and many quotes to read that are related to the themes, mine is survival of the fittest. The Call of the Wild is written by Jack London an author who went to the Klondike in search of gold to help his family. The main character in the book is a dog named Buck who was born in California and was forced to go the Yukon to join a sled dog team. Then Buck retrogressed which made him acted like a wild a wolf. Buck learned…

Have you ever heard about a guy who fought a bear and lived to tell the tale?. That one person was Jedediah Smith. Fighting a bear was not the only thing he did, he also made many historic discoveries. These historic discoveries paid the way for settelers to move Far West and expand the American Dream. In the following we will explore Jedediah Smith discoveries and accomplishments through his lifetime. Jedediah Smith was born June 24, 1798 in Bainbridge New York. He was the first…

On a snowy mountain top, two hikers found a body sticking out of a glacier, the Iceman. Some archaeologists say he died in battle and some say from hypothermia, but no one knows the real cause of his death. The Iceman was a mummy, whose body remained preserved for 5,000 years in a glacier in the Alps. When he was found, his items from the Stone Age were laid around him. They found unfinished arrows, backpack, a copper axe, hay stuffed shoes, a dagger, and a phannie pack like pouch on his waist.…

He was a robust crossbreed living in the lap of luxury in California before being taken away and being sold into a horrid sort of “dog slavery.” He was beaten into the submission of man, after which I thought that Buck would try to make his way back to the Santa Clara Valley. He seemed to have evolved from a civilized pet into a dominant, savage, beast throughout his time in the Yukon. He adopted a cruel kill-or-be-killed way of thinking, which helped during his fight with Spitz. He ultimately…

Intelligent people don’t come around so often, but when they do we take advantage of their knowledge. Charles Darwin, English natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection once said, “ It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change”. Throughout the novel The Call of the Wild by Jack London, the main character Buck was the prime example of evolution throughout the novel. Going from a typical pampered house dog,…

“All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.” (Yann Martle) As the quote from Yann Martle shows above, you can tell that a major theme in Jack London's classic book Call of the Wild is that adaptability is essential for survival, which Buck goes throughout the whole story. At the beginning, buck has to adapt to the hostile…

“ And this was the manner of dog Buck it was in the fall of 1897, when the Klondike strike dragged men from all the world into the frozen North. But Buck did not read the newspapers, and he did not know that Manuel, one of the gardener’s helpers, was an undesirable acquaintance” (London 5). In the novel The Call of The Wild by Jack London, is a story about a strong dog named Buck who gets dognapped by a man named Manuel and gets sent on a ship called the Narwhal to the Klondike. He goes on an…

The wind howled as the fresh white snow swirled around him. Otzi, a 5’3 man with bright blue eyes had everything he could possibly need to survive in the vast Alp Mountains. He had his first aid kit and a fanny pack with him, prepared for any type of emergency. The fanny pack contained a fire kit, flint tools, a drill, and a sewing kit. After few hours of exploring, Otzi felt a really sharp pain in the side of his body. Using the needles from the sewing kit, he created acupuncture points to help…

Call of the Wild In the book The call of the wild, Buck must face that his new life in the wilderness is kill or be killed which he has to do throughout the entire book. First, Buck learns how to survive (what happens if you don’t kill). For example as soon as Buck gets there the white dog Spitz and another dog Curly are in a fight and Spitz ends up killing Curly.There are many dog fights and as soon as the dog loses its balance and goes down all the dogs go in and start eating the dog.…

Survival, the only reason we are here on this treacherous planet we inhabit. Survival can be the simplest task, or the most arduous struggle. Everyone has their own experience that entails them against the world, in a battle for their lives. There is no other man that knows this more than Hugh Glass. Hugh Glass was a nineteenth century frontiers men; who while searching for food was attacked by a mother grizzly bear protecting her cubs. Desperately trying to reach for his firearm, however he…