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Brief Summary Of Jack Buck's Into The Wild

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This story is about a half St. Bernard, half sheepdog named Buck, who lived on a farm in California, until one day he was kidnapped and sold to dog traders to match the growing need for sled dogs to try to find gold. These dog traders beat him and cursed him until they broke his ways and proved their point. The traders put Buck in a crate and sent him by rail road to a couple of mail carriers working for the government, Perrault and Francois. When Buck arrives at Canada, he is surprised by the cold weather and harsh environment created by the other sled dogs in the area. Curly, another dog bought by the mail carriers, stepped off the ship and was immediately met by a huskie who wanted to fight him. Buck was curiously standing by as his new friend was brutally killed by a large group of these dogs. This sight scarred Buck, as he promised himself that that would never be in the same situation. Perrault and Francois and the other dog owners broke up the fight and eventually set up camp for the night. The next morning the two mail carriers and their team of dogs set out for their first trip. Buck, the newcomer, picked up the art of dog sledding very quickly, along with the help of his fellow teammates. Buck found it hard to live in the cold climates of the North. The other dogs weren’t very helpful in this …show more content…

Buck loved him so much that he saved John from drowning in a river, killed a man who started a fight, and won a $1,600 bet for him. However, as strong as Buck’s love was for John Thornton, his call to the wild was stronger. This led Buck on an adventure for many days deep into the woods with a newly befriended timber wolf. When he eventually returned home, he had found that Indians had killed all the dogs and people. Enraged, Buck went on a killing spree, driving back the Yeehat Indians. Mourning his loss, Buck returns to the woods to answer the call of the wild, becoming a primordial

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Then he come across an advertisement from an old magazine. After he sees the ad he saves up money by doing odd jobs to get the hounds. After a lot of months of saving. He asks his grandpa to order them and weeks of waiting the note comes in to tell them where they are. Billy couldn't wait a few more days to get them, so he goes out6 by himself to get them after that he trains the dogs every day for the contest.

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Charles whipped Buck as he struggled being the lead dog. Charles was headed to Dawson with six of his dogs, his wife, and his brother-in-law. They stopped as they saw a man. All the dogs fell to their back in tiredness and starvation. the man introduced himself to them as John Thornton.

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“Men have found gold in the artic and they wanted dogs. Not any kind of dogs but strong dogs that were able to carry sleds through the freezing cold.” Buck the dog lived in Santa Clara Valley in a giant house. The name of the house he lived at was called Judge Miller’s place. The house was a beautiful large house that was surrounded by porches and a long driveway.

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Buck’s great genes and extensive training have allowed him to become more agile than any foe he is pitted against. So when Jack London is talking about Buck fighting a pack of wolves he say “he was everywhere at once” meaning that buck is so quick to strike that there is nowhere that the wolves aren’t vulnerable. The inclusion of this hyperbole gives us a sense of how Buck has evolved from a simple house dog to a wild killer of great strength.

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In the novel, The Call Of The Wild, by Jack London, Buck is a domesticated dog adapting and trying to survive in the wild. The topic in this novel is perseverance since the author constantly provides many hints throughout the novel that proves that the topic in this novel is perseverance. It can be seen during the time Buck perseveres in trying to adapt to his situation and understanding his surroundings. Also, when he preservers through all the pain and suffering that is constantly leaking around him and Buck is sometimes rewarded for persevering through the hardships that follow day by day. Thus the theme in the book is in order to be rewarded, one must persevere.

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Although both “A Schedule for Learning” by Ch’eng Tuan-li and the “Method of Lecturing in the Liberal Arts,” had the same objective of finding the best way to improve education, it seems as if they both share key differences in accomplishing this goal. Not only did gender, class, and the technology available play a major role in who and how the people were being educated, but also in the way in which each society approached education as a whole. In the end, it would appear as if the Chinese set a much more important standard on education than their medieval counterparts, not only affecting their scholarly life, but their virtues, and lifestyle as well. Like in today’s world, the quality of education varies from community to community. This

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In literature, there are an abundant amount of themes and life lessons written in between the lines of every individual piece of work. In some works of literature, there are even various themes being displayed throughout a single book’s story line. In the story, Into the Wild, John Krakauer writes about a boy named Christopher McCandless. McCandless is a boy who aspires to attain more in life than just materialistic values. Since McCandless grew up in a fairly wealthy family, he already experienced living a materialistic life.

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As Jim Rohn once said, “It is not what happens that determines the major part of your future... it is what you do about what happens that counts.” Buck, the main character in the novel The Call of the Wild, is a victim of life 's many unexpected obstacles. From domesticated and tamed to wild and primitive, the transformation of Buck from beginning to end is a result of nature and nurture combined. Nature, his genetic makeup, proves to be the most dominant in his development of becoming a free creature of the wilderness.

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Buck had to grow a new backbone for the way of living in the Klondike Gold Rush. He had to set his mind to a new state, a new mode for the rural conditions he would be facing. He had to adapt to the new society of a sleigh dog. Buck adapted and learned the same life and lived a life like a wolf.

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From this you can see that the man and dog share many different and similar thoughts on their journey through the Yukon Trail. The man and dog think differently in some situations like when the man or chechaquo(New comer) was trying to kill the dog. The man and dog also think similarly in other situations like, they both have the same idea of survival. For example, the man and dog both think the same about the fire. Therefore, the man and dog have different and similar thoughts while strugglings to get to the other side of camp were the boys

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Coming in the novel, John dies and Buck becomes the leader of a wolf pack. Buck visits John’s death site everyday to remind him of who saved his life when he really needed it. The book shows that there is a connection between dogs and

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Every day the dogs must have to carry heavy ass loads to the mining areas were all the miners are working and the journey just to reach these mining areas is very tiresome for the dogs also it is a very long journey. One of the dogs was a husky named Dave; Dave ends up becoming very ill and eventually has to be shot in the head just to take him out of his misery. Buck ends up getting new owners once again and was a trio of stampeders who were not experienced with surviving in the wilderness. The trio struggled to control the sled and just plain ignored all warning that the spring poses danger. They would always overfeed the dogs and then when they would run out of food they would just starve the dogs.

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Buck is being called into the wild. His life events changed who he was and sent him free in spirit and body. Once Thornton was kill Buck was able to be free and just be a wild dog with the others (napierkowski). In my opinion, this book shouldn’t have been in the category of banned and challenged books.

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In the novel of the Call of the Wild, Buck tried to adapt to his new and difficult life. He was forced to help the men find gold; he experienced a big transformation in him. At the end, he transformed into a new and different dog. Buck went through physical, mental and environmental changes. In my essay, I talked about how Buck was like at the beginning, what he changed into, and how he was forced to adapt his new environment, and underwent these changes.

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More characters of this story would be Spitz, the dog-sled leader that didn’t like Buck and died to him after trying to kill him. Another character would be Curly, a dog who took a liking to Buck ,but in the end died to mysterious odds. Some themes associated with the story are Primitivity, Knowledge and Wisdom, Suffering, and Perseverance. (Shmoop Editorial Team) The call of the Wild being a good book also had some controversies.

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