Call Of the Wild is a short adventure novel and set in Yukon, Canada during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The central character of the novel is a dog named Buck. The story opens at a ranch in the Santa Clara Valley of California when Buck is stolen from his home and sold into service as a sled dog in Alaska. He progressively reverts to a wild state in the harsh climate, where he is forced to fight to dominate other dogs. By the end, he sheds the veneer of civilization and relies on primordial instinct and learned experience to emerge as a leader in the wild.
One may say that McCandless’ violent childhood is what caused his downfall. McCandless may have even had the right idea, separating himself from his family, but due to his fragile state of mind he may have gone to too much of an extreme. He ended up taking the policies and principles of transcendentalism too far, which is really what resulted in his death. A concept that transcendentalism goes strongly against is materialism, a principle that may have saved his life. He was so anti materialistic in fact, that he refused to even have a phone or form of communication, this ultimately could have saved his life.
In the story “Your Move” by Eve Bunting the main character James' mother is gone at work and James sneaks out to join a club but soon realizes that he does not want to be in the club, which leads to my main point that James is protective over Issac and cautious as a brother. My first reason for how James is protective over Issac, one is when James brought Issac to join the club for safety issues, he wanted to be cool by joining the gang but they said “why did you bring this punk” and James responded back saying “I told you. I can’t leave him alone. What if something happened!”(3)
The readers can imagine the vivid landscape of the wild that Jack London describes in detail because he does such a good job at it. The beginning of the novel shows the most insight to London’s work of nature. London describes the importance of raw nature and its beauty and impact on life. This is what gets McCandless into the nature, and it influences him a lot to live by his words and the philosophies. London does a good job in describing in depth of how the wilderness looks like, going in detail to it.
More civilized dogs like Newfoundland’s and even huskies find primitive counterparts in the wolves whose howl at the end of the story was the very sound of the wild. London “doubles” the story into opposing worlds. Buck begins in the waking world of reality and ends in a silent, white wasteland which was also the world of dream, shadow, and racial memory. Buck survives to embrace life at the end of a book informed by death as the horrifying, rhythmic reflex of an entire order of things. Life in The Call of the Wild was a survival built on the death of other living creatures.
Mccandless was a young man. 23 years old to be precise he wasn't your the typical adult. He wanted to find himself and was on his own odyssey where he was the main protagonist. Some claim to have had the perfect childhood ,loving parents ,a happy home and whatever else they desired. Mccandless although he had many material possessions he did not find them to feel the void he had as a child.
Some of the stories he wrote were called The Call of The Wild, White Fong, and the Sea Wolf. At the age of twenty-seven, Jack London found success in the call of the wild, which was one of his last famous books. Jack London is often known for his personal exploits, which meant his personality as colorful and controversial. Between 1900 and 1916, Jack London completed
He had read Jack London’s “The Call of the Wild” and was so fascinated by what he had read. In the book Jon Krakauer claims that Christopher sometimes forgot the big picture. Krakauer states, “He was so enthralled by these tales he seemed to forget they were works of fiction” (Jon Krakauer Chapter 5). The author explains christophers thoughts on the book he had once read by Jack London. McCandless overlooked the harsh realities of the brutal Alaskan wilderness.
Both authors share similar views on closely related topics such competition and social order. In the novel, The Call of the Wild, Jack London illustrates the negative effects of competition through the characters Buck and Spitz, which correlates with the Rousseauian idea of detrimental social organization London presents through his characters Buck and Spitz that competition has the potential to be negative.
There is one name that has echoed down through the past century as one of he best, if not the best, authors of literary masterpieces. Jack London wrote many timeless classics that will echo down for generations as the best works in history. This diverse and interesting author was an American Pioneer in fiction; he engaged the reader in the themes of the wild against society and becoming strong through hardship, among others. He had personal experiences with these, from his travels in the wilderness to rising from waste to world-renowned. Jack London’s humble beginning, rise to fame, and brilliantly written pieces of writing all make up this incredibly complex American author.
The book that I chose to read is call Call of the Wild by Jack London who tells the story of a dog named Buck whose father was a Saint Bernard and mother who was a Scotch shepherd dog. Buck starts the story as a dog who is pampered and who lives life inside of a wealthy house in California, as the story progresses Buck learns how to become a hunting dog and learns how to survive in nature. Buck and the progression of his tendency to revert to the inner instincts of fierce violence and extreme competition The story begins at a wealthy neighborhood where Buck lives his owner Judge Miller is a well-respected and very wealthy Judge who lives in Santa-Clara Valley.
I read the book called The Call Of The Wild by Jack London. This book is a realistic fiction book. The things in the book could’ve happened but it doesn’t mean they did. The Call Of The Wild is important because it tells the story about the life of a dog named Buck who makes a long journey being a sled dog and how he reverts back to the way dogs used to be.
Call of the wild was one of the best books I ever read. It really changed my mind about the story. I did not like that John Thornton died; I think that that should be changed in the story and movie. Also I think the book should have gone on longer than I did. I also did not like when the first owners of the sled dogs would beat the poor things.
My opinion on the novel The Call of the Wild changed a lot through the story. The Call of the Wild was a pretty good book, but sometimes I did not understand why some things were happening. Throughout the whole book I only did not understand, or did not like a few things. I liked most of the parts so first i’ll tell you what i liked What I liked the most about The Call of the Wild was that John Thornton saved buck from Hal and Mercedes.
He quit and then studied hard to try to get accepted into the University of California at Berkeley. Due to low income London had to drop out after a semester. His brother- in- law invited him to join the Klondike Gold Rush in Yukon. Although they didn 't find gold, that experience made him realize the stories he could tell, and it became his inspiration to write The Call of the Wild. Jack London said, "Having decided that I was a failure as a writer, I gave it up and left for the Klondike to prospect for gold.
