The Wild Thesis

The Call of the Wild
The inspirational book, The Call of the Wild, published in 1903, was written by an audacious man, Mr. Jack London. Jack London’s book The Call of the Wild was the result of his adventures with his brother-in-law.

Jack London was born in San Francisco, California on January 12, 1897 as John Griffith Chaney. His Mother Flora Wellman was left by the father when she refused an abortion. Eight months later a widower with two daughters, John London, became Jack London’s father and was given his surname. At the age of nine he moved to Oakland, and was counted on to pick up a job and help the family. He dropped school after grammar school to fully commited to work. In his teenage years he had many jobs including newspaper boy,

After They overload the do sled, beat the dogs half to death , and forget to plan an adequate amount of food. About halfway through their journey, they begin to run out of food and starve; nine of the fourteen dogs die of starvation. They then stumble upon a camp put up by a man named John Thornton. He tells them that the ice is too thin to travel but they don’t listen. This causes a fight and for John to cut Buck free for preventing them from going onto the ice. They soon after fall through the ice and Buck takes up residence with Thornton. Bucks love for Thornton grows quickly, and this gives him the ability to do many things for Thornton including saving his life from drowning in a river, detracting a man in a bar fight, and pulling a half a ton load for a wager. Buck though is growing more wild everyday which becomes more visible throughout the reading when Buck, Thornton, and some other men set out in search of a mine. Buck starts wandering around and making friends in the forest. Until one day he comes back to find that his master, Thornton, was killed by a tribe of Indians. This is when Buck truly becomes wild; the only thing still holding him to civilization is him visiting Thorntons grave every year to mourn for his master 's death. The Yeetah, the Indian tribe that killed Thornton, started making stories of Buck calling him the ghost dog.

John London’s writing style in The Call of the Wild was through a narrative perspective point of view. The narrative Perspection is given in third person in The Call of the Wild it is given to you by Buck, a dog that is half St. Bernard and half sheepdog. Stevenson’s narrative perspective can be seen here in this text lifted from The Call of the