Jack London's Call of the Wild classic fiction
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Of all of Jack London's books, why does this cross-bred dog story wind up his best?
About this book:
The Call of
the Wild is a novel by American author Jack London published in 1903.
The story is set in the Yukon during the 19th-century Klondike Gold
Rush—a period when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The
novel's central character is a dog named Buck, a domesticated dog
living at a ranch in California as the story opens. Stolen from his
home and sold into the brutal existence of an Alaskan sled dog, he
reverts to atavistic traits. Buck is forced to adjust and survive
cruel treatments, fight to dominate other dogs, and survive in a
harsh climate. Eventually he sheds the veneer of civilization,
relying on primordial instincts through lessons he learns, to emerge
as a leader in the wild.
London
lived for most of a year in the Yukon and gained from that experience
material for the book. The story was serialized in the Saturday
Evening Post in the summer of 1903; a month later it was released in
book form. The novel's great popularity and success made a reputation
for London. Much of its appeal derives from the simplicity with which
London presents the themes in an almost mythical form.
The story
opens with Buck, a large and powerful St. Bernard-Scotch Collie,
living happily in California's Santa Clara Valley as the pet of Judge
Miller. However he is stolen by the gardener's assistant and shipped
to Seattle. Put in a crate, Buck is unfed and beaten by the "man
in the red sweater". When released, he attacks the man but is
badly beaten and taught to respect the law of the club. Buck is then
sold to a pair of French-Canadian dispatchers from the Canadian
government, François and Perrault, who take him with them to the
Klondike region of Canada. There they train him as a sled dog. From
his teammates, he quickly learns to survive cold winter nights and
the pack society. A rivalry develops between Buck and the vicious,
quarrelsome lead dog, Spitz. Buck eventually beats Spitz in a fight
"to the death". Spitz is killed by the pack after his
defeat and Buck becomes the leader of the team.
The team is
then sold to a "Scottish half breed" man working the mail
service. The dogs must carry a heavy load to the mining areas, and
the journey they make is tiresome and long. Some of the dogs become
sickly and are shot.
Buck's next
owners are a trio of stampeders—Hal, Charles, and a woman named
Mercedes—inexperienced at surviving in the Northern wilderness.
They struggle to control the sled and ignore warnings that the spring
melt poses dangers. They overfeed the dogs and starve them when the
food runs out. On their journey they meet John Thornton, an
experienced outdoorsman, who notices that the dogs have been poorly
treated and are in a weakened condition. He warns the trio against
crossing the river, but they refuse his advice and order Buck to move
on. Exhausted, starving, and sensing the danger ahead, Buck refuses
and continues to lie unmoving in the snow... (source: Wikipedia)
About the author:
John
Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January
12, 1876 – November 22, 1916)was an American author, journalist,
and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of
commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers
to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction
alone. He is best remembered as the author of The Call of the Wild
and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the
short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the
North", and "Love of Life".[citation needed] He also
wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as "The Pearls of
Parlay" and "The Heathen", and of the San Francisco
Bay area in The Sea Wolf. (source: Wikipedia)
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