The Review of the Book 'The Call Of The Wild'
The author of the book I chose, Call Of The Wild, is Jack London. The main character of the book is a dog named Buck, a St. Bernard-Scotch Collie Mix. Buck is considered king of his home of dogs that all come and go. He was there since birth and technically does whatever he wants without question. The main antagonist is Spitz, a white-fur Husky, who constantly tries fights with Buck. A side character is Dave who worked on one of Bucks teams until he gets too weak and is put down. Another side character is Billie, a husky, who also gets worked to death. Joe, Billies brother, is the exact opposite of him and gets his act corrected until Buck becomes head of the team and sets him straight. The big characters that are humans are, Judge Miller, Bucks first owner before being kidnapped, Manuel a man who sells Buck to Klondike to pay off his debts from Chinese gambling. John Thorton, Bucks last owner who is killed by the Yeehats, and the Yeehats get threatened by Buck to stay out of the valley forever.
During the first few pages it describes how Buck lived with his owner Judge Miller and lives a life of total freedom, though this setting is not very important because he gets taken from here within the first 15 pages. He then gets moved from car to car, wagon to wagon, until he gets to Yukon where the rest of the book takes place. Buck then continues to move to a few different sled owners in chase of finding this new ore. This also takes place during the 1890’s. It takes place during the Klondike Gold Rush, where tons of people went to the North to gain from this gold find.
The main conflict of the story is at the beginning of the story where Buck follows the Judge's gardener Manuel on a walk where he gets taken to a stranger that double ties him with rope around his neck and kidnaps him, never to see Manuel or Judge again. Buck then gets taken to a crate and bites a man in the hand leaving him bleeding for the rest of the time he's in the book (a page or two). Buck continues to be moved around all over the place until finally making it to Yukon and then the story continues.
The books starts to resolve as Buck lives in Yukon, although he still gets into fights with Spitz many times throughout the rest of the story. He finally meets John Thorton who shows him love over everything but is sadly killed by the Yeehat Native American tribe that Buck hunts down to warn them on wreaking havoc in the valley.
Towards the end of the story, Buck finds a pack of timber wolves and decides to assert his dominance and gets to be the packs alpha leading them on to more wolf generations . One theme of the story is that the answer isn't always a limb for a limb, this is shown how even though the Yeehats killed Bucks beloved owner he still didn't kill any of them but did warn them to not do it again in future events.
