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The Call of the Wild

 

By Jack London 

 

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edited by Luke Bennett-Fieman)

 "Old longings nomadic leap,

 

Chafing at custom's chain;

 

Again from its brumal sleep

 

Wakens the ferine strain."

 

(This quote is found on the first page of The Call of the Wild)

(brumal: hibernation during the winter)

(ferine: wild)

 

Summary: This novel is a captivating story

about a dog, Buck, that was

captured from his sunny California home to be sold to miners searching for gold in Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush.  The story revolves around his day to day life living in a hostile place where dogs steal each other's food, fight to the death, and have trainers that beat them.  He becomes a sled dog for a mail carrier, and has to pull the sled many miles everyday.  He soon finds that the meager rations he gets every day are not enough to keep up his energy because he is such a big dog.

 

 

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The Call of the Wild is available in both hardcover and paperback, and it is also  available on CD.  The Call of the Wild was made into a movie in the year 2000.                                                                                                

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The town of Oakland, California has surrounded themselves with Jack London, such as a Jack London Square, a Jack London Street and several buildings with plaques attached commemorating Jack London. And on your way there you pass Jack London Village, a sleepy little settlement of five houses that boasts a beautiful water mill, a restaurant, and the famous Jack London Bookstore.

 

 

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Personally, I thought The Call of the Wild was an excellent book about the survival of a pampered dog in the Canadian Wilderness.  The book has a very interesting plot, about how Buck feels the call of the wild, while living in Canada.  I was always thinking about the next time I would be able to read the book next.  The ending of the book was especially surprising, and it tied the book together perfectly.

 

If the book gets confusing, you can log into this discussion guide, where you can post a question about the book.

 

 

If you like The Call of the Wild, you will also like White Fang by Jack London. 

 

 

This is a summary provided by Bibliomania.com:

White Fang was published in 1906, two years after The Sea-Wolf and three years after the novel to which it is effectively its sequel (The Call of the Wild). Like that book it is concerned with the adventures of a canine rather than a human hero. In White Fang we follow the offspring of an Indian wolf-dog and a wolf. White Fang, this crossbreed, grows up to be the greatest fighter known and - drawn to the ways of the Wild - he responds to vicious behaviour with violence and savagery of his own, following the laws of mimicry enforced by danger and hostility. Yet he is humbled by Grey Beaver and in time and with the intervention of humans he is given the opportunity to respond appropriately to kindness instead of the anger that has trapped him after every conflict.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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