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Title: The Call of the Wild (Scholastic Classics) by Jack London, Avi ISBN: 0-439-22714-3 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: January, 2001 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.7 (10 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Call of the Wild
Comment: Call Of The Wild
Reading Call of The Wild taught me a very good lesson about the real world. That lesson was that you need a very big heart and lots of courage to survive. For example, when Buck the Dog and Main Character in this book gets stolen from his loving and warm family he has to go to the harsh, cold Alaskan Coast and try to survive the extreme differences from his home back north, indeed Buck is strong and he pursues the Call of the Wild and in this wonderful and dangerous trek Buck is sold to a careless owner then when taken out into the cold wild wolves attack and then it becomes a whole new war. Also, in this book as this amazing journey continues Buck's intelligence, courage, and strength turns him into a fearless leader and as the men ride along with Buck they become desperate and as I said before only the strong will survive.
Rating: 2
Summary: Not my type of genre
Comment: In the book Call of the Wild, Jack London inscribes about a dog, named Buck, who learns to subsist in the artic climates of the Yukon autonomously. The palpable theme of this book is survival. I am one of those people who abhor this kind of genre in a book. I did not find this book very gratifying for many other reasons besides this. Some sundry reasons are that Jack London skipped around a lot from one point to another. An example of this was in the ending of the book, after Buck mourns about the horrendous incident with John Thorton, then he suddenly reminds himself of the fellow wolf he had met before. After that, Jack London tells us how the Yeehat's tribe fears Buck. All of this blurs together making the book perplexing. I'm not really devoted to stories with a dog's perspective because we will never know what it is like to be a dog or any kind of animal. It's also very nauseating how London describes the fights of the dogs and how they die. Because of how Jack London depicts everything in each detail, it makes the story trifle monotonous and makes it seem very dawdling. Last but not least, I thought the beginning and ending was fairly depressing.
In the beginning of Call of the Wild, for four years, Buck abides with the prosperous Judge Miller. In this time people were captivating dogs, for the use for pulling sleds to go up north in search for gold. Judge Miller's gardener, Manuel, abducts Buck and sells him to Perrault and Francois because of his Chinese-lottery gambling problem. Perrault and Francois were one of those people who were going up north to peruse their dreams of becoming rich off of gold. They ad infinitum hit Buck with a club. Other dogs in the pack didn't accept Buck, especially Spitz, who was the lead sled dog. Ultimately, Buck and Spitz had an immense fight. Subsequently, Buck becomes the prime sled dog of the pack.
Just after Buck's triumph, Perrault and Francois sold Buck and the pack to Hal, Charles, and Mercedes. They also, treated Buck unfairly. These people were very callow. They habitually missed a trial and got lost. Then they had spotted where John Thorton was resting. By that time, Buck grew very fatigue. John Thorton saw how badly Buck was treated so he threatens Hal, Charles and Mercedes that if they hurt him again he'd kill them. So then, John Thorton takes Buck because Buck was very ailing and wanted to help him. They agreed in an unfriendly manner but in a matter of time, a calamitous event happens to Hal, Charles and Mercedes. It was good thing John Thorton took Buck away before something acute occurred to him.
Buck grew to esteem and feel affection for John Thorton. He never left him unaided. After when John Thorton slipped off the rock into the rapid river and Buck jumped in after him and saved him, more love grew between Buck and John Thorton. After an abysmal occurrence, Buck feels woeful but knows that life has to go on.
I counsel this book to people who relished Where the Red Fern Grows because of its depressing ending and its perspective on dogs, and My Side of the Mountain because of its akin theme, survival. If you do not enjoy forlorn books, animal perspectives, repulsive details, and slow-moving books, just as I, I do not recommend this book to you.
Rating: 5
Summary: Who Said That Southern Dogs Couldn't Pull Sleds?
Comment: The Call of the Wild is about this dog named Buck. Buck lived in a house, where he protected the kids and was his masters first dog. But Buck didn't stay there long, he was soon bought by a guy who wanted to sell him to dog sled pullers... since The Gold Rush was at full power right now, and the only way to travel around Alaska was with Sled Dog teams! Buck at first attacked the man, he didn't know what else to do! He was a southern dog... he knew nothing about the cub, the laws of the wild, or of the non comfurt of home!
At first, the gentlemen allowed Buck to do this, he was intrested in Buck's will, but then he knew Buck needed a lesson! He puleld out his cub and pounded Buck. Buck soon learned the un safety of the cub! He dared not attack this strange person when a cub was in hand! Soon Buck was sold off to a dog sled puller, he met many other dogs in the sled... he soon learned the most important law of the wild, To Kill or Be Killed! He learned that if the lead dog stole your food you better let him have it or else you could die!
Like I said, Buck was a southern dog, he did not adjust well to the wildness of Alsaka at first! He never ran as much as he did, and ate so little! Buck's weight soon dropped, he knew that he had to steal... no matter how bad it was, and stole he did!
Buck soon didn't like being not the leader, he WANTED to be the leader! So, like any dog would do, he toke on the leader... the next day the owner of Buck and the sled dogs found Buck... no leader! You put together the pieces! Now, it was long into the journey and Buck and his fellow teammates were worn out, but Buck put the sprit into his team... he MADE them run!
Buck soon experinced many many men... all he didn't quite love, intill he met John Thorton! John was one of those mircle men who toke in sick dogs! He soon met Buck and toke him in. Buck loved John Thorton... the man who loved him back, and did anything for him!
All in All, in the end Buck gets lured into the wildness... what? What happened? Read the book to find out!
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