Call Of The Wild

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Pedro Rosales
Period 4

Call of the Wild
By Jack London

The Call of the Wild is a novel by Jack London published in 1903. The story is set in the Yukon during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, a period when strong sled dogs were in high demand. People would do anything for dogs back in the Gold Rush days in the Klondike. People would kill and just basically anything possible to get a good sled dog. This story is basically on a sled dog and his journey to the Klondike.
The story begins with buck he is the dog in the novel Buck is a Saint Bernard. Buck use to live in Santa Clara, California. Buck ended up being stolen by the Gardner’s assistant and was sold because of a gambling addiction buck ended up in Seattle. From their Buck is sold to some …show more content…

Every day the dogs must have to carry heavy ass loads to the mining areas were all the miners are working and the journey just to reach these mining areas is very tiresome for the dogs also it is a very long journey. One of the dogs was a husky named Dave; Dave ends up becoming very ill and eventually has to be shot in the head just to take him out of his misery. Buck ends up getting new owners once again and was a trio of stampeders who were not experienced with surviving in the wilderness. The trio struggled to control the sled and just plain ignored all warning that the spring poses danger. They would always overfeed the dogs and then when they would run out of food they would just starve the dogs. Through their journey they meet a guy named John Thornton, an experienced outdoorsman, he notices that the dogs have been mistreated and just never fed and in very weak condition. He warns the trio that crossing the river can be very dangerous but the trio refuses his advice and order buck to move on. Buck is very exhausted and just starving to death but he can also sense that there is danger up ahead and just ends up laying down on the ice. Buck was beaten for his actions by Hal but Thornton realizes that Buck is a amazing dog. Thornton is just disgusted by the way the owners are treating the dog so he stops Hal from beating Buck by grabbing his arm and

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