The Call Of The Wind

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THE CALL OF THE WILD​

1) PRESENTATION OF THE STORY

a) Where Does The Story Take Place?
The story takes place in north of Canada.

b)When Does The Story Take Place?
The story takes place in1897.

c) Who Are The Main Characters?
Buck is the main character.

2) THE SUMMARY OF THE STORY
Buck lived in Mr. Miller’s big house in the sunny Santa Clara valley. Buck was chief dog; he was born here, and this was his place. He was four years old, weighed sixty kilos and big, strong dog. He goes walking and swimming with the children, and sits by his owner’s fire in the winter.

This was 1897, and dogs like Buck are needed in the Yukon, where men have found gold. So Buck is stolen from his home and taken north. Perrault and François bought Buck. Buck worked like a horse, pulling François on a sledge. There he learns how to pull a sledge, traveling day after day over the frozen snow. He learns how to steal food, how to break the ice in water holes, how to fight the other dogs when they attack him. Perrault and François liked him. Thus he was lead-dog. His team in Sol-leks, Dave, Pike, Dub and Joe and they pulled sledge a lot of hundred kilometers.

Afterwards another men bought him and his team. It was heavy work; the sledge was loaded with letters for the gold miners of Dawson. Buck did not like it, but he worked hard, and made the other dogs work hard, too. Each day was the same. They started early, before it was light, and at night they stopped and camped and the dogs ate. For the dogs this was the best part of the day, first eating, then resting by the fire.
Sometimes as he lay there, he seemed to see, in a waking dream, a different fire. And he saw next to him, not the Indian cook, but another man, a man with shorter legs, and longer arms. This man had long hair and deep eyes, and made strange noises in his throat. He was very frightened of the dark, and looked around him all the time, holding a heavy stone in his hand. He wore the skin of an animal on his back, and buck could see thick hair all over his body.
Buck sat by the fire with this hairy man, and in the circling darkness beyond the fire he could see many eyes, the eyes of hungry animals waiting to attack. And he growled softly in his dream until the Indian cook shouted, “Hey, Buck, wake up!” Then the strange world disappeared and Buck’s eyes saw the real fire again.

Two American men, called Hal and Charles, bought Buck and his team, together with the harness. They took the dogs back to their untidy camp, where a woman was waiting. This was Mercedes, Charles’s wife and Hal’s sister. They put a lot of things on the sledge. The dogs pulled as hard as they could, but the sledge did not move. Hal used his whip. But Mercedes stopped him.
Hal tried again, but this time he broke the ice under the sledge. The heavy sledge started to move slowly, Buck and his team pulling hard under the whip. Hal stopped them, and bought six more dogs, so they now had fourteen. But the new dogs were not real sledge-dogs and they knew nothing about the work. Then they pulled the sledge. The six new dogs, now weak and ill from hunger and hard work, died next.
One day Billee fell and could not stand up. Hal killed him and threw him into the snow. On the next day Koona died, and there were only five dogs left: Joe, Pike, Sol-leks, Teek, and Buck.
It was beautiful spring weather. The ice were melting, the plants were growing. The two men, and the five dogs pulling Mercedes on the sledge, came into John Thornton’s camp at White River. John Thornton was mending an axe, and he went on working as the talked to Hal. He didn’t want Hal to rides sledge on ice because ice was too thin. But he picked up his whip, and started the sledge. But Buck didn’t get up. Sol-leks stood up slowly, then Teek and Joe, and finally Pike. But Buck stayed where he was. The whip came down on him again and again. Thornton started to speak, then stopped, and began to walk up and down.
Then suddenly, with a wild cry, John Thornton jumped on Hal, throwing him backwards. He wanted Hal to stooped. Hal didn’t want to fight, and Buck was not worth fighting for; he was nearly dead. Hal started the sledge and went down towards the river. Suddenly the back of the sledge went down and the front went up into the air. Mercedes screamed, and Charles turned and took one step back. Then a big piece of ice broke off, and dogs, sledge and people disappeared; there was only a big hole in the ice. Buck liked John Thornton.
John Thornton had other two dogs, which were Skeet and Blackie. Now spring had come, and he was almost well. John lay in the sun by the river with Buck, watching the water and listening to the birds, slowly getting stronger and stronger. Blackie, too, was friendly, and as Buck grew stronger, three dogs often played games together. Sometimes Thornton joined the games too.
The days passed very happily, and for the first time, Buck learned to love. He had never loved a man before. John Thornton had saved his life, but he was also a man who was naturally kind to animals. Buck liked to take Thornton’s hand gently in his mouth.
Something was changing in Buck. He had lived in the north along time now, and he was almost a wild dog. He was happy to sit by Thornton’s fire, but he sat as a wild animal, and his dreams were filled with other animals – dogs, half-wolves, and wild wolves. They seemed to call him into the forest, and sometimes Buck wanted to leave the fire and answer the call. But every time he went into the trees, his love for Thornton brought him back.
Thornton had two friends, Hans and Pete. Thornton’s life was saved by Buck twice. Buck’s name became famous all over the north. It was also very helpful to the three men. They wanted to make a journey to look for gold in the east, and they needed money. They were in a bar one day when some of the to talk about dogs which was strong. Thornton knew Buck was strong, but was he strong enough? Now ten men were watching him and waiting. He didn’t have a thousand dollars, and neither did Hans or Pete. One man went up to Thornton. He wanted buy him and he gave Thornton eight hundred dollars for him. Thornton shook his hand and sat down on the snow next to Buck. He held Buck’s head in his hands and spoke slowly into his ear, talked to him.
Buck pulled the right, hard, stopped suddenly, and the ice under the sledge began to break. Buck threw himself against his harness, and pulled. Harder and harder he pulled. Suddenly, the sledge moved little and little, it started to go forward across the snow. With each second it went a little faster and he pulled the sledge towards the end of the hundred metres. The watching men were shouting and throwing their hats in the air; Buck had won.
Then Thornton was on the snow next to Buck again, talking o him, and Buck had Thornton’s hand in his teeth. In five minutes Buck had made fourteen hundred dollars for Thornton and his friends.
Thornton, Pete and Hans, with Buck and six other dogs, started off to the east in the spring. They did not move quickly; the weather was good, and the men shot animals for food when they needed it.
In the autumn they came to a strange, flat country, with many lakes. They traveled on through the winter and met nobody, but once they found an old wooden house, with an old gun in it.
The spring came, as he sat, he saw again his dream world, where the strange hairy man sat next to him. He also heard something calling him into the forest. Sometimes, in the middle of the day, he lifted his head and listened, and then ran off into the forest.
One night he woke up and heard the call again, along howl. He ran into the forest, following the sound, and came to an o0pen place in the trees. And there, his nose pointing to the sky, sat a wolf.
The wolf stopped howling and Buck walked slowly towards him. The wolf ran, and Buck followed. After a time, the wolf stopped and waited, watching Buck, ready to attack. But Buck did not want to fight, and soon the wolf realized this, and the two animals became friendly. Then the wolf started to run again, and he clearly wanted Buck to follow him. They ran for hours through the forest, and Buck remembered again his dream world where he, and others like him, had run through a much older forest.
Then they stopped to drink, and Buck remembered John Thornton. He turned and started to run back. The f followed him, then stopped and howled, but Buck ran on and did not turn. Buck for two days never left John side. After two days the call of the wild came again, and he remembered the forest and the wolf who had run beside him.
He started t sleep out in the forest at night, sometimes staying out for three or four days. Once he was away for a week, fishing and killing animals for food.
In the autumn, Buck started to see moose in the forest. Buck followed him for four days. At the end of the fourth day Buck pulled the moose down and killed him. He stayed by the dead animal for a day and a half, eating, and then turned towards camp and John Thornton.
Five kilometers from the camp, he smelt something strange. Something was wrong. He started to run. After a few hundred metres he found the dead body of Blackie, with an arrow in his neck. Then he saw the body of Hans, lying on his face, with ten or fifteen arrows in his back. Buck was suddenly filled with a wild, burning anger.
The Yeehats were dancing around the camp. Buck attacked to Yeehats then Yeehats were running, wild with fear, back to the forest. Buck return to the camp. He found Pete, killed in his bed. He followed Thornton’s smell to a deep pool, and found Skeet lying dead by the edge. All day Buck stayed by the pool or walked restlessly round the camp. But when the evening came, he heard new sounds from the forest; the wolves had come south for the winter, and were moving into Buck’s valley. They came into the camp in the moonlight, and Buck stood silently, waiting for them. Suddenly. The bravest wolf attacked to Buck. In second, Buck had bitten, and then stood still again. The wolf was dead him. Three more wolves attacked to him, and were killed. Then one wolf moved forward slowly, in a friendly way; it was the wolf that Buck had met before in the forest. They touched noses. Then another wolf came forward to make friends, and another. Soon the pack was all around Buck, and the call of the wild was loud in Buck’s ears. And when the wolves moved on, back into the forest, Buck ran with them, side by side.
That perhaps the end of Buck’s story but after a few years, the Yeehats noticed that some of the wolves had golden-brown in their grey coats. They also talked of a Ghost Dog that ran at the head of the pack.
And sometimes men were found dead, killed by the teeth of a terrible animal. And each autumn, when the Yeehats follow the moose, there is one valley that they will not go into.
In the summers there is one visitor to that valley: a large, golden-brown wolf, larger than any other wolf. He walks alone round the lake where the yellow gold shines in the water, and howls. But he is not always alone. In the long winters nights, he runs at the head of the wolf pack through the moonlight, calling into the night with them, singing a song from a younger world.

3) THE CHARACTER ANALYSIS

a)Strong Characters:
Buck;
He was a dog. But Buck was too strong, too clever and too quick for them all.

b)Weak Characters:
Mr. Miller;
He was a person who was Buck’s first owner. He had a big house, really very a big house.
François and Perrault;
They were a people who were Buck’s first trainer. Buck loved them.
Charles and Hal;
They were two American men who were Buck’s bad owner.
Mercedes;
She was Charles’s wife and Hal’s sister. She loved dogs.
John Thornton;
He was a person who was Buck’s last owner and last loved man. He was killed by the Yeehats.
Hans and Pete;
They were Thornton’s best friends.
Sol-leks, Pike, Dave, Dub and Joe;
They were dogs that were Buck’s team. He loved them but they were killed by Charles.
Skeet and Blackie;
They were Thornton’s other dogs. They were killed by Yeehats, too.

4) THE THEME

When men find gold in the frozen north of Canada, they need dogs – big, strong dogs to pull the sledges on the long journeys to and from the gold mines.
Buck is stolen from his home in the south and sold as a sledge-dog. He has to learn a new way of life – how to work in harness, how to stay alive in the ice and the snow… and how to fight. Because when a dog falls down in a fight, he never gets up again.

5) COMMENT

I like the story because this story is adventurous and emotional.

6) THE ENDING

I like ending because Buck was became free.

7) THE TITLE

The title is good choice for this story.

8) THE COVER PICTURE

The cover picture comprehends the title. It’s a good construction.
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