The Call Of The Wild, By Jack London

In the novel The Call of the Wild a dog named Buck gets taken from his home in California and is then taken all the way to Yukon, Alaska, along the way Buck has to transform from being a domesticated home dog to a dog of the wild. The author Jack London has written many popular books including the Call of the Wild and many more, his books all display his descriptive writing style very well. London has many different methods of developing themes in his novels and in this novel he uses bucks transformation to develop the theme. In the Novel The Call of the Wild the author Jack London develops the theme by showing the transformation of a domesticated dog to a wild animal and the harsh realities that comes with living in the wild. In
¨As an adolescent, the boy adopted the name of Jack. He worked at various hard labor jobs, pirated for oysters on San Francisco Bay, served on a fish patrol to capture poachers, sailed the Pacific on a sealing ship, joined Kelly's Army of unemployed working men, hoboed around the country, and returned to attend high school at age 19.¨(Clarice Stasz). Some of the things that London did in his life can be reflected on by the things he writes about, like the adventures he took and all the lessons that he has learned over the years are also sometimes shown in many if not all of London's novels. ¨Spending the winter of 1897 in the Yukon provided the metaphorical gold for his first stories, which he began publishing in the Overland Monthly in 1899. From that point he was a highly disciplined writer, who would produce over fifty volumes of stories, novels, and political essays.¨(Clarice Stasz). For example the novel The Call of the Wild setting was in Yukon, Alaska which was somewhere that London went in the winter of 1897 which gave him ¨metaphorical gold for his first stories¨. London was
¨The Sea-Wolf is a psychological adventure novel by American novelist Jack London about a literary critic and other survivors of an ocean collision who come under the dominance of Wolf Larsen, the powerful and amoral sea captain who rescues them.¨(Jack London). Jack London's novels were a lot of the times action packed and can always have a reader on the edge of their seat. ¨The Call of the Wild is a novel by American writer Jack London. The plot concerns a previously domesticated happy dog named Buck, whose primordial instincts return after a series of events leads to his serving as a sled dog in the Yukon during the 19th-century Klondike Gold Rush, in which sled dogs were bought at generous prices. ¨(Jack London). London's previous novels usually reflected on some of the things that he has experienced and that could be a reason why London is so descriptive when he writes. ¨Published in 1903, The Call of the Wild is London's most-read book, and it is generally considered his best, the masterpiece of his so-called "early period". (Jack London). In some peoples opinion London's earlier novels were considered his ¨best work¨ which could have something to do with the fact that age could be making it harder for him to experience ¨adventure¨. ¨London followed the book in 1906 with White Fang, a companion novel with many similar plot elements and