The Call Of The Wild Essay
In the book The Call of the Wild The main character is a large St. Bernard/Scotch shepherd dog named Buck. At the Setting the book is placed in is right as gold was discovered in the harsh conditions of the Klondike and everyone was after it. As Buck was a highly strong and capable dog he was stolen from his home with a wealthy owner and sold to become a sled dog. Buck encountered many obstacles the second he was sold and loaded on a train to take him from the sunny Californian conditions. Buck was taught the law of the club and fang through his time before he was sold once again and placed on a sled team to pull sled drivers to find the gold that everyone wanted. He went from sled team to sled team as he was sold for funds. Buck became
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The themes carry through the book as Buck learns how to survive in the wild and to the moment everything makes sense to him. The setting of the harsh conditions in the Klondike makes Buck a tough and powerful beast through the sled carrying. Characters consisted of large amounts of dogs and some sled drivers along with a few tenderfoots that did not know much of the wilderness. Most of Bucks internal conflict was the unknowing if he would ever see his house in California again. Most of the external conflict is the snowy conditions that make everyday life in the Klondike very difficult. Other external conflict for Buck would be sled drivers that don’t know what they are doing and treat there dogs poorly as well as other unfriendly dogs and wolfs that sometimes picked fights with the sled dogs.
I would recommend this book to anyone that enjoys historical fiction with some realistic fiction in the background. There are many parts in the book with action and this many make other readers enjoy this book. Buck is always overcoming an obstacle or challenge through the book. He is also a pretty fun character to get to know because of his lack of wilderness knowledge at the beginning of the book to his knowing everything about the Klondike by the end. With all of these different and exciting elements in the book it is a very enjoyable read from cover
The themes carry through the book as Buck learns how to survive in the wild and to the moment everything makes sense to him. The setting of the harsh conditions in the Klondike makes Buck a tough and powerful beast through the sled carrying. Characters consisted of large amounts of dogs and some sled drivers along with a few tenderfoots that did not know much of the wilderness. Most of Bucks internal conflict was the unknowing if he would ever see his house in California again. Most of the external conflict is the snowy conditions that make everyday life in the Klondike very difficult. Other external conflict for Buck would be sled drivers that don’t know what they are doing and treat there dogs poorly as well as other unfriendly dogs and wolfs that sometimes picked fights with the sled dogs.
I would recommend this book to anyone that enjoys historical fiction with some realistic fiction in the background. There are many parts in the book with action and this many make other readers enjoy this book. Buck is always overcoming an obstacle or challenge through the book. He is also a pretty fun character to get to know because of his lack of wilderness knowledge at the beginning of the book to his knowing everything about the Klondike by the end. With all of these different and exciting elements in the book it is a very enjoyable read from cover