The-Call-of-the-Wild-by-Jack-London.doc

Book ReportThe Call of the Wild by Jack London系 别：外 语 系专业名称：英 语指 导 老 师：曾兵老师学生姓名：罗小玲学 号：09120303The Call of the Wild by Jack LondonThe Call of the Wild was written in 1903 by Jack London; the copy I read was published by Oxford University Press printed in 1997.Jack London (1876-1916), an America novelist, was born in San Francisco. He was from a poor family; his father was a bankrupt farmer. He sold newspaper in the street when he was ten years old; worked in an Auckland factory as a child laborer, sometimes even working 36 hours. He left the factory to JinShan port to be a theft, because he could not bear such kind of slavish labor, and then he became sailor a year on the ship. After a period of time, he started to lead a vagrant life, for he did not satisfy the capitalism. He went to wash gold in 1896 when Alaska discovered gold ore.But not long, he suffered from scurvy. So he started the life of literary creation. In 1903, he finished The Call of the Wild. This book will always constitute Jack Londons greatest claim to fame as a writer of dog stories.The book is mainly wrote a dog-Buck, but not formal dog story. Jack reminded readers that, “this is an animal story, but it vary differs from other successful animal stories in theme and dispose.Buck-a dog, the major character, lived at a big house in the sun-kissed Santa Clara Valley in Judge Millers place. And over this great demesne Buck ruled. However, Manuel, who was worked for Judge, sold Buck to two strangers for money. The buyers sent Buck to Seattle. When they arrived at Seattle, a stout man with a red sweater had a fight with Buck, and Buck was failed. From then on, he realized that he was beaten,but not broken. He saw, once for all, that he stood on no chance against a man with a club. He had learned the lessen, and never forget it. And next, he was sold to Alaska to haul the sled. As he had seen horses work, so he set to work. He was too wise to rebel. He learned easily, and under the combined of his two mates an Francois made remarkable progress. He suffered a lot from this jogs. He soon became the chief of the dogs, and he was glad to be gone, though the work was hard he found that he did not particularly despise it. He was surprised at the eagerness which animated the whole team and which was communicated to him, but still more surprising was the change wrought in Dave and Sol-leks who were new dogs utterly transformed by the harness.However, he always dreamed his ancestors and woke up with hearing some howl on still and cold night. And his cadences were their cadences, meaning of the stillness, and cold, and dark. Thus, the ancient song surged through him and he came into his own again, and he came because men had found a yellow metal in the North, and because Manuel was a gardeners helper whose wages did not lap over the needs of his wife and drivers small copies of himself.The dominant primordial beast was strong in Buck, and under the fierce conditions of trail life it grew and grew. Yet it was a secret growth. Then he and his fellows were sold to another person also for money. One time, the new owner nearly struck him to death. At that time, John Thornton stood over Buck, struggling to control himself, too convulsed with rage to speak. He said in a choke voice, “if you strike that dog again, Ill kill you.”John saved Buck and took good care of him. As Buck grew stronger, Johns dogs enticed him into all sorts of ridiculous games, in which John himself could not for bear to join; Buck felt passionate love, and it was the first time. Since then, Bucks love that was feverish and burning, that was adoration, that was madness, it had taken Jon to arouse; rather than stately and dignified friendship wite the Judge.Buck earned a lot of fame for John. They decided to face into the East on an unknown trail to achieve where men and dogs as good as themselves had failed. To Buck it was boundless delight, this hunting, fishing, and indefinite wandering through strange places.During this period of time, Buck especially loved to run in the dim twilight of the summer midnight, listening to the subdued and sleepy murmurs of the forest, reading signs as man may read a book, and seeking for the mysterious something that called, waking and sleeping, at all times, for him to come. He, eventually, left John a few days, and when he came back, he found that John was killed by the Yeehats.The Yeehats were dancing about the wreckage of the spruce-bough lodge when they heard a fearful roaring and saw rushing upon them an animal the like of which they had never seen before. Then a panic seized the Yeehats, and they fled in terror to the woods, proclaiming as they fled the advent of the Evil spirit. John was dead. The last tie was b