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Essay Name       : 1113.txt 
Uploader         : Sam
Email Address    : 
Language         : English
Subject          : Fictional Stories
Title            : Call of the Wild
Grade            : 89%
School System    : High School---grade 10
Country          : United States of America
Author Comments  : A letter to a friend telling why he would like the book.
Teacher Comments : Could have been longer
Date             : 3-12-96
Site found at    : I found it on a homepage.
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	Dear Jake,

	I will be glad to tell you about a really great book I read lately.  It is called Call of the Wild, by Jack 

London.  It has 104 pages and is a fiction book.

	The Call of the Wild has a very interesting plot.  It is centered around a St. Bernard and Scotch 

Shepard mix, named Buck.  At home, which was a large house called Judge Millers Place, in the sun 

kissed Sanata Clara Valley, he ruled over all dogs.  Buck was Judge Miller's inseperable companion, until

a man named Manuel, who was the one of the gardener's helpers,  commited a treacherous act.   Manuel, 

to cover his Chinese lottery gambling debts, stole Buck from his sound sleep and brought him to a flag 

station called College Park.  There, the exchanging of money took place.  It was simple.  Manuel needed 

money to pay off his gambling debts, and Buck was a prime candidate.  Buck was loaded onto an express 

car to Seattle.  When he got there, he was bought by two men named Perrault and Francois.  
	
	He was loaded onto a ship called the Narwhal and tooken to the Yukon, where he was to be trained as 

a sled dog.  There were other sled dogs that Buck came to know well, each with their own unique 

personality.  After only a short time of training, Buck was a sled dog, traveling with the team of huskys 

and mix breeds from Dyea Beach, to the town of Dawson.  

	After several trips with Perrault and Francois, Buck was traded to a know nothing, gold seeking 

family.  they knew nothing, or hardly nothing, about managing a sled team.  There trip began with a very 

bad start.  The family had loaded up their wagon with too much unneded baggage, and it was top heavy.  

as the dogs began to pull away and pull around a curve, the baggage tipped over along with the sled and 

thus the unnecessary baggage was discarded, and the trip was barely completed because of harsh weather, 

inadequate supplies, and poor management skills of the dog handlers.  All except a man that went by the 

name of John Thornton, perhaps the only sane one in the group.  After on e of the men repeatedly beat 

on a dog, Thornton became enraged.  He threatened to kill the man, and shortly after, he unhooked the 

beaten Buck from the sled, the rest of the family left John Thornton.  A few minutes later, the rest of the 

family that left thornton behind fell through some cracked ice and drowned.  That left Buck and Thornton 

to fend for themselves.  the time of this book is in the great gold rush era in the Yukon and Alaska.  The

 rest of the book concludes what happens to Buck and John Thornton and some of the extrordinary times 

they have together.

	I think you will enjoy this book because it is full of adventure.  Not once did i want to put the book 

down.
	
	Call of the Wild is a book that more truly represents but does not actually depict what the gold rush 

era was really like for the people and the dogs who toiled through the harsh Yukon Territory.  That, in 

itself, makes the book more interesting to read.

	I also think you will enjoy reading this book because it is a classic, and written by Jack London, 

whose prior achievements speak for themselves.  This respect towards the author allows you to focus more 

on the text and not the credibility of the author.

	The final reason i think you will enjoy this book is that it tells about the goods and bads of wilderness 

life.  it doesn't just lean to one side. 
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