第一篇：英语毕业论文 从《野性的呼唤》中看“适者生存”
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目从《野性的呼唤》中看“适者生存”
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孙常亮
教 务 处 制An Analysis of Survival of the Fittest in The Call of the Wild
A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES
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YUNNAN MINZU UNIVERSITY IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS
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BY YU YANGBING Class of 2011
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Acknowledgements
I would like to express my gratitude to all those who helped me during the writing of this thesis.A special acknowledgement should be given to my supervisor Mr.Sun, who gave me encouragement and useful instructions all through my writing process.Finally I wish to extend my thanks to Mr.Yan, who supplied me with reference materials of great value.Last but not the least, I’d like to thank those leaders, teachers and working staff especially those in the School of Foreign Languages.Without their help, it would be much harder for me to finish my study and this paper.ii
Abstract
The Call of the Wild is one of the most famous novels of Jack London, which consolidates his status in American literature.It was a sunny and civilized place in which Buck originally lived.And with the emergence of the gold rush in arctic regions and created a great demand of sled dogs.So buck was abducted to arctic region.However, Buck adjusted himself very quickly to the hostile environment with his sharp intellect and superb physical qualities.Buck developed a deep friendship with his master Thornton.Afterwards, Thornton was killed by Yeehats and Buck eventually killed the natives to avenge Thornton, and he then followed the wolf into the forest and answered the call of the wild..Buck returned to the wild and became a leader of wolves.It’s not difficult for us to perceive that the author was stressing the ideology of survival of the fittest through Buck’s experience in novel.The analysis of the character Buck is of a great enlightening significance to us.Key words: Buck;the call of the wild;survival of the fittest;change
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摘 要
《野性的呼唤》是美国作家杰克伦敦最著名的小说之一，它使得杰克伦敦确立了在美国文坛的地位。巴克原本生活在文明且暖和的南方，由于寒冷的北极地区的淘金者对雪橇狗的需求增大，因此巴克被人拐卖到了环境极其恶劣的北极地区，然而凭借自身出众的智慧和身体素质便很快地适应了严寒的雪地环境。巴克与后来的主人桑顿建立起了彼此深厚的友谊，但恩主的遇害彻底打碎了巴克对于人类社会的留恋，从而促使巴克坚定决心，毅然走向荒野，回归自然，成为了狼群的首领。在整篇小说中，我们不难发现作者一直都通过巴克的一举一动来渲染和烘托“适者生存”这一主题。本文通过对巴克这一形象进行解读对当代人有着较强的现实意义和启迪意义。
关键词：巴克；野性的呼唤；适者生存；改变
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Contents
Statement of Authorship………………………………….........................................i
Acknowledgements……………………………………..............................................ii
Abstract………………………………..................................................iii
摘要…..................................................................................iv
Ⅰ.Introduction..................................................................1 1.1 Introduction of Jack London...................................................1 1.2 Introduction of the Call of the Wild..............................................1 Ⅱ.Survival of the Fittest Theory...........................................2 Ⅲ.The change of Buck’s fate...............................................3
3.1 Falling into a snare and leaving home...........................................3
3.2 Going into the wild...........................................................3
3.3 Living in a desperate environment..............................................4
3.4 Working as a sled dog.........................................................5 Ⅳ.Acquiring the survival skills in the new environment........................5 4.1 Learning the lesson of primitive law............................................5
4.2 Becoming a leader of the team.................................................6
4.3 Fighting in the wild...........................................................6 Ⅴ.Returning to the wild..................................................7 Ⅵ.Conclusion...........................................................8 References
Ⅰ.Introduction 1.1 Introduction of Jack London Jack London, a great American realistic writer, is not only well-known worldwide master of novel but also as a great dramatist.He was born on January 12, 1876 in a poor family and died on November 22, 1916.Besides, he came from the bottom of the society and once worked as a writer, sailor and journalist.Therefore, London got a rich experience during his lifetime.To some extent, Jack London was totally self-educated on account of the poor life.At the age of 10, he had to go to work while going to school.Ever he was free he would devote all his spare time to study.In London’s career, he had created a great number of works which including short stories, novels, as well as a great many essays.As one of the greatest American writers, London’s works were considered as classic in the history of American literature.The readers can tell by his works that he depicted the miserable lives of lower class in America and revealed the evil of the Capitalism.1.2 Introduction of the Call of the Wild The Call of the Wild is one of the most famous novels by Jack London.The story revolves around the time of the Gold Rush prevalent in society, in which the author depicts the dog’s struggling actions most incisively and vividly.The novel mainly describes the process of leading character –Buck who returns from the civilized human society to the primitive life of the wolves.Buck has lived in a safe and comfortable environment since childhood, until he was abducted to the primal wilderness as a sled dog.Buck lived in the south originally，a civilized and warm place, with the emergence of the gold rush in arctic regions which created a great demand of sled dog.So buck was abducted to arctic region.However, Buck is an agile dog of wild nature.He puts his best efforts into pulling sled while fighting against others with bravery and valor.Buck adjusted himself very quickly to the hostile environment with his sharp intellect and superb physical qualities.Afterwards, Buck returned to the wild and became a leader of wolves.Although the central character is a dog in the story, it gives a vivid description of the life in the primitive northern world where a gold rush exploded and people all wanted to make a fortune.Buck,used to be a pet of Judge Miller, was abducted and sold to North.And in ensuing days he became one of a dog-sled team to 1 pull a sled.During the process of pulling a snow-sled, he understood that only when one follows the law of nature and obeys the master could one survive.Afterwards, Buck’s nature had been liberated, which made him be able to survive in the harsh environment.This is a brief introduction to the call of the wild.And the novel belongs to the genre of animal fiction, when you read it, you will find that Buck is endowed with the character of human nature and human thoughts.So he is more like a man than a dog.In the story, Buck would be certain to give you a deep impression with his wisdom and strength.Ⅱ.Survival of the fittest theory “Survival of the fittest” is a phrase that originated in evolutionary theory as a way of describing the natural selection.(Net.1)We are endowed with incredible potential and ability to fight and compete.Obviously there are winners and losers existing in this world we live.Just like animals fight a bloody battle for the sexual partner or prey.They are doing their utmost to extend the life and get a high status in front of their same species.The world is greatly cruel, survival of the fittest.The strong get the opportunity to survive and receive rewards, and the weak will be eliminative and disappeared in this world.That means the weak are doomed to die out.It is because that the strong making possible impelling the weak move in decline or the dead direction.Even if you are a spectator, you might be the one who makes grief to others;therefore everyone might be a culprit in someone else’s life directly or indirectly in this brutal world.The big bullying the small, the strong bullying the weak and the big fish swallowing the little fish.What we should have learned from that statement is that the strong survived, and the weak eliminated.This is not just a phenomenon confined to the whole animal world, but the human society as well.In the ecology environment of animals, there exists the law of the jungle and survival completion, and that is their survival state.We live in a world that is constantly bombarding us with changes.Humankind’s response has got to be immediately to new signs of sudden situation.Because that’s what life is.Whether you are willing or not, the world would move forward.Ain’t nobody gonna have no pity on you.Aint’t nobody gonna have no understanding on you.Only by working hard can we reveal ourselves.Nature always follows the rule of selecting the superior and 2 eliminating the inferior.There is a theory about the society that no progressive opportunities can be seen if do not strive to perform any competitive action, since ancient times.Competition is more ruthless than what we have thought it should be.However, only in this way can reveal one’s incredibly excellent ability in human society as well as in animal world.Ⅲ.The change of Buck’s fate 3.1 Falling into a snare and leaving home Buck was a dog of 140 pounds.He had lived in judge Miller’s residence for 4 years.During that time, buck was supplied with satisfied food and a comfortable environment.It seemed that he never worried about lives because he could reach whatever he wanted.Due to the superior living environment, he received a great number of favors and did not need to do some hard works or chores.In this regard, Buck formed a few good habits such as docility and gentleness.However, all of this was ended on an awful night.Manuel,a gardener of Judge Miller, who liked gambling.It was a man of misbehavior.One day he lost his money in a gamble and wanted to get his loan back.Therefore, he made Buck fall into a snare and abducted Buck get out of house and sold him to a strange man with a fortune of 100 dollars.When the train was coming along the railway and two people threw it in the luggage trunk.All of a sudden he realized that he was kidnapped and it was too late to do anything for him.From that moment on, there were no any differences between Buck and other dogs.His entire halo had been removed and there was an unknown road ahead him.3.2 Going into the wild It seemed apparently that Buck had played a key role in Judge Miller’s home.As a pet, Buck lived in a civilized society originally, in which residents lived under good social order.Buck is more a pet than a beast in this world.He need not work for his master, Mr.Miller;besides, he neither did have to nurse his master or secure home.It was because that Buck was primarily a playmate or a family member to Mr.Miller.Living in such a cozy environment, Buck had never feared the shortage of food and the struggle with his species.On the contrary, he kept enjoying what the civilization had brought to him, including the warm sunshine, beautiful garden and the fruit fields.However, Buck's rich life did not last long.Gone away 3 from the sunny and civilized south, Buck had come to the arctic region in which there is full of ice and snow.He was not the boss any more with a fancy status to rule other companions, Where Buck stayed after kidnapping was a totally wilderness, it’s a place without peace and repose, and as well filling with dangers.“Here was neither peace, nor rest, nor a moment's safety.All was confusion and action, and every moment life and limb were in peril.There was imperative need to be constantly alert, for these dogs and men were not town dogs and men.They were savages, all of them, who knew no law but the law of club and fang”.(Jack London, 1981:45)In this regard, they had to be careful and remain focused every moment.Buck was forced to arrive in an unfamiliar world.In his eyes, both the dogs and people here were full of barbarism.It was the first time that he saw those dogs attacking their companions with fellness.That scene would be an unforgettable experience in his life and he started figuring out what the real situation was in wild environment.3.3 Living in a desperate environment Buck had lived a carefree life in Mr.Miller's luxurious house till he was kidnapped.But since then, Buck’s living environment became worse and worse.Every day he had little food to eat, so that he was almost always hungry.In this regard, Buck had to fill the belly by stealing the foods from his host and learning to eat fast.Moreover, while fetching water to quench his thirst, he tried to break the ice by his strong feet under freezing condition.Even though, he met a good host John Thornton who treated Buck with much care and love, unfortunately, it didn’t last long.As a human being, Thornton had to fight against the harsh environment together with those dogs.Ultimately, he was not successful and he was murdered by local Indians.So Buck exploded into a rage about Thornton’s death and revenged the murder of his master.After that, he was determined to head to the wilderness, becoming a part of the wolves.In fact, Buck was an undisputed warrior, he defeated other wolves and became a leader with his wisdom and strength.As Buck got away from civilized society gradually, he became an intrepid beast eventually.Buck had gone through a large amount of trials.First, his living environment had undergone a huge shift and the carefree life had gone forever.And, second, the new environment was full of all kinds of dangers and challenges, he had to adjust himself to it as soon as possible.In such a desperate environment, Buck had to accept new things and learn essential survival skills.It was sharp changes of his living environment that enabled him to obey the rules of nature.3.4 Working as a sled dog Buck was abducted to the cold area and started doing physical labor as a horse.Buck felt strongly that his dignity was deeply hurt but he knew that there was no use resisting.He had got to obey orders.If he came out against he would be punished.In that case, the violence enabled him to quickly learn how to pull the sledge to please his master.It was very hard for those dogs to pull a sled in freezing condition.On the one hand, the dogs were supposed to run hundreds of miles a day.On the other hand, when working, the dogs had to gone through the hunger and cold.In the period of pulling the sledge, Buck had gained a lot from sled work, which was beneficial to his further life in primitive world.Ⅳ.Acquiring the survival skills in the new environment 4.1 Learning the lesson of primitive law The primitive law is a basic rule, which must be followed in the primitive world.It implies that cruelty is an essential part of the primitive world and obeying the power is a must for men and animals in the wild world.Buck had lived a cozy life in Mr.Miller’s house in the Santa Clara Valley, because he had no need to work for Mr.Miller.To his delight, Buck had got a really easy job, what he had to do was to play with his hosts.It must be a nice living in such a civilized environment and never having to worry about food or struggling with others, let alone dangers.During his time in Mr.Miller’s home, he believed that human beings were friendly until he was directly to be sold to the dog trader without any precautions by Manuel who was a gardener of Mr.Miller’s.By the time he realized that he had been sold to a stranger, it’s too late and Buck felt extremely humiliated.He had privately resolved he would revenge the men who maltreated him.To complete the revenge, Buck tussled with other dogs.Only in this way, could he get dog trainers’ attention and show them his power.Later, there was a chance for him, so he bursted out of the cage, he couldn’t wait to vent out his anger at once.Actually it’s not that easy, Buck was knocked down every time, so that the idea he wanted to jump on the man in red for revenge was beaten out of his head by reality.5 Ultimately, after he had been knocked down to the ground for so many times, Buck found he could not rise to his feet again.After being beaten badly, Buck understood that a man with club is not the one he could provoke.All he could do was to follow the law of club.That’s one of the first lessons he had learnt in the primitive world, and it’s also the first time that Buck had realized how cruel the life was.However, looking at this from another perspective, Buck was a success because he had understood the law of the club.4.2Becoming a leader of the team The wild animal was strong in Buck, and as he traveled across the snow, it grew stronger and stronger.(Jack London, 1981:67)During the period he was compelled to do slave labor to pull the sled with his companions, Buck was too strong to face up to the difficulties no matter how hard the situation was.Spitz who was the leader of the team, Buck had learnt a lot from him.It was the behaviors of Spitz that aroused the conquering desire of Buck.Spitz was regarding Buck as a potential adversary and provocating external behaviors to Buck.At first, he resorted to tolerate and avoid any confrontations with Spitz, so he tried his utmost to control himself.Whereas, when Spitz realized Buck’s threaten, he made up his mind to put Buck in a serious position.So Spitz seized an opportunity to forcibly occupy the cozy nest of Buck.This kind of hatred behavior irritated Buck to strive against the fiend Spitz.To Spitz’s surprise, Buck was not a yellow-bellied dog.There was much courage in his bones.In fact, Buck was an intrepid dog.Therefore, the conflict between Buck and Spitz was unable to avoid.He wanted to defeat the devil Spitz and be the leader among dogs.Later, there was a chance for him.The teammates were running after a rabbit, Buck and Spitz had also been involved in hunting.When the rabbit was killed by those peckish sled dogs, a struggle of life-and-death was just getting started.Spitz fought like a wolf while Buck fought like ten wolves.Finally, Buck defeated Spitz with the wisdom and physical strength, becoming a leader of the team.4.3 Fighting in the wild
Buck and the other dogs accompanied their host Thornton to find the Lost Cabin and
the journey was full of dangers.Even if they had made great efforts, they failed to find the Lost Cabin that was only a legend, they discovered a mineral deposit by accident and they decided not to seek any more.Therefore, they settled down and the life became relatively leisure and carefree.Buck heard strange and mysterious sounds from the forest, and he somehow was attracted.He was running through the trees one night after hearing the call from wilderness.Unlike previous behavior, he didn’t attack the wolves this time but made friends with them.In the days that followed, the call in the wild seemed more attractive to him.Thus, Buck started loafing about in the forest to look for his wild brother.During that period, a big black bear was killed by Buck.The wild nature that buried deeply inside Buck was totally bursted out.He could almost defeat all of rivals if he would like.Once, he chased and killed a leader of bull with perseverance and determination.Afterwards, Buck found that his host was killed by the Yeehats.He decided to revenge for Thornton, so he killed the most of people of Yeehats.Ⅴ.Returning to the wild The return of the wild runs through the whole novel from the opening to the end.Buck was abducted to an extremely harsh environment which filled with dangers.Afterwards, Buck heard the call of wolves from wilderness.All of these seemed to indicate that the destiny of Buck was doomed to return to the wild and get his wild nature back.Buck has got superior intellect and physical quality, in addition, Buck was able to adapt to the environments which were constantly changing.Therefore, when he confronted with cruel struggle of existence, he could act more and more confidently on account of his own superiority.What’s more, the superior physical quality also provided Buck with a good condition to get his wild nature back.With the mysterious calling echoing in the wilderness again and again, the inner wild had been greatly arising.He was quite eager to step out of human world and go back to wild.For Buck, only if becoming cruel could he be truly free and be what he really was.The reason why Buck lingered over between so-called civilized world and free wild world was because that he had developed deep love with his last owner Thornton.There was such a love, a dog’s loyalty and trust to his owner, which was like sweet dew after drought and waked up the love of Buck’s deep heart.Buck spent a happy and peaceful time with Thornton;during that period Thornton treated Buck like his own child and gave him endless love.What Thornton did to Buck had made Buck learn how to love for the first time.Buck and Thornton 7 treated each other in a sincere way.It was the only precious thing that the so-called civilized society left to Buck.In spite of Buck had a deep love for Thornton, the wild nature that stimulated by the harsh environment still existed in his blood, but when his master was killed ruthlessly, Buck had experienced unprecedented empty sense, this kind of sense brought stinging pain to him.Buck understood that Thornton had left him forever.After hearing the call, he made a dash to forests and never came back to human society.It was the human that put Buck into wild and enabled him to get back to primitive world from civilized society.Finally, Buck returned to the wild completely and he started striving to survive.He understood a truth that if he failed he would die.So he had to win and he must win.No matter the human world or animal world, both of them are full of frustrations and they belong to those who are strong enough.Ⅵ.Conclusion The Call of the Wild best reveals the survival of the fittest idea among Jack London’s works.Firstly, in terms of Buck’s thoughts, he had learned an all-important lesson in the primitive world—the law of club after the man in red whipped him ruthlessly with a club.The reason why the dog trader was capable of dominating those dogs completely was that he possessed a club.And the essence of the law of club is that the power is the truth and one has to obey it.Later, Buck also realized that kind of grim rule also existed among animals.In the wilderness, peaceful coexistence and friendship had passed out of existence, instead cruelty and bloodiness had replaced them.If animals were not strong enough to fight against attack, they would die.The principle of justice and fairness only exist in civilized society, while in primitive world, one has to follow the law of club and tooth.Secondly, in the aspect of survival skills, Buck had learned how to steal food to fill his stomach, how to break the ice with his feet to quench his thirst and learned how to sled to please his master, how to fight like a wolf, how to dig a warm nest to sleep in cold environment.To accommodate to the changing environment, Buck was striving to make him stronger.In the novel, London deeply reveals the real human society through Buck's experiences.8 The readers are able to find an idea that there is no essential difference between human world and animal world.The author used ―he‖ to refer to Buck instead of ―it‖, because the character ―Buck‖ should not be understood only as a dog but also as symbol of human character.In human society, there are powerful people like Buck who have got strong ability to master the world with the quality of continuous progress.And the characteristic and fate of the characters in the novel also reflect all sorts of people in real life.London depicted dogs to reflect the cruel reality instead of by mechanical representation.Thus, the survival of the fittest theory that reflected in the Call of the Wild is also a living rule for human beings and we must to adapt ourselves to the brutal environment, otherwise we will be eliminated by the society.References [1] Jack• London, The Call of the Wild and White Fang [M].N.Y.The Bantam Books, 1981.[2]杰克•伦敦.野性的呼唤[M].孙法理译.南京：译林出版社，2011.[3]漆以凯.杰克伦敦和他的小说[M].北京：北京出版社，1981.[4]刘擎.达尔文主义的迷思，[J]新世纪周刊，2010 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第二篇：呼唤野性
《呼唤野性》读书笔记
《呼唤野性》这本书是选自《猫武士》的第一本书，这本书的作者是英国的著名作家艾琳·亨特写的一部写猫的动物小说。《猫武士》这套书被誉为“史上最伟大的写猫的动物小说”，被赞“其精彩无法用文字表述”。我向大家推荐这本书主要有以下几个理由：
1.《呼唤野性》这本书用引人入胜的故事代替啰啰唆唆的唠叨，使人越看越爱看；
2.这本书对猫进行了多方面的描写，并且还有很多的好词好句可以借鉴；
3.这本书会给你很多的启示和道理。
接下来，我给大家来介绍这本书的主要内容：
宠物猫拉斯特没有想到，在主人的花园外面，在幽静的森林深处，存在着雷、风、影、河四个由野猫组成的族群。他们秉承武士祖先的遗训，共同统治森林，为了生存而彼此竞争。
更让人想不到的是，这只普通的宠物猫竟成为雷族的学徒，得名火爪（成为武士后，得名火心）。火爪将运用勇气与智慧，克服重重困难，最终被命名为雷族族长：火星。
大家肯定迫不及待想去看这本书了吧。别急别急，接下来给大家展现一些好词好句吧！
好的词语有：火冒三丈、出言不逊、龇牙咧嘴、若有所思、面如土色、絮絮叨叨、迅雷不及掩耳、逃之夭夭、虚张声势、瑟瑟发抖等。
佳句有：1.拉斯特回过头来时，它已如离弦的箭一般奔进一颗大树的树根从里，消失在黑暗中。
2.偷袭者的爪子利如锋芒，紧紧地抓在拉斯特的脊背上，利刃般的牙齿狠狠地咬住他的脖子。
3.一棵棵参天大树遮蔽住晌午的烈日，使得这里凉爽怡人。一缕缕的阳光从枝叶的缝隙间穿进来照亮森林。
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同时，这本书还给了我很多启示：猫们也会懂得孝敬长辈；猫与猫之间的团结友爱；猫对族群的忠诚；猫对猫的宽容大度；猫们坚持正义共御强敌以及猫们的坚强、坚持不懈的品质。这些美德在书里都体现得淋漓尽致，它们都是我们应该学习的榜样。
如果大家找来读一读，那么我要给大家一个提示：由于这本书太过精彩，极易一翻开就无法放下。长时间的不间断阅读，可能导致视力下降，所以请大家控制好阅读时间哦！
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第三篇：野性的呼唤,英语读后感
The Literature Work That I Like Best
/The call of the wild
Introduction
At the beginning of this century, many new writers emerged with the introduction of many new ideas.Among them, Jack London was the most popular one.Jack London(1876-1916)is a worldwide renowned novelist.His stories successfully reflect the contradictory views of man’s nature and destiny in and against the wild, and his “fight to survive” notion has gained him and his works timeless popularity, particularly, the Call of the Wild
第四篇：野性的呼唤英语读后感
The Call of the Wild
I About Jack London
Jack London(born Jan.12, 1876, died Nov.22, 1916)was born in San Francisco and became the most successful writer in America in the early 20th century.He was deserted by his father, “Professor” William Henry Chaney, an itinerant astrologer and raised in Oakland by his mother Flora Wellman, a music teacher and spiritualist.His stepfather John London, whose surname he took, was a failed storekeeper.London's youth was marked by poverty.He is an illegitimate child, he passed his childhood in poverty in the Oakland slums.At the age of 17, he ventured to sea on a sealing ship.The turning point of his life was a thirty-day imprisonment that was so degrading it made him decide to turn to education and pursue a career in writing.He is best known for his books and a few short stories.He experimented with many literary forms, from conventional love stories and dystopias to science fantasy.His noted journalism included war correspondence, boxing stories, and the life of Molokai lepers.A committed socialist, he insisted against editorial pressures to write political essays and insert social criticism in his fiction.He was among the most influential figures of his day, who understood how to create a public person and use the media to market his self-created image of poor-boy-turned-success.London's great passion was agriculture, and he was well on the way of creating a new model for ranching through his Beauty Ranch when he died of kidney disease at age 40.He left over fifty books of novels, stories, journalism, and essays, many of which have been translated and continue to be read around the world.II about the call of the wild
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This story describe a dog Buck, who leads a comfortable life in a California ranch home with his owner, a judge, until he is stolen and sold to pay off a gambling debt.Buck is taken to Alaska and sold to a pair of French Canadians who were impressed with his physique.They train him as a sled dog, and he quickly learns how to survive the cold winter nights and the pack society by observing his teammates.Buck is later sold again and passes hands several times, all the while improving his abilities as a sled dog and pack leader.Eventually, Buck is sold to a man named Hal, his wife, and her brother who know nothing about sledding nor surviving in the Alaskan wilderness.They struggle to control the sled and ignore warnings not to travel during the spring melt.As they journey on, they run into John Thornton, an experienced outdoors man, who notices that all of the sled dogs are in terrible shape from the ill treatment of their handlers.Thornton warns the trio against crossing the river, but they refuse to listen and order Buck to mush.Exhausted, starving, and sensing the danger ahead, Buck refuses.Recognizing him as a remarkable dog and disgusted by the driver's beating of the dog, Thornton cuts him free from his traces and tells the trio he's keeping him.After some argument, the trio leaves and tries to cross the river, but as Thornton warned the ice gives way and they drown.As Thornton nurses Buck back to health, Buck comes to love him and grows devoted to him.Thornton takes him on trips to pan for gold.During one such trip, a man makes a wager with Thornton over Buck's strength and devotion.Buck wins the bet by breaking a half-ton sled out of the frozen ground, then pulling it 100 yards by himself.Thornton and his friends return to their camp and continue their search for gold, while Buck begins exploring the wilderness around them and begins socializing with a local wolf pack.One morning, he returns from a three-day long hunt to find his beloved master and the others in the camp have been killed by some Native Americans.Buck finds some of them in the camp and kills them to avenge Thornton, later finding other members of the tribe, then returns to the woods to become alpha wolf of the pack.Each year he revisits the site where Thornton died, never completely forgetting the master he loved.III about characteristics of Buck
The protagonist of our story, Buck is part St.Bernard, part Scotch shepherd.Buck's characteristic was changing throughout his way of returning wild.At the beginning of the story, Buck is a domesticated, but atypical dog who lives in the home of Judge Miller in California.He was gentle and sluggish before he had been sold.After being kidnapped and taken to Alaska to become a sled-dog, Buck's wild nature is reawakened, he learned to become cunning, crafty and resolute.He fell in love with John Thorton who saved his life several times.However, a sort of violent desire which was attracted by the wild urged him to return to deep forests more and more frequently and he slowly returns to the ways of his ancestors.III My Opinions on the call of the wild
The dogs in the book are all loyal to their masters.For example, a man makes a wager with Thornton over Buck's strength and devotion.Buck wins the bet by breaking a half-ton sled out of the frozen ground, then pulling it 100 yards by himself.In addition, all dogs have sense of honor.They are all proud of being sled dogs, and devote themselves to the work.For example, Dave, who is going to die, still insists on working.“Sick as he was, Dave resented being taken out, grunting and growling
while the traces were unfastened and whimpering when he saw Sol-leks(another dog)in the position he had held and served so long.For the pride of trace and trail was his, and, sick to death, he could not bear that another dog should do his work.”
Both loyalty and honor are based on love which is what touches me deeply.Because of love to Thornton, Buck does such thing that seems impossible to accomplish.Because of sense of honor, Dave insists on working till he dies.As we know, Buck answers the call of and returns to the wild finally.In my opinion, the call is not from the wild though Buck often hears the howl of the wolves.Instead, it is from the bottom of Buck’s heart.The call is the will or the instinct which makes him want to be himself: A wolf.I think every one of us has a call in our hearts.The call is our dream, goal or something we really want to do.However, under the pressure of society, we often have to give up our dreams or goals, and do things we are unwilling to do.So we should learn something from Buck: Just follow the call, and be yourself!
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The Call of The Wild
I About Jack London
Jack London(born Jan.12, 1876, died Nov.22, 1916), whose life symbolized the power of will, was the most successful writer in America in the early 20th Century.His vigorous stories of men and animals against the environment, and survival against hardships were drawn mainly from his own experience.An illegitimate child, London passed his childhood in poverty in the Oakland slums.At the age of 17, he ventured to sea on a sealing ship.The turning point of his life was a thirty-day imprisonment that was so degrading it made him decide to turn to education and pursue a career in writing.And his experiences of searching for gold in the Klondike left their mark in his stories.His work embraced the concepts of unconfined individualism and Darwinism in its exploration of the laws of nature.II Plot
Buck is a dog who leads a comfortable life in a California ranch home with his owner, a judge, until he is stolen and sold to pay off a gambling debt.Buck is taken to Alaska and sold to a pair of French Canadians who were impressed with his physique.They train him as a sled dog, and he quickly learns how to survive the cold winter nights and the pack society by observing his teammates.Buck is later sold again and passes hands several times, all the while improving his abilities as a sled dog and pack leader.Eventually, Buck is sold to a man, his wife, and her brother who know nothing about sledding nor surviving in the Alaskan wilderness.They struggle to control the sled and ignore warnings not to travel during the spring melt.As they journey on, they run into John Thornton, an experienced outdoors man, who notices that all of the sled dogs are in terrible shape from the ill treatment of their handlers.Thornton warns the trio against crossing the river, but they refuse to listen and order Buck to mush.Exhausted, starving, and sensing the danger ahead, Buck refuses.Recognizing him as a remarkable dog and disgusted by the driver's beating of the dog, Thornton cuts him free from his traces and tells the trio he's keeping him.After some argument, the trio leaves and tries to cross the river, but as Thornton warned the ice gives way and they drown.As Thornton nurses Buck back to health, Buck comes to love him and grows devoted to him.Thornton takes him on trips to pan for gold.Thornton and his friends go to their camp and continue their search for gold, while Buck begins exploring the wilderness around them and begins socializing with a local wolf pack.One morning, he returns from a three-day long hunt to find his beloved master and the others in the
camp have been killed by some Native Americans.Buck finds some of them in the camp and kills them to avenge Thornton, later finding other members of the tribe, then returns to the woods to become alpha wolfof the pack.Each year he revisits the site where Thornton died, never completely forgetting the master he loved.III My Opinions
Loyalty, Honor and Love
The dogs in the book are all loyal to their masters.For example, a man makes a wager with Thornton over Buck's strength and devotion.Buck wins the bet by breaking a half-ton sled out of the frozen ground, then pulling it 100 yards by himself.In addition, all dogs have sense of honor.They are all proud of being sled dogs, and devote themselves to the work.For example, Dave, who is going to die, still insists on working.“Sick as he was, Dave resented being taken out, grunting and growling while the traces were unfastened and whimpering when he saw Sol-leks(another dog)in the position he had held and served so long.For the pride of trace and trail was his, and, sick to death, he could not bear that another dog should do his work.”
Both loyalty and honor are based on love which is what touches me deeply.Because of love to Thornton, Buck does such thing that seems impossible to accomplish.Because of sense of honor, Dave insists on working till he dies.As we know, Buck answers the call of and returns to the wild finally.In my opinion, the call is not from the wild though Buck often hears the howl of the wolves.Instead, it is from the bottom of Buck’s heart.The call is the will or the instinct which makes him want to be himself: A wolf.I think every one of us has a call in our hearts.The call is our dream, goal or something we really want to do.However, under the pressure of society, we often have to give up our dreams or goals, and do things we are unwilling to do.So we should learn something from Buck: Just follow the call, and be yourself!
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