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THE CALL OF THE WILD von JACK
LONDON Tobias
Jörger
About the
Author:
Born in 1876 in the slums of San
Fransico, Jack London was forced to leave school after 8th grade by proverty.
He spent the rest of his teenage years as an oyster gatherer, fisherman and
explorer of the great North. He also was a pirate, a seaman, a Yukon prospector,
and a tramp. After his marriage and one year of education at the University of
California, he devoted himself completely to writing. Steading he wrote
articels for magazines and also some novels. The subject matter depended on his
conflecting of ideas: his growing knowledge of the plight of the masses burdened
one side of his heart, his passion of individualism burdened the other one.
Although London had an enormous sized fortune, he spent his last few years in
sadness and full of despair. In 1916 at the age of forty he committed suicide.
Jack London had written fifty books in only
fifteen years. Some of his best known titles include: „The Call of the
Wild“ and „The Sea Wolf“. Both are considered very important
in American Literature, and are read allover the world.
General approach:
The Call of the Wild is a short novel by Jack
London that was published in 1903. Together with other short novels about life
in Alaska (such as „The son of the Wolf „ (1900) and White
Fang“ (1906)) These stories formed in certain respects the dialectic
counterpart to earlier narration forms. „The Call of the Wild“ is
based on Londons experiences as a gold digger in the Klondike area. All of the
stories that Kack London has written during his „North land cycle“
deal with life and survival in the Alaskan desert of ice. He illustrates the
rough life of the gold diggers and their struggle on society’s margins.
Just because London’s novels involve a lot of Wolves and dogs
doesn’t it mean that he can be looked upon as a writer of a harmless
animal story. As a matter of fact:“The Call of the Wild“ is one of
the best and most successful novels of
him. Story:
The call of the Wild is a typical history in
styles of Jack London. It tells the life of a dog during the big gold rush in
Alaska, Judge Miller is the one to steal him from his California Ranch to bring
him to Alaska in order to make a sled dog out of him. Involuntary this dog
called Buck has to leave behind security and love and is suddenly know into a
world of hatred and cruelty. He gets used to the extreme strains of Northern
life and learns to endure his master’s whipping. After having been sold to
several cruel men, John Thornton frees him. Until then all Buck has known that
he has powerlessly exposed to the whipping and stick blows of his owners. With
Thornton Buck has found a new master on whom he can rely. After all the
previous experiences (he had to learn to survife by using his strength and
smartless) it doesn’t come very easy to Buck to get back to the life of
happiness he had once had. Buck wins a competition for Thornten and therfore
Thornten and his friends have enough money to travel to Middle-Alaska. From
then on Bucks wild instincts (" the call of the Wild ") and his loyalty towards
Thornton, whose life he had saved, become to stand in conflict more and more.
More and more often Buck goes on little trips to the wildness and sometimes he
stays away from the shack for days. Like that he learns to look for food and
survive. When Thornton became the victim of an Indian attack, Buck took revenge
on him bloodlily. Then he carries out the last step back to Wilderness and
becomes the leader of a wolf herd.
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