Taking a Stand-The Call of the Wild Review

Leadership. "Buck wanted it. He wanted it because it was his nature, because he had been gripped tight by that nameless, incomprehensible pride of the trial and trace-that pride which holds dogs in the toil to the last gasp, which lures them to die joyfully in the harness, and breaks their hearts if they are cut out of the harness." Jack London's Call of The Wild accentuates the real essence of nature's calling.

Jack London uses a very vivid theme for the book. He highlights the harsh, bitter, and cruel moments through Buck's life. London's voice does not succumb to the feeble bodies reading the story. His voice is unique creating pictures as if the screen is right in front playing the scenes out.

The pain endured as he traveled back to camp was written with great intensity that made the realization everyone had been killed a superior situation for Buck. Jack London creates the characters with such great detail, everyone mentioned strives to find the leadership and courage inside of them throughout the story. Being a like able person is the same as being a like able character. If the character has a good sense of humor at times, sorrow, and leadership the character is well rounded. London's characters in the book are thought out to fit their part exactly the way they need to effect the book. Buck is a great example of a well rounded character. He exerts the effort to prove his spot in the wild. Killing the leaders of other packs and showing he is strong and can lead a pack. Buck also shows grief when he comes to find his family after the Indians have attacked the base camp. The man in the red sweater shows no mercy. He gives outs the punishments wanting to finish the task not to stop and smell the roses and waste all of his time.

Jack London creates a place with harsh environments. Not out of the imagination but of a place he visited before writing the story. He traveled to Alaska and the Canadian Yukon searching for the prized possession gold. With high hopes to bring back gold, London returns with a harsh beauty of the wild to write about in Call of the Wild, published in 1903. Since London has traveled to a place worthy of writing about, he is now able to recall from his experiences and give Buck the same feelings he knows best.

The dominant one. The Leader, Buck, having many problems of his own starting out adapts to new survival techniques needed to survive in the bitter world. Fighting viciously with moose, Indians, and Spitz Buck finds ways to survive and make the time rush by quick. Determined to get back in time to help his family fight off the attackers, Buck sprints through the wild destroying any moving object that gets in his way. Other head chiefs and leaders battle out the top spot with Buck to see who "owns" everything around them. Catch yourself falling for Buck remembering a time in life when nothing seemed to go right and no one was there to support and realize the situation could always be worse, just like in Buck's case.

"But he is not always alone. When the long winter nights come on and the wolves follow their meat into the lower valleys, he may be seen running at the head of the pack through the pale moonlight or glimmering borealis, leaping gigantic above his fellows, his great throat a-bellow as he sings a song of the younger world, which is the song of the pack." I do recommend to cut free and imagine the troubles Buck and his fellow dog packs encounter as the story travels through the vicious, the wild, the calls, for the call of the wild is coming!