My Overview of “The Call of the Wild”

The call of the wild is a title of the book written by Jack London. It was a classic story that contains man and dog characters. The dogs are the snow dogs, that ridding sled. This book was providing by Mr. Terence since the beginning of the final quarter, and so far I finish chapter four. Now I want to express how I feel about the ordinary classic book.  

            There are several characters but there is one main character, Buck, the strong muscle dog. However, Buck was not a leader at the outset. Spitz was another strong dog that also skillful in attacking, and he was the leader of the team. The story become interesting in chapter 3 where Buck tried to revolt to become a leader, so he tried to use his smart trick to broke the solidarity of the team. The team became weaker and weaker until one day that Spitz and other dogs tried to chase the rabbit, and Buck at that time, fight against Spitz. Buck killed Spitz.            

            After Spitz died, Buck believes himself to become a leader of the team as he was a brave and strong dog in the team. Francoise and Perrault (the two men) know what was going on, so they tried to get somebody in the team that replace Spitz’s place but it should not be Buck. First of all, Francoise tried to put Sol-leks as the head of the leader, and they believe that he could lead well. Buck sprang upon Sol-leks, made him back and standing in his place. Most people really want to become the leader of the team, but not for Sol-leks because he knew how strong Buck is, and he wouldn’t feel comfort to stand at Buck’s place as Buck deserved to be the leader. Buck fought for it, and he was in an open revolt even with the two men. The two men tried to get someone else to become the leader as Sol-leks was coward to become the leader; however, there is no one in the team was willing to become the leader. Finally, the two men had compromise with Buck and let him become the leader of the team.     

            After Buck becomes the leader, he was not completely happy because there are still things that he has to fight for, and there are things he has to solemn for. In chapter four, the team had lost its member, and it was Dave. The book is written that dogs are emotion creature because they are sad, ambitious, and cruel. Consequently, it also care for it duty. Dave was weak after sled for too long, and so Sol-leks were place in Dave’s position. No matter how tired he was, Dave didn’t like anyone to replace his position so he tried to fight with Sol-leks. The battle was finish Dave was left the team because Dave had to gone away. This is not because he fought with Sol-leks but it was because he was too weak to continue.   

            The book was written perfectly in English Literature; moreover, it was hide many of the moral lessons. It taught us about the ambitious of dog that reflect to real life of people. The peaceful fighting but contain harmful result. I believe those are the moral of the story that the author really concern. The sadness of the dog told us that no matter how strong you are, there is time that you need other, and you will be depress in your whole life.