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1.The introduction

Jack London, a famous American writer, was born on January 12th, 1876 in California.Born in a poor family, Jack had to leave school to make money.He worked hard in many different jobs.In the year 1897, he went to Alaska to find gold.Instead of getting much gold, he found ideas for his books and stories.He went back home and began to write.He wrote a lot of influential works during his life span, such as The Son of the Wolf, Love of Life, The Sea Wolf, The White Fang, etc.His writings succefully reflect the contradictory views of man’s nature and destiny in and against the wild and are warmly welcomed.He died in 1916 when he was only forty years old.The call of the wild was written after London went back from the north.Due to the shortage of fresh fruits and vegetables, London suffered scurvy and had to went back home.Though he didn’t find gold, he had accumulated a lot of writing materials which laid the foundation of his writings.On his way home, he had drawn the outline of his several books including the call of the wild.2.The content of the novel The novel consists of seven chapters.It mainly tells Buck, a dog’s transformation from ranch pet to Ghost Dog of the Wilderne.The story starts with the context of the second great gold rush of the 19th century.Because of the discovery of gold in the Northland, thousands of people went there to find gold, which also made the demand of dogs increase significantly.As a result, numerous of

dogs were sent to the cold north and Buck was among them.Buck was born in warm California, and he was a mixed-blood whose father was a huge St.Bernad and whose mother was a Scotch shepherd dog.He inherited his parents’ qualities of bravery, belligerence and the endurance of coldne.Besides, though he had lived the life of a stated aristocrat, he was not becoming a mere pampered house dog because hunting and kindred outdoor activities helped build his strong body.All these were an indispensible part reason of his survival in the badly environment.Just as an old saying says that dog is humans’ loyalist friends, Buck was no exception.He believed in all the people that he was familiar with, while his loyalty caused him great trouble.Manuel took advantage of Buck’s loyalty and sent him to the cold, dark Northland.It is a turning point of Buck’s peaceful life and then his life changed completely.After a paage through many hands, Buck was sent to a place where he met a stout man wearing a red sweater who taught him the first important leon that he would never forget.The man beat him severely with a club and Buck’s dignity was hurt deeply.However, he learned that: Once for all, that he stood no chance against a man with a club.It was his introduction to the reign of primitive law.Then Buck and another Newfoundland dog Curly were taken away by a little man.In the tween-decks of the Nerwhal, Buck and Curly joined another two dogs: Spitz and Dave.Before long, Buck learned another important leon which came from the death of Curly.Curly showed her friendline to Spitz, a husky dog, while led to a fierce fight.Finally Curly went down.It was a shock to Buck.From the thing, Buck learned the law of the jungle: there was no fair to play and once down, that was the end of you.At the same time, his hatred towards Spitz was increasing significantly.Having not recovered from the shock caused by the tragic death of Curly, Buck received another shock that he was set to work like horses.Although his dignity was sorely hurt, he was too wise to rebel.On the contrary, he bucked down with a will and did his best.When the chilly night came, Buck learned from his own team-mates how to sleep in the extremely cold snow world.Buck’s smart was really appreciated by Perrault and Francois.When working with the other dogs, he was taught how to work well in a team.Though sometimes he was punished by others because of his mistakes, he learned quickly.Faced with hard conditions, Buck changed a lot to adapt the environment.To get enough food, Buck learned to steal others’ food while not being caught.The dominant primordial beast was strong in Buck and under the fierce conditions of trail life, it grew and grew.He adjusted himself to the completely new life and tried his best to avoid fighting with others, especially with Spitz.Though he hated Spitz very much, he was patient enough to wait for the chance of revenge.Spitz also realized that Buck had threatened his dominant position, so he took every chance to get rid of Buck.Thus it’s inevitable that the clash for leadership should come.Eventually the fight between the two began.After a fierce and thrilling fight, Spitz went down and Buck replaced of him.From then on, Buck began to build his dominant position of the small world.Buck was equal to the leader position.At the lead of Buck, the general tone of the team picked up immediately and their speed also increased sharply.When achieved their goal, Perrault and Francois had to leave Buck and other dogs because they had to take another task.Therefore Buck and his mates were taken charge by a Scotch half-breed.This time, Buck’s work was not light running, but heavy toil each day, with a heavy local behind.Though Buck didn’t like the job, he still worked well.But the trip was really hard.In addition, the lack of rest and the bad weather made their situation worse.After several days’ hard work, all the dogs were broken down.Among them, Dave suffered most and before long, he died.And the others were also exhausted.At last, new dogs replaced of them.Buck and his mates were taken away by three Americans.Since they had no experience of taking charge of dogs, it’s not long before they got into hard situation.They realized that their dog-food was half gone and the distance only quarter covered.What’s the worse, there was no poible to get dog-food.So they decided to cut down the orthodox ration and tried to increase the dogs’ travel.Besides, Hal took hard on the dogs.As a result, the situation of Buck and his mates was even worse.Eventually some died.With the dogs falling, all the three Americans were in desperation, while the dogs’ suffering was even worse.At the time, they met John Thornton.John sympathized with the suffering of the dogs deeply so he bought the dogs from the Americans.Then, Buck began a new relatively comfortable life.At the care of John, Buck recovered gradually.It’s from John that Buck felt humans’ affection again, so Buck was very grateful to John.To show his gratitude, Buck did whatever John asked him to and he rescued John’s life several times.Gradually their relationship became closer and they relied on each other deeply.However their peaceful life was soon ended because of the invading of the Yeehats.During the fight with Yeehats, John was killed.Buck was so sad and angry that he revenged on them.After that, a wolf pack invaded Buck’s valley.After a fierce fight, Buck beat the wolf and became the head of the wolf pack.Here may well end the story and Buck had finished the transformation from the ranch pet to ghost dog of the wilderne.3.My views on the book The novel refers to a series of stories about dogs.Each dog has its own character.After I read the novel, I find the dogs are very similar to humans, not only because they have the same feelings as humans like anger, sorrow, etc, but also they have the similar qualities.I would like to talk about some of the characters in the book which impre me most.(1)

Buck In my view, Buck is a perfect dog.Being a pet, he is worthy of the title of humans’ best friend.His loveline, loyalty and livingne bring a lot joy to people.While being a dog living in nature, his inner qualities began to shine.First, his strong adaptability is really amazing.We can’t help appreciating him.When taken to the chilly north from the warm south, Buck was smart enough to adapt the sudden change.He learned from his mates how to sleep in the extremely cold night.When dogs suffered starvation, Buck learned to steal others’ food while not being caught.Faced with club, he was clever enough to learn to obey while never loses his nature.We have to admit it’s surely a sensible strategy.All these illustrate how strong his adaptability is.Then he is masterful and patient.Suffering the pains that the club and fierce conditions brought to him, he tolerated and adjusted himself to them.What’s more, his endurance with Spitz shows Buck’s wisdom furthermore.Though his hatred towards Spitz was deeply, he waited patience until it’s time to fight.Buck’s another quality is his gratitude which can be seen from his loyalty to John.Because John had saved him, He tried his best to make John happy and never disappointed him.He also spared no efforts to save John’s life for several times at the risk of losing his own life.(2)

Spitz Spitz is the head of the team.He surely had excellent abilities to lead the team.While I don’t like him, even I hate him in some degree.That’s because of his cruelty and his narrow-mindedne.The death of Curly, a friendly dog who showed friendline to Spitz while led his own death, is an evidence of Spitz’s cruelty.And just because Buck had threatened his dominant position, he found every chance to get rid of Buck.So the fight with Buck showed his narrow-mindedne in some degree.(3)

Dave and Sol-leks

They are the representatives of hard workers with highly responsibility.Their goal in life was to play well on their positions.They cared little about fame which can be seen from the scene that Buck insisted on playing the leader role in the team while they had no interest.All they thought was to work well.Besides, they had the spirit of sacrifice：Dave was so weak that he couldn’t play his role any more, while he would rather die on his position.Their attitude to work really moved me.Apart from the characters, I also think about the relationship between morality and survival.From the perspective of the book, we may find that morality is a barrier of survival in fierce conditions.Buck survived succefully mainly because he got rid of the so-called morality that he had developed in comfortable environment.To survive, he did something that was against the morality such as steal.If he abided by morality, he was very likely to starve to death.So easily, we may come to the conclusion that morality is based on survival.If one’s survive has no security, he has little ability or energy to care about his morality, even he wants to.On that condition, to survive, he may even do something that is against morality.Thus, it’s not hard to understand why people living in poor life usually have little sense of morality.So when we talk about the Somali pirates, we shouldn’t just condemn their evil because no one is willing to challenge the law at the risk of losing his own life.The reason that the Somali pirates chose to rob is that they are too poor to live.So the best way to get rid of the threat of Somali pirates is to ensure their survival security, or we would never get rid of the threat only relying on taking hard on them.Similarly, a country wants to improve its citizens’ moral level, the sensible method is to develop economy and improve the people’s living standard.