Post #4: Conflicts

Conflicts

Throughout The Call of the Wild, I can across outstanding conflicts such as, Buck vs. man, Buck vs. nature, Buck vs. Instinct and being a pet vs. a wild animal; but I believe the main conflict is survival of the fittest and adapting. Buck is kidnapped from his home and is instantly thrown into a life were you must fight to survive every minute of the day or there is no mercy for you. Once you go down, your dead; there is no getting back up. The Call of The Wild fallows Bucks transformation form being a domesticated house pet to a merciful less wild dog. He has had to adapt to his new life and most everything is different, new, and frightening. 

Post #3 : Point of View

While reading The Call of The Wild ,I found that it is told threw a unique point of view. In this novel, what you’re reading is the author telling you the story and telling you exactly what the main character is doing, thinking, feeling etc. like its threw his eyes. The main character, the dog Buck, is loyal, strong, intelligent, and dedicated. London was able to get the feelings of all the character across to the reader every well threw using anthropomorphism; giving human like qualities to animals. For me, the made the book much more enjoyable then I think it would have been if it was just the narrator speaking. In this book, London has used the narrator and the characters in a way I haven’t read before in other books.

Post #2: Setting

Setting

In the main body of the book, the setting in this novel is explained like a travel log on the dog sled journey through the Yukon. As Buck is bought and sold to different owners and teams threw out the book, Buck travels thousands on miles across the Klondike. The climate in the book setting is dangerous and wild. Threw the narration describing Bucks surroundings, my attention was always kept and always sparked interest. Its do or die through the entire book and you never truly know what is going to happen next, of if the lovably main character is going to live. The Yukon environment is frozen plains and thick forest. The book is written about Bucks life over a couple year, so the season change many times and London has described it so well that you a truly see what he is talking about.      
As I’ve been reading this novel, I feel every connected to the land and all the characters within the story. Setting is so important to a story and, I believe, is the difference between a great story and one you wish you had not bothered to read. It makes all the difference and takes you, the reader, along for the journey too.

Post #1: Theme

Loyalty

One of the main themes in this novel is loyalty. All threw out this novel, Buck’s loyalty is unbreakable from whoever or whatever has obtained his devotion or trust. When Buck is stolen he is taken to the Klondike were he learns that it is a place were loyalty differs from his past southern home in Santa Clara Valley, where his kidnapper took him from. Under the law of Club and Fang, loyalty is of a different matter. When Buck was with his original family, he knew a loyalty that was instantly expected from him which he gave to this master willingly, for he loved him. But once you keep reading, the kind of loyalty that Buck develops and feels once he is up in the Klondike, seems to be much greater and stronger then he has ever known to have felt. Buck also discovers that loyalty is a virtue that often does not count for anything, although being loyal and working together is the only way to survive. When Spitz , a fellow team member, fights Buck when the hole group is fighting off a group of ravines unknown huskies, Spitz goes against the loyalty of their team and proves he’s disloyal to all. This could be devastating for the hole group. After this event in the novel, Buck finds it easy to convince the other dogs to go against Spitz because it is obvious he care more about himself then for any of their lives. It will be interesting to see what happens with these to characters and how this conflict is resolved.