The Call Of The Wild

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Term Paper Title	The Call Of The Wild
# of Words	1250
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	5

The Call of the Wild
Jack London

Plot-
The story begins by us learning about Buck the central character.  He is a pampered dog that lives in the Santa Clara Valley in California near the time of the Gold Rush in Alaska.  He is neither a housedog nor a kennel dog gut enjoyed both environments.  Bucks owner is a judge and enjoys a very comfortable lifestyle.  The hired gardener is the traitor to the family.  He has a thing for gambling, and his salary does not permit him to support his hobby and his wife and many children.  So when the judge was away the gardener sold the dog to a stranger to help his gambling habit.  Buck at first did not realize what was happening until the stranger started to lead him away from his house.

He was shipped on a baggage car and sold to another stranger.  For two days and nights he was on the train and did not have anything to drink or eat.  Buck finally arrives in a backyard and meets a man with a red sweater.  When he lets Buck out of the crate, he is furious.  He hurls his weight at the man is knocked down senselessly by the man's club he does this over and over again till he finally collapses on the ground with blood an saliva all over his coat of golden fur.

He was then later sold to a little man named Perault.  He was very old and spoke English very jerkily. Perault's partner was named Francois.  They were both French Canadians that were fair and honest.  They knew the dogs to well to fall for their tricks.  They boarded the ship Narwhal and left Seattle for the North in search of gold.  Buck learned the "Law of Club and Fang" that when you went down you never got up.  He learned that same night that to sleep warm in cold areas to get in snows drift and keep out of the wind.  All of this time that Francois and Perault were in the camp they had been acquiring dogs for a dog sled team to go in search of gold.

When they finally set out of camp Buck had a hard time keeping up with the rest of the team his feet pads got torn and his 140 pounds did not help either.  He ate very little to get his weight down. HE could not sustain himself with one and a half pounds of sun-dried salmon a day so he started stealing bacon to satisfy his hunger pangs.  He went to stealing the food of Francois and Perault and got away with it.  Soon after they set up a camp on the shore of the lake and started to feed the dogs when a wild pack of hunger-driven huskies attacked the camp for food.  They tore into the sled dogs with ferocious velo...

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