HaCKeRz KrOnIcKLeZ 3/HaCKeRz_KrOnIcKLeZ.iso/anarchy/essays/term/callwild.txt

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Dear Jake,

        I will be glad to tell you about a really great book I read
lately.  It is called Call of the Wild, by Jack London.  It has 104 pages and is a fiction book.
        The Call of the Wild has a very interesting plot.  It is
centered around a St. Bernard and Scotch Shepard mix, named Buck.  At home, which was a large house called Judge
Millers Place, in the sun kissed Sanata Clara Valley, he ruled over all dogs.  Buck was Judge
Miller's inseperable companion, until a man named Manuel, who was the one of the gardener's helpers,  commited
a treacherous act.   Manuel, to cover his Chinese lottery gambling debts, stole Buck from his sound
sleep and brought him to a flag station called College Park.  There, the exchanging of money took place.
 It was simple.  Manuel needed money to pay off his gambling debts, and Buck was a prime candidate.
Buck was loaded onto an express car to Seattle.  When he got there, he was bought by two men named
Perrault and Francois.
        He was loaded onto a ship called the Narwhal and tooken to the
Yukon, where he was to be trained as a sled dog.  There were other sled dogs that Buck came to know well,
each with their own unique personality.  After only a short time of training, Buck was a sled dog,
traveling with the team of huskys and mix breeds from Dyea Beach, to the town of Dawson.
        After several trips with Perrault and Francois, Buck was traded
to a know nothing, gold seeking family.  they knew nothing, or hardly nothing, about managing a sled
team.  There trip began with a very bad start.  The family had loaded up their wagon with too much unneded
baggage, and it was top heavy.  as the dogs began to pull away and pull around a curve, the baggage
tipped over along with the sled and thus the unnecessary baggage was discarded, and the trip was barely
completed because of harsh weather, inadequate supplies, and poor management skills of the dog handlers.
All except a man that went by the name of John Thornton, perhaps the only sane one in the group.  After on
e of the men repeatedly beat on a dog, Thornton became enraged.  He threatened to kill the man, and
shortly after, he unhooked the beaten Buck from the sled, the rest of the family left John Thornton.  A
few minutes later, the rest of the family that left thornton behind fell through some cracked ice and
drowned.  That left Buck and Thornton to fend for themselves.  the time of this book is in the great gold rush
era in the Yukon and Alaska.  The rest of the book concludes what happens to Buck and John Thornton and
some of the extrordinary times they have together.
        I think you will enjoy this book because it is full of
adventure.  Not once did i want to put the book down.
        Call of the Wild is a book that more truly represents but does
not actually depict what the gold rush era was really like for the people and the dogs who toiled through the
harsh Yukon Territory.  That, in itself, makes the book more interesting to read.
        I also think you will enjoy reading this book because it is a
classic, and written by Jack London, whose prior achievements speak for themselves.  This respect towards the
author allows you to focus more on the text and not the credibility of the author.
        The final reason i think you will enjoy this book is that it
tells about the goods and bads of wilderness life.  it doesn't just lean to one side.