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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.
-