The call of the WILD
This is a story of a wonderful, kind and noble dog
named Buck and his adventures in the cold northern wild part of Canada. The
story was written by Jack London, a gold miner who was searching for gold in
Canada during the ends of the 19th century. The stories are inspired
by his experiences and the difficulties that the gold seekers had to confront in
the frozen wild northern side of Canada.
Buck was a dog who lived in Southern California in the
house of his owner who is a judge. The judge had a gardener who had lost a lot
of money, the gardener knew that the judge had a strong and healthy dog and
knew that some people with money will by a dog like that. The gardener sold
the dog to two men who worked in northern Canada named François and Perrault. These
people where cruel to Buck and forced him to do things by beating him. Buck had to live with other dogs and was forced
to pull a sledge. Among other dogs he
met a dog named Spitz with whom he fought for the leadership of the pack. He killed’
Spitz and turned into the new leader. Buck and the pack where forced to cross
five hundred miles carrying the sledge with the people and goods. Once they
arrived their destination the dogs were sold to the postmen who treated them as
bad as their previous owner.
Later, after finishing their job the postmen sold Bukc
and his pack to a family who were new in the North. They came on vacation and didn’t
know how to behave in this kind of dangerous weather. They spent few weeks living
with the family, and had to carry their sledge but these people had a problem,
they did not know how to take care of these kind of dogs, and treated them very
bad. The dogs couldn’t rest enough, they gave them to much food and then, they
were left without any at all. A few days
later the family was going to cross a frozen river, they came across with a man
named John Thorton who told them not to cross the river because it could break
the ice, but the family ignored him and before John´s eyes, they have beaten
Buck and try to force him to cross. John
got angry with them and forced them to give him Buck. That fact saved his life.
Few minutes later, while they were trying
to cross the river the ice got broken and the family and the dogs were drowned.
Buck loved his new owner and his new owner loved him
and took very good care of him. The winter passed and the spring arrived and
Buck had long walks with his friend and was happy with the other two dogs.
After few months two friends of John, who were gold miners arrived, and they
have started a search for gold. They were going down the river a strong wave
turned the boat up side down, Buck saved John´s life. Buck became a wild strong
animal. He become friend with a pack of wolves and used to go hunting with
them. One day when he was away, some Canadian Indians sized the camp and killed
John, and the other dogs. Buck was angry
he attacked the Indians and killed some of them, the rest run away. From that
day Buck become part of the wolves pack.
