The Call of the Wild and Selected Stories

The titular novel is undoubtedly a strong story, but the real linchpin of this collection is the weird and haunting short story, "An Odyssey of the North", which, as suggested by its name, displaces London's familiar Northern setting into the inexplicable cosmology of the ancients. ( )

I teach this book each year to my 8th graders, and love it more each time. I think it's a great story about morals. ( )

Buck was a strong and intelligent dog with thick coats own by Mr. Miller's. Buck was the best dog in Mr. Miller's house. In 1897, men found gold in cold Arctic. All the people were interested in this gold. realized that Buck doesn't want to hurt him. Then they started to play with each other. They became like brothers. One day Buck went to play with his new friend and when he came to the camp. He saw all of his friends dead. He saw one man dancing in the middle of the camp. He jumped and killed him. He became crazy. He kills more men like a wild animal. Then he sat beside Thornton body and he started to cry. Suddenly, he saw many wolfs around him. He started to fight with them. Then he saw his brother, the one who was playing with him. Manuel was one of Mr. Muller worker. He was so greed. He can do anything to get money. One day, Manuel stole Buck quietly from Mr. Miller's house and sold him for one bad man who was living in Seattle. During his travel, Buck stayed without any food or water. He was so angry because he was treating badly from the people who were taking him to the bad man. The bad man was always beating Buck with club hardly. One day one French - Canadian man (Perrault) came, he saw Buck and he likes him a lot. He asked the bad man if he can buy Buck from him. The bad man agreed. Perrault bought other two dogs also and took them to Alaska by boat. Buck's new life in the cold weather was too hard. He met a lot of dangerous men and dogs. By the days he started to get use of the new life. Francois and Perrault have many dogs. But the best dog among all of them was strong and intelligent dog called "Spitz". He was the boss. Buck was always fighting with Spitz because he wanted to be in Spitz place. One day Buck and Spitz fought with each other unit Buck killed Spitz. Buck now he was the boss and all the dog was afraid of him. After few days Francois and Perrault finished with their trip and they found a lot of gold. They don't need the dogs now anymore. They sold the dogs to two American men (Charles & Hal) who were new in this country and they don't have any experience of how they can treat the dogs. They were treating dogs badly. One day, when these two American men were in their way to Dawson, one man called (Thornton) saw Charles & Hal beating the dogs with club. He came and fought with them. Then he cut Buck's harness. Then Charles and Hal started to run away. Suddenly they fell into the ice river and they all died. Thornton took buck with him and took care of Buck. Buck started to love Thornton a lot. Day after day, Thornton became the best friend of Buck. Buck helped his new friend a lot. One day two of Thornton's friends came (Hans and Pete). They all were treating dogs in a good way. After few months, they decided to go far from their city to find gold. At the end of their trip they found a nice place between small mountains. There was river and in the bottom of the river they found cold. They took all the cold and put them in their bags. They stayed there for more than one day. One night, Buck heard a voice coming from the trees. He saw a wolf. The wolf was afraid from Buck and he started to run away from him. But Buck followed him. After that the wolf Buck went with them to the forest. He became like them a wild dog. All the people heard about what happened in the camp and they were afraid of Buck. Buck lived his life like a wild wolf but he was not wolf he was a strong and intelligent dog.

Ghanim Abdlla MLI
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