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Has anyone read 'The Call Of The Wild' recently? i need help on a short essay!

Answer 1

Yes, I have to have guidelines. You can't just assume I am going to write and essay about something I don't have guidelines for.

Answer 2

Just message me the guidelines and I'll write it for you.

Answer 3

Okay thanks! Just a minute :D

Answer 4

Buck, a physically impressive dog, is living the good life in California when he gets stolen and put into dog slavery. For him, this means pulling a ridiculously heavy sled through miles and miles of frozen ice with little or nothing to eat and frequent beatings. As the definition of a domestic dog, Buck is out of his element until he begins to adapt to his surroundings, and learn from the other dogs. Buck also starts having strange dreams about the primitive days of dogs and men, before the advent of cities or houses or culture. There are no rules or morality here (interesting, since Buck’s first owner was a judge), save for what is called "the law of club and fang," a kill-or-be-killed, ruthless way of thinking.

Buck becomes involved in a struggle for power with another dog, Spitz. They end up fighting and Buck wins, taking over as leader of the sled dog team. The team changes human management (new drivers) and the new people don't seem to be very competent. They’re bad drivers and end up killing everyone, including themselves. Fortunately, Buck is saved by a kind man named John Thornton, moments before the group death in an icy river.

Buck becomes attached to Thornton and even saves his life several times. Buck sets off on a journey with his new master and several other men, loving his new life, except for the need to run off and kill things in the woods every once in a while. Buck fights with temptation: stay with Thornton, or kill things? Be civilized, or be wild? And naturally there are several missed phone calls from The Wild and a lot of angry messages ("Where are you already?").

At the end of Call of the Wild, Thornton is killed by the Yeehat tribe, on which Buck later extracts vengeance. Buck is then free to run with the wild dog packs, but only on the condition that he is leader.
•Buck is a dog. Even though he has a personality and emotions, we need to still remember that he isn't human.
•He also seems to be living the good life. He lives on a ranch in California, enjoys sunny weather, and is loved by his master.
•So of course, something has to go wrong. In this case, the "something wrong" is that this guy Manuel, who works on the ranch, steals Buck and sells him off. Eventually, he ends up with this guy who wears a red sweater.
•There may be something up with the red sweater. Keep an eye out for more red things.
•Buck takes a beating from red sweater guy.
•Then two French Canadian guys, Perrault and François, buy Buck.
•There is much talk of Buck’s "worth." He’s like an alpha male, except a dog. An alpha dog.
•So Buck ends up on a boat traveling north. We see how sheltered he has been because he gets a bit freaked out by snow. He’s from California, remember? Snow is a new thing for him.

Answer 5

•In chapter 1, we met this other alpha dog named Spitz. Know what happens when two alpha dogs are thrown together? Yeah, exactly.
•Spitz, who is sort of running the show among the dogs, laughs when another dog, Curly, is violently (and explicitly) attacked by a mass of huskies.
•Buck musters up some resolve.
•Meanwhile, Buck is learning to be part of this sled-pulling team of dogs traveling vast distances.
•We meet the rest of the cast, like Billee (nice and friendly), Joe (borderline-evil), and Sol-leks (keeps to himself). Sol-leks also has a scar across one eye that makes him partially blind.
•Life starts to not be so great. The weather is freezing and Buck is getting minimal amounts of food.
•So he adapts – his body gets leaner and stronger and we see this idea of "law of club and fang." Basically that means that things are really primitive; brute force dictates superiority.
•Something is stirring in Buck, and since he isn’t eating enough, it’s not dinner. It’s his primitive instincts.

Answer 6

•Spitz starts picking fights with Buck, doing annoying things like stealing his warm sleeping spots. Stealing his sleeping spot is the last straw for Buck, and the two finally go at it.
•The fight is interrupted by a group of raving mad, starving huskies (a kind of sled dog). Some people might call this a deus ex machina.
•Everyone gets violently injured.
•Later on the trail, the dogs are on thin ice, literally, and they fall through a few times. Buck is like an anchor, keeping them from their tragic deaths in the icy water.
•The men, although they work the dogs hard, respect the animals as well, taking care of them at night by rubbing their feet.
•Dolly goes nuts and is frothing at the mouth and attacking Buck. We know what you’re thinking – who is Dolly?
•OK, fine, Dolly is one of the dogs. When she goes nuts, François kills her.
•Spitz, seeing that Buck is tired from having run away from the crazed dog, believes this is a fair and opportune moment to fight. Spitz vs. Buck, Round 2:
•Spitz sort of has the upper hand, but François puts an end to the fight by whipping Spitz.
•The two men debate over who will win the next fight. Our money is on Buck.
•Buck joins in on some nightly howling sessions with the wolves.
•Mutiny in the ranks – against Spitz, who is the current leader.
•Buck starts chasing a rabbit in a crazy, bloodthirsty sort of way.
•He and Spitz fight over the rabbit – Round 3: it’s a close one, but Buck wins.

Answer 7

•Buck takes over as leader. (It’s not really that simple, there’s a lot of establishing his dominance in front of the men and convincing them that he’s the right dog for the job.)
•It turns out that he’s even better than Spitz, and the team prospers as much as a starving pack of dogs in the frozen North can prosper.
•Buck and the dogs are handed over to new masters, François and Perrault exit. In a sort of philosophical realization that everything is transient, Buck wonders at how men seem to pass in and out of his life.
•Buck starts dreaming a peculiar recurring dream in which he goes back in time and sees himself sitting at the feet of a primitive man. Basically, he’s getting in touch with his primitive side of hunting, killing, and hanging out in caves.
•Life is rough for quite a while.
•Then Dave, another one of the dogs, gets sick, but refuses to leave his place at the sled. Dave soon dies nobly.

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•The dogs finally finish their exhaustive journey and they’re in a shoddy state.
•They meet these characters who become their new owners: Hal, Charles, and Mercedes the wife/sister. (We mean, sister to Hal and wife to Charles.)
•These people (and especially Mercedes) have enough luggage for about eight people because they don’t know how to pack light.
•These wise old guys watching Hal, Charles, and Mercedes pack all their stuff onto the sled keep insisting their sled is too heavy.
•Hal and Charles are arrogant, proud, and not so nice. They refuse to take advice, and the dogs aren’t able to pull the heavy load.
•Mercedes starts coddling the dogs, insisting that the men don’t hurt the dogs.
•Finally she throws out some stuff. Unfortunately, she keeps her hairdryer and nail polish and throws out food and water.
•They get going, but soon enough everyone starts to starve.
•The work has taken its toll on Buck, who is physically weaker and considerably less attractive than before this whole thing started.
•Billee gives up and falls over, so Hal kills him.
•More of the dogs die.
•On a more positive note, spring has arrived.
•But spring means thinner ice. Sound familiar? It does to Buck, and he refuses to lead the team onto the frozen water.
•A power struggle ensues. Hal beats him, but to no avail.
•This guy, John Thornton, happens to be sitting around watching this scene play out. Thornton threatens Hal with death if he doesn’t stop beating Buck. Thornton then cuts Buck free from the sled.
•Buck and Thornton watch as the entire sled – dog team and human drivers – continue on their way and then fall into the river.
•Buck licks Thornton’s hand, which means genuine affection, we are told.

Answer 9

•There is much discussion of love, and more specifically, the love between dog and owner. Buck feels more for Thornton than he ever has for a human before – including when he was leading the good life back in sunny California.
•He shows his love by biting Thornton gently.
•Remember Buck’s feelings of transience? Well he does, too, and he is afraid Thornton will leave him. He therefore refuses to let the man out of his sight.
•Buck is still feeling the primitive vibes. You can take the dog out of the wild but you can’t take the wild out of the dog.
•He starts hearing this same "call from the wild;" he has this yearning to go live in the woods and hunt and howl.
•To demonstrate how loyal Buck is, Thornton tells him to jump off a cliff. Buck starts to do it, but Thornton pulls him back. It was the least he could do.
•Thornton gets in the middle of a bar fight and Buck gets viciously protective.
•Buck saves Thornton from near drowning. This scene is heroic and dramatic and definitely worth a good read.
•Seems like Buck has gotten a reputation for being awesome. Some men bet Thornton that Buck can’t pull a thousand-pound load. Thornton bets with money he doesn’t have. Fortunately for him, Buck pulls through and wins his master a ton of money.
•Now everyone wants to own Buck, and they offer Thornton obscene amounts of money for him, which Thornton refuses with such words as "go to hell."

Answer 10

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Answer 11

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