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, a prominent German philosopher. Although The Call of the Wild is first and foremost a story about a dog, it displays a philosophical depth absent in most animal adventures.

Ⅱ.Buck and his story 
“Old longings nomadic leap. Chafing at custom’s chain. Again from its brumal sleep Wakens the ferine strain” (Jack London, 1903:1). What a lonesome and philosophical poem, when I first read this poem from The Call of the Wild, I was moved deeply.
     The whole novel is telling a story around a gigantic dog, named Buck, his miserable and exciting experience is the story’s mainline; he is a strong and warm, long hair dog, lives at a big house in the sun—kissed Santa Clara Valley, Judge Miller’s place. But it comes to an end when men discover gold in the Klondike region of Canada and a great demand arises for strong dogs to pull sleds. Buck is kidnapped by a gardener on the Miller estate and sold to dog traders, who teach Buck to obey by beating him with a club and, subsequently, ship him north to the Klondike.
When Buck is first arriving in the chilly North, he is amazed by what he sees around him. After watching the death of Curly, who is attacked and killed by a pack of husky violent dogs. Buck is shocked and vows never to let the same fate befall him. Buck becomes the property of Francois and Perrault, two mail carriers working for the Canadian government, and begins to adjust to life as a sled dog. He recovers the instincts of his wild ancestors generally: he learns to fight, scavenge for food, and sleep beneath the snow on winter nights. At the same time, he develops a fierce rivalry with Spitz, the lead dog in the team. One of their fights is broken up when a pack of wild dogs invades the camp, from then on Buck begins to undercut Spitz’s authority, and eventually the two dogs become involved in a major fight. Buck kills Spitz and takes his place as the lead dog.
With Buck at the head of the team, Francois and Perrault’s sled makes record time. However, the men soon turn the team over to a mail carrier who forces the dogs to carry much heavier loads. In the midst of the trip, one of the dogs becomes ill, At the end of this journey, the dogs are exhausted, and the mail carrier sells them to a group of American gold hunters—Hal, Charles, and Mercedes.
Buck’s new masters are inexperienced and out of place in the wilderness. They overload the sled, beat the dogs, and plan poorly. Halfway through their journey, they begin to run out of food. After their quarrels, the dogs begin to starve, and the weaker animals soon die. At the end, only five dogs are still alive when they limp into John Thornton’s camp, still some distance from their destination. Thornton warns them that the ice is melting and they may fall through it. Hal dismisses these warnings and tries to get going immediately. The other dogs begin to move, but Buck refuses. When Hal begins to beat him, Thornton intervenes, knocking a knife from Hal’s hand and cutting Buck loose. Hal curses Thornton and starts the sled again, but before they have gone a quarter of a mile, the ice breaks open, both the humans and the dogs are falling into the ice hole.
Thornton becomes Buck’s third master in this strange land, and Buck loves him totally. He saves Thornton from drowning in a river, attacks a man who tries to start a fight with Thornton in a bar, and, most remarkably, wins a $1,600 wager for his new master by pulling a sled carrying a tho本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。