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Call of the Wild (Classic Collection)

Call of the Wild (Classic Collection)

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Rating: 1 stars
Summary: I thought this was SUCH a boring book!
Review: Ok, matbe it's just me, but what's so interesting about reading about a bunch of dogs in a sled team. This book was so boring and really hard to follow at some points. Also, it doesn't relate to my life at all. It was the worst book I have ever read.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: If you read books with adventure and competition, this is it
Review: The Call of the Wild is an excellent way to enjoy yourself for a short period of time, because it is a short book. London is a brilliant man with an excellent imagination. He totally brought Buck's (the main character)adventue to life with excellent use of adjectives and adverbs. He is 1/2 wolf and 1/2 dog. If you are above the age of 14, this book is too easy. Anyone 14 and under should love this classic, epecially wolf lovers. And the way London transforms Buck from an ordinary housedog to a wild wolf is truly amazing. I give it 5 stars, I hope you will too.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Here it is compared to his short story, "To Build a Fire"
Review: Brian Benulis Comparing "To Build a Fire" with The Call of the Wild

Jack London's short story "To Build a Fire" and his novel The Call of the Wild have much in common. Both stories seem like Jack London was writing fictional happenings on what happened to him in the Klondike. They are both about surviving in the freezing Yukon Territory. In this essay, I will relate the classic theme of survival, the conflict Character vs. Nature, and the similar settings, which is in the cold, harsh winter of the Yukon. Both settings are in the snowy, wilderness type climate. With the temperature 75 degrees below zero in the "To Build a Fire" and cold enough to freeze your eyes shut in The Call of the Wild. It seems they are both during the gold rushes in the Yukon since it specifies in "To Build a Fire" the man was headed for the old mine. And in The Call of the Wild the whole plot was that the man was searching for the place, Barracula, which was said to have gold. The setting also had a big affect on the characters and their roles. In both stories, nature acts as the main character. The characters had to fight the cold in both stories. It is almost a Character vs. Character scenario. You have to survive nature. It's another character that will kill people, like in "To Build a Fire" it murdered the man. Every move the men and even dogs make in both of the stories, they have to take precautions of the snow, ice, temperature, hidden springs, and many other obstacles. Like for example, sometimes there are hidden springs in which both men characters fell into. Foot after foot of snow on the ground slows down travel. Nature is the number one thing someone can think about when traveling and looking for gold or shelter in the Yukon in negative 75 degrees weather. It creates conflicts and roadblocks throughout both stories. You must survive it. Both stories have strong survival themes. In "To Build a Fire", the man and the dog have to go to the shelter, which is the old mine through -75 degrees and many obstacles that are hard to survive past. For example, the hidden spring the man fell into. He had to survive not to be an ice cube after being drenched in below freezing water. Not only that, but to get out of the spring in the first place. In The Call of the Wild, the dogs on the sled had to keep going and survive from being shot if the collapsed. Although, if they all stopped, shooting them would be no good since you would be stranded and die in the middle of the Yukon. If you have noticed, these paragraphs all connect onto each other through a main idea about nature. What it is, surviving it, and most importantly of all, how it effects us. I have read other books about surviving the winter. When I read this short story and saw the movie of The Call of the Wild, it really reminded me of those books. Sometimes Mother Nature becomes an actual character, and beats you down.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: As good as it gets
Review: The Call of the Wild would stand up to about anybody's benchmark for literature when "literature" meant something. This book is too good to be crammed down the throats of today's English classes. Give 'em Judy Blume. The tiny fraction of good readers will discover authors like London on their own.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: I hate it
Review: This book is the stupidest book Ive ever had to read. All the people that have read are now that much dumber.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: lacking in dialogue
Review: it was a liittle confusing. but all in all it was an " interesting" book, but because of some of the narrative writing it was boring, and because of some of the events that were happening ,the dog fight, it was " disgusting".

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Help me on my book review please...
Review: Can someone give me a description of Buck and Spitz? Use your own words and tell me your own personal opinion about them, and also, John Thorton. THANK YOU.... Also, give me some examples of symbolism used in the story. THanks, it's due on Wednesday.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: classic, lives up to its term
Review: Call of the Wild is, in fact, in so many people's head as a classic story about the faith and trust in savages. An animal, a beast, and its true courage. Beautiful book and a true inspiration.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Half of this book was spent chattering about absolute gibber
Review: This book was really boring. Ten through fifteen paragraphs in this whole book was spent blabbering about stuff I really didn't need to know, like how strong that dog Buck was, and how bloody the dogs were after the fights they had. Did he REALLY have to say that one dog lost an eyeball? All the words seem to be thrown together like he was trying to sound "mysterious" somehow.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Confusing
Review: Jack London wrote this book so that he could win a Newbery Medal. That is why he used complexed words. I am reading this book in school. It is very confusing because it is hard to understand.


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