The Banning Of Jack London's The Call Of The Wild

Jack London wrote The call of the Wild in 1900 and had it published 1905. The main character, Buck a St Bernard living the good life until he gets stolen and taken to Alaska. After that he is made a sled-dog who is sometimes beaten and starved. But in the end this is a transformation physically and mentally. The story takes place in Miami, Florida for a part of the story until he is stolen and taken to a remote part of Alaska.

Call of the Wild starts with introducing Buck, a mix breed between a St. Bernard and a Sheepdog. He lives on the wealthy estate of Judge Miller. Buck is soon sold into sled dogging and is sent to the Klondike region of Alaska and Canada. In Jack London’s Call of the Wild, the theme is that Buck not only uses a growth mindset to survive, but he also uses it to thrive.

More civilized dogs like Newfoundland’s and even huskies find primitive counterparts in the wolves whose howl at the end of the story was the very sound of the wild. London “doubles” the story into opposing worlds. Buck begins in the waking world of reality and ends in a silent, white wasteland which was also the world of dream, shadow, and racial memory. Buck survives to embrace life at the end of a book informed by death as the horrifying, rhythmic reflex of an entire order of things. Life in The Call of the Wild was a survival built on the death of other living creatures.

Most people think Jack London was a nature faker in his books, White Fang and The Call of the Wild, but he was not. A nature faker is an author that has been accused of humanizing animals which he surely was not doing. Jack London was a great writer that actually understood that animals had feelings way before the technology we have today. This claim has many types of evidence like the following: “How Smart are Dogs” by NOVA, “How Smart is a Dog Really” by Jeffrey Kluger, “Yes, Animals Think and Feel” by Simon Worrall, and “Nature Faker Controversy” by Ralph H. Lutts. This is important because with all this evidence, one can prove anyone wrong if they believe Jack London was a nature faker. In other words, Jack London has never been a nature faker.

In the novel of the Call of the Wild, Buck tried to adapt to his new and difficult life. He was forced to help the men find gold; he experienced a big transformation in him. At the end, he transformed into a new and different dog. Buck went through physical, mental and environmental changes. In my essay, I talked about how Buck was like at the beginning, what he changed into, and how he was forced to adapt his new environment, and underwent these changes.

Jack London had been an American novelist and is known for works such as The Call of the Wild, which McCandless greatly admired. Chris McCandless had greatly admired Jack London, going as far as carving “Jack London is King” at what came to be the site of his death. The Jack London quote used in the epigraph describes a scene in the forest but uses bitter imagery- yet somehow still romanticises it. “Alex” was unable to ever see past the facade London had built- given that London had hardly ever spent time in the wild himself and most definitely nowhere near as intense as Alaska. This chapter had described how he had been found and this quote leads back to that because though Chris was intelligent, he did not understand that London had to make nature sound beautiful.

The selected book I have chosen is “The Call of the Wild” by Jack London. This book takes place from a dog’s perspective during the Klondike gold rush. The dog, Buck, was once a domesticated pet living on the sun-kissed farms of St. Clara Valley. One day he was sold into a dog sledding business and is thrown into the world of snow, ice, sleds, and a team of other dogs to work with? What on earth could be so bad about that book that would put in on the “Banned and Challenged Books of America” list? You may not know, though, that there is so much more to this book than just the main concept of dog sledding.

Do you think teenagers should read a story that has killing or a lot of inappropriate content and violence? Others think it's good to have them read it but I think teens shouldn't be reading this because “The Call of The Wild” and “After an outpouring of literary outrage, N.C. Country Reconsiders Book Ban” prove to me that these books are bad. In the text they prove that teens shouldn’t read it because it has killing, shooting, and they do bad things to other people. Teens shouldn’t learn to kill. Teens also shouldn’t learn to shoot others and teenagers shouldn’t learn to do bad things to others and treat them badly.

He begins by telling the reader of the castles, vineyards, and railroads he crosses while on his path. However, this quickly takes a grim turn with his focus shifting to the past rather than the present. It seems that every structure he views while traveling down the river comes with a back-story that is not pleasant. As Layton’s focus shifts

Most people envision a perfect place as a place peaceful and secluded. However, this place may not always seem perfect. A canyon that is a perfect, untouched place is the setting for the short story All Gold Canyon by Jack London. This story has a human vs. nature conflict in it that is the basis for the whole story. To truly understand this story one must know that symbolism of nature, the conflicts, and why Jack London probably wrote this story.

“My imagination was shaped by the exotic nature of water in a dry southern California valley,” a quote from the book “A Literature of Place.” When Lopez talks about imagination he comes about how where we are from affects it. Which, in London’s story the man lacks imagination likely to be because he his not from the area he is in. The man has no way to live in the yukon because he was not born and raised there he is not familiar with the lifestyle or the difficulties he will come acrossed. No sense of imagination leads him to

Jack London’s short stories are held in high regard to this day, and are still considered to show the true harshness of mother nature and the ignorance of man. London himself knows all too well the unforgiving vexation of the Klondike Gold Rush, having developed scurvy and an injury that permanently affected the use of his leg. His stories are also influenced by the literary movement of naturalism, which focuses on extreme conditions that shape human mentality. London’s usual writing style consists of very long, drawn out descriptions of the characters or the scene around these characters. A large sum of his stories focus on the instincts of animals and the questionable survival of man in extreme conditions and situations.

Jack is keen to narrate his journey in first person, which gives the story many anecdotes. “Before Hamilton and I set out on the final journey we took several practice voyages…” Gantos 72. Jack is very literal and rarely uses personification, however similes are quite common when he compares two things. “She was like a lookout waving her arm and giving us the all-clear.” Gantos

At the age of 24, he dies on the Stampede Trail in Alaska while trying to live in the wilderness and survive on his own. His journey was inspired by many authors, such as Jack London,

Into the Wild “‘ He was unheeded, happy and near to wild heart of life. ’”Christopher McCandless, pseudonym Alexander Supertramp makes the daunting decision to go off grid and live a nomadic lifestyle. Author Jon Krakauer uses fervent diction and descriptive imagery to depict McCandless’s turning point in his life and beyond to his final days in the Alaskan wilderness. Krakauer choses a specific tone to narrate the story, not far from a hypercritical sense.