Boekverslag : Jack London - The Call Of The Wild
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Hoofdpersoon: Buck (dog)

Schrijver: Jack London



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Buck lived at a big house in the Santa Clara Valley in California. The name of the house: Judge Miller's Place. He is four when the story begins (1897). Gold was found in Klondike at the Northlands. Lots of men went there. Those men need a lot off sled dogs. Manuel, the gardener of Judge Miller's Place took Buck with him and sold him for $50 to the saloonkeeper in San Francisco and a train took him to Seattle. In Seattle sold the saloonkeeper Buck to another man (in a red sweater). This man attacked Buck. After the attack Buck saw that he had no chance against the man with the club.



The man in the red sweater sold him to Perrault for $300. Curly (another dog from Perrault) and Buck were taken by boat from the warm Southland to the cold Northland. Francois and Perrault were his new masters, they were fair. On the boat met Buck two other dogs: Spitz and Dave. Those are two other sled dogs.



Curly died in a fight with other dogs (wolfs). Buck learns to fight back and never to go down. There were nine dogs in the team. Spitz was the leader. Other dogs were Dave, Billy, Joe, Buck, Sol-leks (that mean Angry One) and others. If the dogs are going to sleep, they dug a hole in the snow.



Buck fought with Spitz because he had taken his place in his nest. Spitz bit him in his throat. Lots of half-wild dogs from an Indian village had entered and eaten all there food. The thirty-Mile river was not frozen. The water was too wild. It took them 6 days to go. It was fifty below zero Fahrenheit. That¡¯s forty-five ¢ªC. Francois made four moccasins for Buck because his feet were to soft. Dolly went mad and Francois had to kill him with an axe. Then they come in Dawson. They are there for seven days. Spitz caught a rabbit by taking a clever route. Buck fought with Spitz by moving to him shoulder to shoulder. Then he suddenly bit him in his foreleg, first left, then right. After biting, he broke it and Spitz died.



Buck was a good fighter. He wanted to be the leader. Francois had already decided that Sol-leks, the one eyed dog, would do that. Buck did not go to his old place and finally he may to be the leader. The team was better than ever. The Thirty-Mile River was covered with ice, and they covered in one day the distance that had taken ten days coming in. In one run they did sixty miles over the lakes beyond White Horse Rapids; they flew so fast that the man whose turn it was to run was pulled behind the sled at the end of a rope. And on the last night of the second week they came down the mountains to the sea at Skaguay. It was a record run.



Other people sold Buck. With his team and with a dozen other teams they must carrying private mail to Dawson. They should have had a ten days¡¯ or a week¡¯s rest at least. But two days later they set out again. Dave was getting very wake. He couldn¡¯t do his work anymore and was shot.



The trip from Dawson to Skaguay took them 30 days. In about 5 months they travelled 2500 miles. During the last 1800 miles there were only 5 days of rest. There were new owners of the team. The names of the new owners were Hal and Charles. When Buck came in the owners¡¯ camp he saw woman. It was Mercedes. She¡¯s Charles wife en Hal¡¯s sister. It's springtime. Hal whips the dogs because they can¡¯t do their work. They needed rest and the loads were too heavy for the dogs. Mercedes stops Hal from whipping. The sled was frozen fast so Hal broke it out. Hal and Charles took some more dogs. They are now with fourteen dogs but they didn¡¯t have enough food for the dogs. Very tired they started the next morning. The dogs were not strong enough so every day they didn't reached far enough. Billy couldn¡¯t go on anymore. He falls and was killed with an axe. At one night they reached John Thornton¡¯s camp. Hal knew that the trail was bad because spring was coming. Thornton thought Hal was a fool. Hal attacked Buck very badly. John Thornton came in between and rescued Buck. Hal went away with the rest of the team but they drop down in the ice. The dogs and the humans disappeared into the water.



When John Thorton froze his feet in December the year before, his friends made his comfortable and left him to get well, going up themselves up the river. The first days Buck spend his time at rest. Skeet and Nig were John's dogs. They were kind to him. Buck likes John Thornton because he saved his life. He also met love for the first time. Buck often took John Thornton hand in his mouth and then made marks in it. Buck never gave an enemy a second chance.



In Circle City there was a fight between ¡®Black¡¯ Burton, a bad, unpleasant man and a newcomer at the bar. When Thornton stepped between them Burton hit him. Buck jumped at Burton and saved Thornton. Later Thorton fells into the water and Buck jumped into the river twice and could save his master. Thornton made a bet about Buck. If Buck could draw 1000 pounds of weight he win $1000. He could also sell his dog for $1200. He just took the bet and won.



John Thornton and his friends Pete and Hans go to the east. They want to look for gold. When John Thornton go into the wild, he only took a handful of salt and a rifle. When spring comes again they didn't find a mine, but in the valley there, was a lot of gold. They put the gold in leather sacks. At one night Buck hears a howling sound. It was a wolf. He became friendly with him. Now and then he went into the forest and stayed away for some days. Buck is very good at hunting. He is very patient. He once stayed with a moose for 4 days until he was tired out. Buck discovered that John Thornton¡¯s camp must have been attacked. Dogs were lying around dead. Indians dancing about. Buck killed a few of them. He followed John Thornton¡¯s blood trail to the lake. He knew he was dead but didn't see his body. Then he heard some sound from the wild. He had some fights with wolves. He won them all. He will always remember John Thornton. He was the only man who held him back from going to the wild.
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