Boekverslag : Jack London - The Call Of The Wild
De taal ervan is Engels en het aantal woorden bedraagt 779 woorden.
De taal ervan is Engels en het aantal woorden bedraagt 779 woorden.
Title: The call of the wild
Author: Jack London
Written in: 1903
Takes place in: 1897
Main character.
Buck: he is a very large and strong dog, he’s a crossing between a large St. Bernard and a Scottish Shepherd dog. He lives at Judge Millers house in the sunny Santa Clara valley.
Summary:
Buck had a good life, there was nothing he had to do and he was playing and sleeping all day long. Gold was found in Klondike at the Northlands. Lots of men went there because they thought they could get very rich. Those men needed a lot of sledge dogs to pull there sledges in the winter when there snow and ice was everywhere.
Manuel comes from a poor family and he has to take care of his mum and his little brothers and sisters. He is the gardener of Judge Miller's Place and he take’s Buck with him and sells
him for $50 to the saloonkeeper in San Francisco. A train take’s him to Seattle. In Seattle Buck was sold by the saloonkeeper to another man (in a red sweater). Buck is angry and he attacks the man in the red sweater. Although Buck is a strong dog, he can’t win from the man. The man has a club and he surely knows how to use it.
Curly dies in a fight with some half-wild dogs. Buck learns to fight back and to never go down. There are nine dogs in the team. Spitz is the leader because he is the bully and can control the other dogs.. Other dogs are Dave, Billy, Joe, Buck, Dolly, Sol-leks (that means Angry One) and others. If the dogs are going to sleep, they dug a hole in the snow this is new for buck and he thinks its scary to sleep under the snow.
Buck fought with Spitz because he had taken his place in his hole. Spitz bit him in his throat. Lots of half-wild dogs from an Indian village had entered that night and eaten all there food. The thirty-Mile river was not frozen so they had to wait. It take’s them 6 days to coss the river. It was fifty below zero Fahrenheit so it was very cold.
Francois made four moccasins (Indian shoes) for Buck because his feet were to soft to run all day long. Dolly went mad and Francois has 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 bite’s him in his foreleg, first left, then right. After biting, he brake’s them and Spitz dies.
Buck is a good fighter. He want’s to be the leader. But Francois had already decided that Sol-leks, the one eyed dog, would be the leader. Buck did not go to his old place for the sledge and finally he may be the leader. The team is better than ever before. 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.
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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