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1、The Call of the Wild,野性的呼唤,Jack London (January 12, 1876 November 22, 1916,An American author, journalist, and social activist A pioneer in the vigorous development of the world commercial magazine fiction One of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fi
2、ction alone,Introduction of the Story,As the story opens, Buck, a powerful Bernard-Scotch Collie dog, lives a comfortable life in Californias Santa Clara Valley as the pet of Judge Miller. The gardeners assistant, steals Buck and sells him to pay a gambling debt,In the following days, he was trade t
3、hree times,A pair of French-Canadians named Francois and Perrault who train him as a sled dog A “Scottish half breed” man working in the mail service who made him so tired that he can no longer trek A trio of stampeders : Hal, Charles, and Mercedes have little experience of survival in the wildernes
4、s made him exhausted and starving,Disgusted by the Hals treatment of Buck, Thornton cuts him free from his traces to save him and keeping him,Thornton nurses Buck back to health, and Buck comes to love him and grows devoted to him,Thornton then takes him on trips topan for gold,One night, he returns
5、 from a short hunt to find that his beloved master and the others in the camp have been killed by a group of Yeehat Indians. Buck eventually kills the Indians to avenge Thornton, and he then follows the wolf into the forest,Five events make Bucks wildness waken,Killed Spitz,Socialize with a wolf,Bea
6、ten by the “man in the red sweater,Curly was killed,The death of Thornton,Let him understand the law of jungle in nature,No matter how serious hurt, cant fall before the enemy,Let him know how to fight with others and be a excellent leader,Let him more and more like his ancestors, and fall in love w
7、ith nature and hunting,The last tie was broken, because the favorite man in the world and the claims of man no longer bound him,At such times he was aware of a great pride in himselfa pride greater than any he had yet experienced. He had killed man, the noblest game of all,Symbolic significance,Man
8、in the red sweater” The first obstacle when you step into society and you must know how to adapt yourself to this environment All dead dogswho cant afford and destroy by difficulties in the real life Spitzthe biggest obstacle in life and you must find a way to overcome it,ThorntonThe best friend or
9、lover in the world A group of Yeehat IndiansA catastrophe in life BuckA man is growing in the society and struggle to live on. At last, having gone through all the happy and unhappy events, he had found his field and become a charming and excellent leader in this field,Analysis of the Character,The
10、novella details Bucks struggle to adjust and survive the cruel treatment he receives from humans, other dogs, and nature. He eventually sheds the veneer of civilization altogether and instead relies on primordial instincts and the lessons he has learned to become a respected and feared leader in the
11、 wild,My view,In this book, through struggling to live and to study how to fight Buck from a tame dog change to a strength and feared wolf”. However, he lost a lot at this road of provoking wildness, such as comfortable life and beloved master. Although the result of his endeavor is honorable, the p
12、rocess is miserable. As the saying goes, ”You cant sell the cow and drink the milk”. In order to gaining, you must discard something in the road to success,At the end of the story, Buck returns each year, as the Ghost Dog of the Northland Legend, to mourn at the site of Thorntons death,黎亚萌,Thank you,知识回顾Knowledge Review,祝您成功