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Book Review for “The Call of the Wild”  Philip Gu    Nov.18  __The Call of the Wild__, the book which written by Jack London, a great author in the American writer author; the significance writings by him is “White Fang” and The Call of the Wild, and this book is great because it shows the conflicts in our society; mostly contains the desire of power. “Buck” is the main character of this book. Its father was a shepherd dog and its mother was a St.Bernard dog, which causes Buck   has a noble blood relation-ship, because the greedy of the servant, Buck got sold to Alaska, from a noble suddenly dropped to a labor, but it gives Buck a chance to see there wasn’t only a world which only had full of sun lights. There was a world that didn’t have enough foods and care; fighting for foods was a normal scene happening in this strange land.  This book doesn’t need a high level of literature understanding; it was good for all ages to read this book. This book exposes how the real society looks like. The first night for Buck was tough; it was getting use to sleep with his master, but his mater just shouted at him and forced him to sleep at outside. Buck was learning quickly, although outside was about minus twenty degrees. It shows if you don’t want get kick out by this society, you must get integrate to this society first. Spitz, a dog that controls power in this group, Buck had an innate leadership skill, but he knew to wait for the chance. A leader, need followers, Buck instigated another dogs to resist Spitz’s command, Buck was hiding behind all those protest; then Buck suddenly appeared, and immediately killed Spitz, then he became the leader dog. Jack London didn’t only show the “bad” side, he wrote about the warm side of this society. Buck met a master that treated Buck as a friend, not like a slave, and the master was surprised that Buck can understand his words, but Jack London made a sad ending for this master on purpose.  Compare to “White Fang.” This was more about how can a person change because the environment. Buck became much tougher, more intelligence, and much stronger, he was like a religious, slowly reaching the higher level. It enveloped from a dog turned to the leader of wolf. “Strong people survive in this game, weak people out.” That was the best quote to summary this book.