วันอาทิตย์ที่ 28 กันยายน พ.ศ. 2557

The Call of the Wild

                The story that I have read lately is "The Call of The wild". It is the story that talk about the dog, named Buck. The story presents the instinct of the dog "Buck". Once, it was a wild dog and people take care of it as a pet. Accidentally, there is an accident that brings its instinct again. Moreover, the story shows the ways that some kind of people treat to the tame and animals like dogs. What I can get from the book is the dog can be your best friends, but harm.

               Buck,is a huge and good dog. It is living the good life in California. Next, he gets stolen and put into dog slavery. He was pulled a ridiculously heavy sled through miles and miles of frozen ice with little or nothing to eat and frequent beatings. As the definition of a domestic dog, Buck is out of his element until he begins to adapt to his surroundings, and learn from the other dogs. Buck also starts having strange dreams about the primitive days of dogs and men, before the advent of cities or houses or culture. There are no rules or justice here, save for what is called "the law of club and fang," a kill-or-be-killed, ruthless way of thinking.

                Buck has a fight with the dog named, Spitz.  Afterwards, the sledge team changes human leader to control the sledge and the new people don't seem to be very competent. They’re bad drivers and end up killing everyone, including themselves into the ice. Fortunately, Buck is saved by a kind man named John Thornton, moments before the group death in an icy river. Buck becomes Thornton's dog who saves his life several times. Buck sets off on a journey with his new master and several other men, loving his new life, except for the need to run off and kill things in the woods every once in a while. Buck fights with temptation: stay with Thornton, or kill things? Be civilized, or be wild? And naturally there are several missed phone calls from The Wild and a lot of angry messages. 

                       At the end of the story: Call of the Wild, Thornton is killed by the Yeehat tribe, on which Buck later extracts vengeance. Buck is then free to join to the wild dog packs, but only on the condition that he is leader. The story represents that, if human is kind to the animals, the animals like a dog can be their friends. However, if human treat them cruelly, it will be harm to them. Therefore, both of human and animals want the other to be good for them. Likewise, all things can be beneficial and harm. 

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