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Mar 20, 2020 · After several years of grueling labor as a sled dog, Buck is rescued from cruelty by John Thornton (played by Harrison Ford), gets much needed R&R, and regains his formidable strength.
- Violence
- Perrault and Francois
- John Thornton
- Race and Representation
- What It Feels Like to Be A Sled Dog
London’s Buck sees a lot of it. When he first encounters the “man in the red sweater,” an anonymous character who handles dogs on their way north to be sold to prospectors, he’s beaten and beaten, “blood flowing from nose and mouth and ears, his beautiful coat sprayed and flecked with bloody slaver.” Later, Buck sees a friend and fellow Southland t...
In London’s novel, Buck’s first owners in the North are Perrault and Francois, a couple of rough but kindly men who deliver mail for the Canadian government. Perrault is French-Canadian, and “swarthy,” and Francois is “a French-Canadian half-breed, and twice as swarthy.” They speak broken English. London describes Perrault as a “little weazened man...
Harrison Ford’s character, who is also a heroic figure in the book, appears several times throughout the movie. He first encounters Buck when the dog is loaded off the boat that brings him to Alaska, then again when he’s purchased by the foolish and cruel Hal (Dan Stevens), and finally when he saves Buck from Hal’s clutches. Ford’s character also n...
London was intimately familiar with the pseudoscientific ideas around human hierarchy and eugenics of the time from reading the popular books about these concepts that educated people considered au courant. But he was also a socialist, and his published writing usually came down on the side of the oppressed. “London was capable of uttering abhorren...
“There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise,” London wrote, describing how Buck felt hunting a hare with his teammates. “And such the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.” The scenes in the movie where Buck and his team, un...
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Feb 22, 2020 · Here's a rundown of how the new The Call of the Wild movie compares to the book that inspired it, with the film's most significant changes.
For a story that has been around for over a century, Jack London’s The Call of the Wild still has a meaningful message for audiences today. This short advent...
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- By the Book
The Call of the Wild is a short adventure novel by Jack London, published in 1903 and set in Yukon, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The central character of the novel is a dog named Buck.
- Jack London
- 1903
Mar 16, 2023 · The Plot. The Call of the Wild follows the story of Buck, a domesticated dog who is stolen from his home in California and sold into the Yukon sled-dog market. Buck goes through a series of...
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Originally serialized in 1903, Jack London’s The Call of the Wild is an adventure story about Buck, a dog from the Santa Clara Valley who finds himself living the life of a sled dog in the Arctic wilderness.
