My reading journal 4 D組 廖芷婕

Book title : The Call of the Wild

Author : Jack London

Retold by : Tania Iveson

Publishing house : Penguin Readers

Because I have middle exam this week, so I don't spend much time reading English book. I borrowed the book from the library. And this book has been adapted to movie many times.

Buck was a strong dog. Buck leads a comfortable life as the pet of Judge Miller in sunny California. Judge Miller's gardener's assistant, Manuel, abducts the dog and sells him to a trainer of sledge dogs, which were in great demand due to the discovery of gold in the frozen lands of the Yukon. Slowly introduced to the brutality of his new life, Buck is forced to survive and adapt to conditions in Alaska and the Yukon. He works pulling sledges with other dogs, learns to steal food, and engages in power struggle with other dogs for the lead position in the sledge team. He becomes the leader of the sled team. He changes hands many times before he is eventually acquired by a kind and loving owner, John Thornton. When Thornton is killed by Indians, Buck goes into a savage anger and kills several members of the native tribe. Buck returns to the wild and becomes the leader of a wolf pack he met a few days after the death of Thornton. He answered the call of the wild.

The life of Jack London was as interesting as his books. His family didn't have any money, and he wasn't happy with life in Pennsylvania. His great life, when he was a child, was reading. Jack London left school when he was fifteen years old and he visited other places in the United States. He had many different jobs, but he never had much money. In 1896, he heard about the gold in northwest Canada. He went there because he wanted a new life, and he wanted to find gold. He met many interesting people and animals. He left the Yukon three years later without any gold, but with the idea for a good story. This was "the call of the wild." Two of his other books about the cold north are White Fang and The Son of the Wolf. London was very famous, and he made a lot of money from his books. But he always had money problems, and he drank. He died at the age of forty.