I recently read The Call Of The Wild by Jack London, it is about a dog named Buck whose owner tragically died. Shortly after Buck is captured and taken to a camp where he is beaten and malnourished by 'The Man In The Red Sweater'. After being there for some time he is purchased by two men by the names of Francois and Perrault to attend their sled team. During his time on the sled team Buck experiences more malnourishment and is constantly pestered by Spitz, the tight-fisted alpha dog known for murdering some of the team members. Buck later kills Spitz by breaking both of his legs and then finishing him off in an epic fight for leadership over the team. Soon after the incident Francois sells the sled team to brothers Hal and Charles and Charles' Wife, Mercedes. All of them tragically die when crossing an ice patch leaving the starving dogs behind. Buck wanders off and finally is discovered by John Thornton, he took Buck in and nursed him back to health. As Buck is laying peacefully he heard sounds coming from the forest, he had an urge to runaway but in loyalty to Thornton he stayed at the camp. Buck gets presented to the town and the towns people offer John ridiculous amounts of money after seeing Bucks abilities of pulling extreme amounts of weight but the offers are denied. On Bucks first journey with John Thornton, Buck wanders for a short period of time only to come back to his team dead along with Thornton and his crew all found pierced with Yeehat Indian darts. Buck tracked down the Yeehats and with flooding anger killed their chief. Shortly after Buck meets up with an old friend, a wolf and runs away with the pack.
I thought this book was quite morbid it has a very compelling story to follow and depicts Bucks' Loyalty, strength and friendship no matter what happened to him.
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