Thursday, September 10, 2009

Characterization on The Call of the Wild

The Call of the Wild is written by Jack London. He described very detailed and nicely on backgrounds and what was happening at that time. Also, he used some difficult vocabularies which helps to describe more specifically. So I could understand very clearly on what he wants to tell to the readers.

The main character in this book is a dog called Buck.
On page 17 to 23, I could find that Buck was protagnoist. It was because his owner very loved and cared about him. But the gold made him antagnoist. When somebody found gold in Northland, everyone rushed to Northland with strong dogs who could load heavy things. Buck was a strong dog and on page 24, his owner's gardener betrayed the owner and sold Buck to a man. From then on, he slowly became an antagnoist and eventually, on page 105, he fought with a leader dog and became the leader dog by himself.

In Southland, as I described, he was protagnoist. But in Northland, the dog who is protagnoist was dumb and stupid. On page 50, Buck learned a main problem by looking what happened to his friend. Shortly, his friend was killed by a leader dog and from that, he learned the main problem. What he found out was that his life was to eat or be eaten, or to beat or be beaten. So he became cruel and followed how the most dogs act. Because that was the only way he could survive from Northland.

On page 58, I could find that Buck was a fast learner. He figured out how to sleep cozily. The only thing he had to do was digging the ground. When he finished digging, he could go inside and sleep cozily. He figured out this faster than the most other dogs because he followed other dogs.

I really enjoyed reading this book and I think the best reason I enjoyed reading this book is because the author described very clearly.

P.S I will give 5 stars out of 5 stars on this book.

1 comment:

Michael said...

This was a little different, Young Woo, having to describe the character, an animal. You did a fine job with this piece. The Call of the Wild is not an easy book. Yes, London uses a very difficult vocabulary and sentence structure.

I'm anxious to read your best part of this book.