The Call of the Wild (English Edition‪)‬

The Call of the Wild describes the story of a big dog named Buck who fights with a group of dogs and escapes into the primeval forest. Buck had been a civilized dog of Judge Miller’s family, and had lived all his life in a warm valley in southern California. Later, he was sold to Alaska, a cold, remote and gold-rich state in the north of the country, where he became a sled dog. It witnessed the merciless and struggle between peoples, dogs and the strong and the weak, so it learned the principles for living regardless of the moral principles of life. It became fierce, witty and cunning. Finally, under the call of wolves in the forest, Buck revived its nature of wolf, escaped into the jungle and returned to the wilderness. In the novel, Jack London depicts the world and human nature in the eyes of dogs incisively and vividly with anthropomorphic techniques, reflecting the cold reality of capitalist society and the objective reality of “survival of the fittest and survival of the fittest”. Buck yearns for and runs towards freedom, which is also the embodiment of the writer’s pursuit and ideal. The Call of the Wild is a remarkable work about animals, which shows great courage in the struggle to protect themselves and destroy their enemies.