野性的呼唤英文书评1000字左右

野性的呼唤英文书评1000字左右
野性的呼唤英文书评
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野性的呼唤英文书评1000字左右
The Call of the Wild is a novel by American writer Jack London.The plot concerns a previously domesticated dog named Buck,whose primordial instincts return after a series of events leads to his serving as a sled dog in the Yukon during the 19th-century Klondike Gold Rush,in which sled dogs were bought at generous prices.
Published in 1903,The Call of the Wild is London's most-read book,and it is generally considered his best,the masterpiece of his so-called "early period".[1] Because the protagonist is a dog,it is sometimes classified as a juvenile novel,suitable for children,but it is dark in tone and contains numerous scenes of cruelty and violence.London followed the book in 1906 with White Fang,a companion novel[citation needed] with many similar plot elements and themes as Call of the Wild,although following a mirror image plot in which a wild wolf becomes civilized by a mining expert from San Francisco named Weedon Scott.The Yeehat,a group of Alaska Natives portrayed in the novel,are a fiction of London's.[2]
Contents [hide]
1 Plot
2 Development
3 Adaptations
4 References
5 External links
[edit] Plot
Buck is a dog who leads a comfortable life in a California ranch home with his owner,a judge,until he is stolen and sold to pay off a gambling debt.Buck is taken to Alaska and sold to a pair of French Canadians who were impressed with his physique.They train him as a sled dog,and he quickly learns how to survive the cold winter nights and the pack society by observing his teammates.Buck is later sold again and passes hands several times,all the while improving his abilities as a sled dog and pack leader.
Eventually,Buck is sold to a man named Hal,his wife,and her brother who know nothing about sledding nor surviving in the Alaskan wilderness.They struggle to control the sled and ignore warnings not to travel during the spring melt.As they journey on,they run into John Thornton,an experienced outdoors man,who notices that all of the sled dogs are in terrible shape from the ill treatment of their handlers.Thornton warns the trio against crossing the river,but they refuse to listen and order Buck to mush.Exhausted,starving,and sensing the danger ahead,Buck refuses.Recognizing him as a remarkable dog and disgusted by the driver's beating of the dog,Thornton cuts him free from his traces and tells the trio he's keeping him.After some argument,the trio leaves and tries to cross the river,but as Thornton warned the ice gives way and they drown.
As Thornton nurses Buck back to health,Buck comes to love him and grows devoted to him.Thornton takes him on trips to pan for gold.During one such trip,a man makes a wager with Thornton over Buck's strength and devotion.Buck wins the bet by breaking a half-ton sled out of the frozen ground,then pulling it 100 yards by himself.Thornton and his friends return to their camp and continue their search for gold,while Buck begins exploring the wilderness around them and begins socializing with a local wolf pack.One morning,he returns from a three-day long hunt to find his beloved master and the others in the camp have been killed by some Native Americans.Buck finds some of them in the camp and kills them to avenge Thornton,later finding other members of the tribe,then returns to the woods to become alpha wolf of the pack.Each year he revisits the site where Thornton died,never completely forgetting the master he loved.
[edit] Development
Buck,the main character in the book,was based on a Saint Bernard/Collie sled dog which belonged to Marshall Latham Bond and his brother Louis,the sons of Judge Hiram Bond,who was a mining investor,fruit packer and banker in Santa Clara,California.The Bonds were Jack London's landlords in Dawson City during the autumn of 1897 and spring of 1898; the main year of the Klondike Gold Rush.The London and Bond accounts record that the dog was used by Jack London to accomplish chores for the Bonds and other clients of London's.(Dyer,1997) The papers of Marshall Latham Bond are in the Yale University Historic Collection.
[edit] Adaptations
Several films based on the novel have been produced.The 1935 version starring Clark Gable and Loretta Young emphasized the human relationships over Buck's story.The 1972 The Call of the Wild starred Charlton Heston and Mick Steele.A television film starring Rick Schroder was broadcast in 1993 that focused more on the character of John Thornton.
Another adaptation released 1997 called The Call of the Wild:Dog of the Yukon starring Rutger Hauer was narrated by Richard Dreyfuss and adapted by Graham Ludlow.There was also a Call of the Wild television series broadcast in 2000.