The reader will be reading through Buck's point of view he doesn't call gold by its name, he names it as a shiny metal. The characters that Buck meets throughout the story are either nice to animals and respect them or they're mean and cruel to animals.
Buck's physical appearance is what the bad men find appealing. He is very strong with a thick, furry coat. Buck is the main character, a dog who is part Saint Bernard and part Scotch sheppard.
This is a tale of an extraordinary dog, he is a peaceful animal until he is kidnapped-or dognapped- and forced to work the gold fields in the Klondike until he becomes the leader of his own wolf pack. So if Curly doesn't die, if Dave doesn't die, if all the dogs that are hooked up to Hal and Charles' sled don't die, if JOHN THORNTON DOESN'T DIE, THERE IS LITERALLY NO POINT TO READING THIS BOOK.Ī story of contemporary fiction for children eight to thirteen years old. BUCK BECOMES JUST AS BRUTAL AS THE WILDERNESS. And each major act of violence (which frequently end in death) pushes him a little closer to the edge until, whoops, John Thornton DIES, and he dies VIOLENTLY, and so Buck KILLS A BUNCH OF PEOPLE (ALSO VIOLENTLY) IN RESPONSE. Over the course of the book, Buck is CHANGING.
The brutality of the wild is, like, the driving force of the book! His domestic life was comfortable the wild is not. And, look, I'm not gonna say I made a mistake, but I am pretty close to weeding the Classic Starts based solely on their treatment of Call of the Wild.ĭeath and violence is a big part of Call of the Wild. I had to read the original Call of the Wild for a library program, gave up on about page 5 because I couldn't handle Jack London's writing style, and decided to read the Classic Starts edition instead. That said, Classic Starts is about the only line of abridged editions I haven't weeded out of the library collections because I've always felt that they do a better job keeping the spirit and intention of the original work than most. So, I am predisposed to dislike abridged editions. Taking stuff out to make a book "appropriate" for younger readers frequently changes the meaning of the book, at which point it's like, why even bother? The only abridged editions that I legitimately enjoy are the Wishbone books, or maybe the graphic novel adaptations if those count but I kinda don't think they do because the purpose in creating them is different. I don't think that children need bowdlerized versions of classic literature - kids can handle a lot more than we think they can, and there are other books with the same themes if your kid isn't ready for the original text, and if they're struggling with comprehension Sparknotes and Shmoop are better resources than an abridged edition anyway. As a general rule, I don't like abridged books.
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