back to the wild

Zander 2022-03-23 09:02:39

After watching the movie "The Call of the Wild", I deeply realized how brave and powerful the sled dogs are. Especially Buck in the story, the original author of this film is the excellent American writer with national color Jack. London, whose novel works are extremely prolific, Jack London was born in San Francisco on January 12, 1876, and died of a sudden heart attack on November 22, 1916. His childhood was spent in hardships. He worked as a newsboy, sailor, and squatted in prison while wandering. Later, he went to Alaska to pan for gold. When Jack London discovered that the Americans at that time (the end of the 19th century - the beginning of the 20th century) liked to go to the northern polar regions to find gold mines, which required a lot of sturdy dogs to pull sleds, so the image of Buck in the novel appeared. Buck was originally a One of Judge Miller's pet dogs, who had been living in the warm valleys of Southern California, was unexpectedly sold to Alaska (where the author's gold rush is located), a remote and cold place. Because of the abundance of gold, Taobao lovers from all over the world will gather here, which in turn requires a large number of sled dogs, and Buck is sold here for this reason. After entering the north, he realized how harsh the environment there, how hard life was, there were no laws that the south had, only the laws of big sticks and sharp teeth. There's no fair game there either. You must persevere at all times, never give up and fall. Falling is a weak person, and obeying the Southern Law is also a weak person. In this harsh environment, Buck's wildness is slowly awakened, first of all, angering the leading dog. He was a little bit tolerant in his approach, and then continued to refer to the lead dog Spitz to cause trouble, and finally provoked a fierce fight with Spitz, defeated him and killed him. In place of Spitz's original position, Buck is also very smart. How to pull the sled well and how to overcome the cold is really simple for him. He met five masters in the polar regions, the last one was named John. Thornton's people, he rescued Buck, and he cared about Buck very much. He didn't have to travel long distances by Thornton's side, let alone pull a sled. This was a real happiness in Buck's view, but unfortunately Thornton was in a gold rush. He was killed by the Indians at the time, which broke the last bond between Buck and people. Since then, Buck had no trust in people. He decided to join the wolf pack and return to nature... The image of Buck in the movie is a strong man Xiangzheng, saw the world of dogs through the world of people, and writing about dogs in novels is about writing about people, which endows dogs with human character and psychological activities, so the dog is called "he" instead of "it". I see a lot of good qualities in Buck, but how can we accept that ancient song he sang after he finally walked into the wolf pack and returned to nature?

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The Call of the Wild quotes

  • John Thornton: This is a map of the Yukon. My son was always reading adventure stories, crazy about the news coming out of the Yukon. Wasn't the gold, he didn't care about that, it was the mountains. He spent all day looking at maps and pictures of the mountains, dreaming about was on the other side, places no one had been, wild places. We could go, you and me, see what's out there. What do you think?

  • John Thornton: [narrates] There's a place in these mountains where a new breed of timber wolf roams, wiser than men or wolf, because of the dog that runs at the head of a pack. Now... they live without fear, raise their young and flourish.