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Jack London's "The Call of the Wild"
Analytical Essay # 21692
Jack London's "The Call of the Wild"
This paper reviews Jack London's "The Call of the Wild" a novel about a dog's survival as an allegory for the primordial beast in humans.
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1994
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"ack London in "The Call of the Wild" uses the story of the dog Buck as a dramatization of his belief that there is a "primordial beast" within each of us that can be evoked given the right circumstances. This is what happens to Buck, a civilized dog who is taken from the home he has known and placed in a deadly, cold, and primitive environment and forced more and more to fend for himself, to defend himself against the encroachments of friend and foe alike, and for whom self-preservation becomes the most important and immediate value. As Buck is transformed from a civilized dog to a wild animal, so would a human being placed in the same situation find that his or her civilized trappings were striped away to reveal the savage living inside the veneer.The book begins with a poem that sets the stage and defines ... "
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Jack London's "The Call of the Wild" (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 13, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Analytical-Essay-Jack-London's-The-Call-of-the-Wild/21692
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" Jack London's "The Call of the Wild"" 15 January 2012. Web. 13 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Analytical-Essay-Jack-London's-The-Call-of-the-Wild/21692>
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