Story Details
The first item that Buck steals.
What is bacon?
This dog is Buck's chief antagonist until Buck defeats him in a fight to the death.
Who is Spitz?
This gambler kidnaps Buck.
Who is Manuel?
"Charles and Hal begged her to get off and walk, pleaded with her, entreated the while she wept and importuned Heaven with a recital of their brutality" (London 65-66).
What is pleaded or begged?
"In the meantime the astonished team dogs had burst out of their nests..." (London 29).
Subject: (team) dogs
Verb: Had burst
Onlookers laugh when Buck sees this for the first time.
What is snow?
This dog goes mad and tries to attack Buck.
Who is Dolly?
The man who transports Buck from his kidnapper to the man in the red sweater receives this amount of money.
What is $50?
"The wonderful patience of the trail...did not come to these two men and the woman. They had no inkling of such a patience" (London 64).
What is slight suspicion or idea?
"Francois was angry" (London 45).
Subject: Francois
Verb: was
Spitz has this color fur.
What is white?
Sol-lek's name means this.
What is The Angry One?
This nineteen-year-old shows his inexperience and lack of compassion, mercilessly whipping the dogs.
Who is Hal?
"...Buck saw a slipshod and slovenly affair, tent half-stretched, dishes unwashed, everything in disorder..." (London 57).
What is messy or untidy?
"Hal had no fight left in him" (London 71).
Subject: Hal
Verb: had
Buck mutinies when this dog is given the lead dog position after Spitz is killed.
Who is Sol-leks?
These two brothers, very different in personality, are added to the dog sled team by Perrault.
Who are Billee and Joe?
The first dog to die under the inexperienced hands of Hal, Charles, and Mercedes is this dog.
Who is Dub?
"There were great stables, where a dozen grooms and boys held forth, rows of vine-clad servants' cottages..." (London 4).
What is clothed?
"The general tone of the team picked up immediately" (London 47).
Subject: tone
Verb: picked (up)
This quality makes Buck successful in his fight with Spitz.
What is imagination?
This dog is the first to discover the rabbit; however, he is unsuccessful in catching it.
Who is Dub?
Hal trades this for barely edible food for the dogs.
What is his Colt revolver (a gun)?
"He did not know why, but he felt oppressed by the vague sense of impending calamity" (London 8).
What is misfortune or disaster?
"Dazed, suffering intolerable pain from throat and tongue, with the life half throttled out of him, Buck attempted to face his tormentors" (London 8).
Subject: Buck
Verb: attempted