Plot & Setting
Buck lives here at the beginning of the novel.
What is at Judge Miller's estate in Santa Clara Valley, California?
Buck's original owner.
Who is Judge Miller?
The Call of the Wild symbolizes
What is Buck's instinctual pull toward his primitive, natural self.
The point-of-view of the novel
What is third-person limited?
He wrote The Call of the Wild.
What is Jack London?
How Buck ends up in the Yukon.
What is he is stolen by a gardener's helper and sold into the sled-dog trade.
Who is John Thornton?
The novel explores the theme of survival of the fittest
Through the brutal environment, only the strongest and most adaptable survive.
Identify one example of foreshadowing in the Call of the Wild.
What is Buck's dreams of primitive man foreshadow his final transformation into a wild creature?
The historical period in the novel is set.
What is the Klondike Gold Rush of the 1890s?
The main purpose of the Yukon gold rush setting.
What is it provides a harsh environment that tests Buck's instincts and accelerates his transformation?
Spitz is different from Buck in the following ways.
What is Spitz is cruel, cunning and ruthless, while Buck grows into a fair but dominant leader?
Buck's final run into the forest represents.
What is his complete acceptance of his wild instincts and freedom from human control?
This is personified throughout the story and the reason is.
What is nature and instinct are personified to show their power and spiritual presence in Buck's journey?
The real-life experiences inspired Jack London to write the novel is
What is his time in the Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush, observing sled dogs and frontier life?
John Thornton dies by the hands of
What is a group of Yeehat Indians?
The lesson that Buck learns from the man in the red sweater is
What is he learns the law of the club and fang - that man with a club is to be obeyed?
London uses nature to comment on civilization
What is nature is depicted as pure and honest compared to the corruption and cruelty of human civilization?
London uses imagery to describe the wilderness.
What is vivid sensory descriptions create a sense of danger, beauty, and harshness in the northern landscape?
London uses the naturalism shape the novel's message by
What is it emphasizes that behavior and fate are determined by environment, instinct, and survival forces?
Describes Buck's transformation from the start to the end of the novel.
What is Buck evolves from a domesticated pet into a fierce, independent leader who answers the call of the wild and joins a wolf pack?
Explain the relationship between Buck and John Thornton.
What is they share mutual love and respect; John Thornton's kindness represents the last tie Buck has to humanity.
Explain how Buck's transformation symbolizes the conflict between civilization and the wild.
What it reflects the tension between man-made order and the natural instinct within all creatures?
Identify one motif that appears throughout the novel and explain its significance.
What is a motif of dreams and ancestral memories; symbolizes Buck's deep connection to his primitive past?
The Call of the Wild critique human greed during the Gold Rush era.
What is through the suffering of dogs and men obsessed with wealth, London exposes the moral decay and brutality caused by greed and materialism?