San Francisco Chronicle Top 100 Novels of the West
In 6th grade, our teacher (Miss Bock) made us do diaramas for our book
reports. One kid made a diarama of Call of the Wild that was amazing.
You looked through an aperture at the end of the shoebox and there were
trees & the dog & snow drifts, the whole nine yards. Meanwhile,
for my book, Jonathon Livingston Seagull, I pasted blue paper in the bottom
of a box & glued in a seagull. I believe our grades reflected
our respective efforts.
Reading Call of the Wild as an adult, one realizes that it's not actually
written for kids. Seemingly the tale of a dog in Alaska, it is actually
an argument that our primitive natures lurk just beneath a thin veneer
of civilization.
The fact that it can be read & enjoyed by youngsters is just a bonus.
(Reviewed:)
Grade: (A)
Websites:
Jack London Links:
-Jack London's Ranch Album
Book-related and General Links:
The
Jack London Collection
Jack
London-his life and books
Other recommended books by Jack London:
-The
Sea-Wolf (1904)
-White
Fang
If you like The Call of the Wild, try:
Adams, Richard
-Watership
Down
Dickey, James
-Deliverance
Farwell, Byron
-Burton:
A Biography of Sir Richard Francis Burton
Forbarth, Peter
-The Last Hero
Harrison, William
-Mountains of the Moon
Comments:
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Add yours here.
I had to read The Call of The Wild in 10th grade and I rather enjoyed it. It had emotion and adventure. It played on every emotion and really got me going and into it. Not many people enjoy it but I for one really did.
- Maddie Mcgraw
- Oct-27-2005, 18:21
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