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These two events represent Buck’s departure from a loving and comfortable environment to an environment of “club and fang.”
What is? Buck’s first club beating and Curly’s death
This represents Buck’s freedom from servitude to humans
What is? Thornton cutting Buck’s traces free
She symbolizes the material world and consumerism
Who is? Mercedes
Represents leadership and hierarchy; also submission to human will
What are? Buck Traces
Represents Buck’s submission to the “Call of the Wild”
What is? Buck’s attack on the Yeehats
Evolves from a California domestic pet to a wild Artic animal
Who is? Buck
Keep’s Buck from heeding the “call of the wild”
Who is? John Thornton
“Devil-Dog”
Who is? Spitz
Inexperienced sled masters who seek Gold
Who are? Mercedes, Charles and Hal
Near death by pulling sled, never quitting his work.
Who is? Dave
Original Owner of Buck
Who is? Judge Miller
The reason many Americans rushed to Canada with Dogsleds in 1897
What is? Klondike Gold Rush
The start of the fight between Spitz and Buck, Buck wins
What is? Rabbit Chase
What London is discussing in this line: “Buck knew, and every dog knew, what had taken place behind the belt of river trees.”
What is? Dave is shot
Proves that Buck is a true leader
What is? Buck assumes Spitz’s place event when threatened with a club
Buck considers these new owners to be “lazy and sloppy”
Who are? Mercedes, Hal and Charles
The owners run out of chow for the dogs, they feed them this instead, which is not enough nourishment
What is? Horsehide
The fate of Charles, Hal and Mercedes
What is? They fall through the ice
The test Thornton gives Buck for obedience
What is? He commands Buck to jump of a cliff, Buck starts to command him and Thornton stops him
Buck wins this bet for Thornton
What is? Buck can pull 1,000 pounds
Civilization vs Wilderness Individual vs Group
What is? Theme
The attack of the wild starving dogs to the camp, predicts the later hunger the dogs experience with Hal
What is? Foreshadowing
Protagonist of the novel
Who is? Buck
Late 1890’s, California and the North
What is? Setting
The following is an example of this: “Every animal was motionless as though turned to stone.”
What is? Simile
Make your wager
Breed(s) of Buck
What is? St. Bernard and Scottish Shepherd