1. Call of the Wild
Chapter 4 Review

2. Observations Will you have to reread the chapter?
Did you look for potential test questions?
Add the colored ICONS.
NAÏVETE is the NOUN; NAÏVE is the adjective.
Use LOGIC when placing information in columns—you are reading a fictional text that is organized chronologically—take notes first; add the heading afterward. Then make any other special columns.
Do not AVOID difficult passages—remember to still take notes and then FLAG that section to ask the teacher.
So, who or what is the HAIRY MAN?
Observations

3. The next morning, Buck trots up to the lead position
Francois brings in Sol-leks; Buck springs upon him
Buck responds to the club, remembering the man in the red sweater
Buck had become wise in the way of clubs, circling and snarling out of the club’s range
Buck is in “open revolt”—he had earned leadership
Perrault and Francois throw down their clubs and acknowledge that they are beaten.
Buck trots up, laughing triumphantly, as lead dog
Buck Wants the Lead

4. Buck Excels as Leader Francois had undervalued Buck’s skills
Buck uses “judgment, quick thinking and quick acting”
He is SUPERIOR to even Spitz
Buck EXCELS at “giving the law and making his mates live up to it”
Licks sled team into shape
Is able to punish Pike to stop loafing and pull harder
Punishes Joe—something Spitz could not do—by smothering him with his weight
The general tone of the team picks up
TEEK and KOONA added; Buck breaks them in quickly
Buck Excels as Leader

5. Record and New Owners Make a record run (14 days at 40 miles/day).
Perrault and Francois are congratulated in Skagway and men admire their sled team (until the next “attention-getter” happens and eyes turn to it—15 minutes of fame)
Then they receive new orders from the Canadian government, forcing them to sell the sled team
Francois hugs Buck and weeps over him
They pass out of his life for good.
Record and New Owners

6. Working the Mail Train Scotch half-breed (a MAN) buys the team
Now works the MAIL TRAIN with a dozen dog teams—heavy toil each day, slow-going, mounded sleds of mail
Buck does NOT like the work, but he still takes pride in it
Monotonous life, machine-like regularity; one day like another; being fed is the one “feature” of the day
100 dogs in the train; Buck challenges three of them for supremacy
Working the Mail Train

7. Buck’s Dreams Buck loves to sleep by the fire SOMETIMES thinks of:
Judge Miller’s house, swimming tank, Ysabel, Toots
OFTENER, he remembers:
Man in the red sweater, Curly’s death, fight with Spitz, things to eat
Buck is NOT homesick
MOST POTENT MEMORY: the memories of his heredity that gave things a seeming familiarity—the instincts of his ancestors
In man, this is called GENETIC MEMORY
Buck’s Dreams

8. The Hairy Man This man is MAN’S ANCESTORS (caveman)
Sometimes he watches the cook and dozes off
He sees a man shorter of leg and longer of arm, with stringy and knotty muscles, matted hair, head slanted back; the man utters strange sounds, clutches a stick with a heavy stone, wears fire-scorched skins, is very hairy; does not stand erect; was catlike
This man is MAN’S ANCESTORS (caveman)
The man lived in perpetual fear of things seen and unseen
Around the man’s fire could be seen “eyes” like lit coals, two-by-two (beasts of prey)
Buck’s hair rises on his back and he whimpers until the cook wakes him up
The Hairy Man

9. The sled dogs are in poor condition and need rest, but two days after pulling into Dawson, they pull out again.
They had traveled 1800 miles since the beginning of winter
Buck is tired, but still does his job
Billee cries, Joe is sourer than usual; Sol-leks is unapproachable on either side
Back on the Trail

10. Dave suffers most of all, becomes irritable, cries out in the traces, falls repeatedly
Men could not find anything wrong
Scotch half-breed brings in Sol-leks as wheeler
The PRIDE of trace and trail is his—even sick, he cannot bear that another dog should do his work
Dave flounders in the unpacked snow alongside Sol-leks howling lugubriously.
The men decide to put Dave back in the traces—if he is to die, let him die happy.
When Dave falls the last time, the team leaves him behind; the Scotch half-breed goes back and shoots Dave
All the dogs hear it and know what happens.
Poor Dave