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野性的呼唤缩写作文英语

野性的呼唤缩写作文英语

野性的呼唤缩写作文英语The Call of the Wild is a classic novel by American author Jack London. The story is set in the Yukon during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush and tells the story of a domesticated dog named Buck who is stolen from his home in California and sold into the brutal life of an Alaskan sled dog.Buck's journey from a pampered pet to a wild, fierce animal is a powerful metaphor for the human struggle for survival in a harsh, unforgiving world. The novel explores themes of instinct, adaptation, and the conflict between civilization and the natural world.As Buck is forced to adapt to the harsh realities of life in the wild, he becomes increasingly savage and feral. He learns to hunt, fight, and survive in a world where only the strongest and most cunning creatures can survive.Despite his transformation, Buck never loses hisloyalty and affection for his human masters. He remains fiercely loyal to those who show him kindness and respect, even as he becomes more and more wild and untamed.The Call of the Wild is a timeless classic that continues to resonate with readers today. Its themes of survival, loyalty, and the struggle for self-discovery are universal and timeless, and its vivid portrayal of the natural world and the creatures that inhabit it is both powerful and haunting.In conclusion, The Call of the Wild is a masterpiece of American literature that continues to inspire and captivate readers more than a century after its initial publication. Its exploration of the human struggle for survival in a harsh and unforgiving world is as relevant today as it was when it was first written, and its portrayal of the natural world and the creatures that inhabit it is both beautiful and awe-inspiring.。

野性的呼唤缩写作文英文

野性的呼唤缩写作文英文

野性的呼唤缩写作文英文英文:The call of the wild is something that has always intrigued me. It's this primal instinct that seems to tugat my soul, beckoning me to explore the untamed beauty of nature. I can't help but feel a sense of freedom and exhilaration when I hear the howl of a wolf or the roar ofa lion. It's like a reminder that there is a world outthere that is wild and unbridled, waiting to be discovered.I remember one particular experience when I was hikingin the mountains. As I made my way through the dense forest, I could hear the rustling of leaves and the chirping of birds. Suddenly, I heard a deep, guttural growl that sent shivers down my spine. It was a bear, and I could feel my heart racing as I tried to remember what I had read about encountering wild animals. In that moment, I felt a surgeof adrenaline and a rush of fear, but also a strange senseof excitement. It was as if I was being tested by the wild,and I had to rely on my instincts to stay safe.The call of the wild isn't just about encountering dangerous animals, though. It's also about connecting with the natural world in a way that feels raw and authentic. Whether it's watching a sunset over the savanna or feeling the spray of a waterfall on my face, there's something about being in the wild that makes me feel alive.中文:野性的呼唤一直让我着迷。

野性的呼唤英文作文

野性的呼唤英文作文

野性的呼唤英文作文英文:The call of the wild is something that has always intrigued me. It's that primal instinct that we all have deep within us, the one that tells us to go out and explore, to hunt, to survive. It's what makes us human, and yet it's also what makes us animals.For me, the call of the wild is something that I feel every time I step out into nature. Whether it's hiking in the mountains, camping in the woods, or simply taking awalk in the park, I feel that connection to the natural world that reminds me of my place in it. It's a feeling of freedom, of being unencumbered by the trappings of modern society, and of being able to truly be myself.But the call of the wild is not just about being in nature. It's also about pushing myself to new limits, both physically and mentally. It's about taking risks, tryingnew things, and not being afraid to fail. It's about embracing the challenges that life throws at me and using them to grow and become a better person.中文:野性的呼唤一直是我所感到的一种神秘的力量。

【英语专业】英美文学学期论文-野性的呼唤(英文)

【英语专业】英美文学学期论文-野性的呼唤(英文)

My Comment on “The Call of the Wild”【英语专业英美文学学期论文】Is it the howl coming from Buck from uncharted wild that knocks my heart softly? Finishing the well-known novel, “The Call of the Wild”, written by American writer Jack London, this feeling strikes me and has been in my mind with the face of Buck.Considering what Buck has experienced in his life, I have to admire the strong mind and courage of Buck. And after chew the cub, what Buck has given me takes up a high position. And questions stand out. What could I learn from the book? Should I learn? What does the author want to say? Merely that a hundred-pound-dog? What is of significance to be used in my own life? A list of feelings fills me up. Absolutely, there is much that has realistic value for me to connect it with practice.Adaptation is the first. At the beginning, Buck lived a civilized life in the Judge Miller’s, enjoying a pleasant life which can be described as a spell full of happiness. After been purchased to Northland, he was just a dog to be used to do hard work. It is fitting to think it at the point of death and living, for great changes bring survival or death. I am glad to see that what is helpful to survival is chosen. Is it wise or shameful, diplomatic or foolish? Our wonderful life, however, depends on our lives. So there is nothing wrong for Buck to gain the opportunity to live under the club of the man in red sweater. Life is not as easy as spelling this four-letter-wordand we must meet its needs. What we have experienced may elucidate this problem. Just like we left hometowns to receive education here, we are all required to make decision by ourselves and do what we may be not accustomed to. Besides, it is necessary for us to adjust quickly to resume campus life. The new environment where we are in, luckily, is much better than the one for Buck. Therefore, thinking that a dog makes it and making up our minds to do, we are able to adapt ourselves to the fresh environment and walk on the road to Rome.Character is the next. Characters serve for success. In terms of this, what is unavoidable also has influences. Whether it is fine all the time or not is beyond our ability, while which kind of character we should form is not. The final say is handled by us. Nine team-dogs including Buck show us various sorts. Dave cares nothing surrounding, and Joe can be known from his perpetual snarl and malignant eyes, for example. It is easy to find people who are similar to them around us. Asking nothing, giving nothing and expecting nothing, or being sour and introspective, or with excessive good mature.Our eyes have enough ability to distinguish the good between the bad. Living companied with fierce competition in society is like in the snow plain where Buck lived at some aspect, in my opinion. So we had better equip ourselves with basic characters and have them root in heart deeply. Stiffness, fearlessness, hardiness and conscientiousness are required.They are essential to help us find where we exactly are. Or shaky ground will be under our feet.Then it is action. Someone could realize his unparalleled dreams very easily. However, it only happens in daydreaming. Would anyone succeed without efforts and actual action? Certainly impossible! No matter how marvelous your words and thoughts are, they are dead if you do not take action to let they come true, resembling flowers that are never watered.In the novel, Buck never gives up to Spitz, the ferocious leader in team-dogs, with the attention that defeating him. His mind operates, so does his action. Victory finally is owned by him. We can learn to do as what he has done. Exercising the guide of words and thoughts in practice may make perfect. After all, action is heavier than empty ideas. Chinese writer Hu Sheng had an article, “Think and Do”, laying great stress on taking action after thinking. “To think should combine with to do”deserves to be remembered.Another is law. As a naturalistic writer, Jack London believed in the natural law that the survival of the fittest. Only by adapting to all kinds of irresistible power from nature and enduring difficulties can one exist in the view of London. A poem of Shakespeare says, “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” Since on the stage, laws are needed to be carried out. For Buck, it is the law of club and fang. For us it means to catch up with the pace outside.Think about two phenomena. Buck has ever stolen food to protect his stomach from being empty. Jack London once stole oysters of fishermen. Despite differences between them, they both force themselves to obey the law, giving an answer to what people often say, life is cruel. Probably one day we have to bend to other’s will in order to gain opportunity to live. Admittedly, it is life.Friendship is also included. This novel displays us several emotions exemplified by the relationship of Buck and Thornton. One shows his loyalty and the other has care. As a matter of fact, we are unable to deal with our whole business alone. Friendship plays a vital part of every walk of life. Some methods to make friends and communicate with others are hidden behind the words. Trust is necessary, so is a hot heart. What’s more, we should take advantage of the touch with people to be an indeed friend. Supposed in trouble, warm hands would be given at once from dear friends kindly.The novel teaches me much that can do me good through nature and activities animals and human beings have in common. Nevertheless, there is something passive, I think. Buck becomes himself as one rules large demesne among wolves in the wild, having freedom, honor and power. If we pay too much attention to the result, to what Buck has accomplished, we may be led to a wrong way. As people are given a natural appetite not to be downtrodden, our primitive desire may be motivated, dreaming ofbe the empire, caring nothing about whatever measure we take. This point requests enough attention.All above is what I have learnt from the excellent book, “The Call of the Wild”. Though unable to understand it thoroughly, I have received a lot from this book published in the twentieth century in the twenty-first century, for it widens my vision and gives me enjoyment and lessons as well. I take a fancy to both the amazing book and the dog Buck.。

野性的呼唤英语毕业论文

野性的呼唤英语毕业论文

Chapter One IntroductionJack London, whose real name is John Griffith London, was born on January 12, 1876. He was a child born out of wedlock, “the illegitimate son of W.H.Chaney, a talented and self-taught man who became an astrologer, and Flora Wellman, an eccentric woman from a wealthy Ohio family who was both a spiritualist and music teacher.”(吴,1900:111). London grew up in extreme poverty and had really rich life experiences which were rarely experienced by other writers in the world. “From earliest youth he supported himself with menial and dangerous jobs, experiencing profoundly the struggle for survival that most other writers and intellectuals knew only from observation or books.”(吴,1900:111) He began to work for life after he finished primary school and later became a head of punk with many skills. Then he worked in a cannery and as an oyster pirate, seaman, jute mill worker, and coal shoveler. After crossing much of the continent as a member of “Coxey’s Army”, he was jailed for thirty days for vagrancy. At this point he determined to educate himself in order to improve his own condition and that of others. Those specific life experiences provided abundant materials for London’s l ater works. In 1900, he produced his first stories The Son of Wolf which won him the nationwide reputation. Since then because of his unique style of works, his stories were loved by almost every one in the world.The Call of the Wild is one of the masterpieces of Jack London, which was combined with his experiences in the north when he was engaged in looking for gold. It is a story about a dog named Buck. Buck was a large dog given birth to by a St. Bernard dog and a collie mixed breed dog. He was wild, sensitive and with the heavy wolf identity in deep heart. He was diligent when he pulled the sled while he showed his fierceness and wit when he was fighting. Originally Buck had lived in a judge’s family and had enjoyed a comfortable life, but he was stolen by the judge’s gardener and sold to the post office. In the end, he was sent to Alaska to pull mail sled in cold area. Buck was once sold to two French Canadians and was treated badly by the crueland inexorable men. After a period of time, he had learned how to pull sleds and kept trekking day after day in the ice and snow. To acclimatize himself better to the new cruel conditions, he learned to steal to comfort his hungry and to quench his thirst by getting water from breaking the ice.And in order to compete for the leadership, dogs were fighting each other all the time, when someone even got killed. Buck was a natural leader and was physically superior. He was brave and witty and never remained in a subordinate position for a long period. So Buck finally beat the old leader Spits and became a new leader. He seemed to have a good managerial competence. By using incentives and penalties in appropriate situations, Buck managed the dog team orderly, because of which he made the trip processing smoothly. In Buck’s heart there were no longer compassion and mercy, only the simple principle embraced: to kill, or be killed; eat or be eaten.Buck had been exchanged several times by several owners. After he finally had been hurt greatly, John Thornton kept him and offered him intensive care which made him recover very fast and a sincere affection between Buck and John Thornton had engendered. Buck was very faithful to his benefactor, John Thornton. He twice risked his life to save John’s. Unfortunately, John was killed by Indians in the process of fossicking for gold. With unbridled rage, Buck killed several Indians, by which he avenged John. Eventually, he responded to the call of the wild in his deep heart, got into the forest, joined the wolf company, and lived a primitive animal life.The location in the novel London selected was in the north of Canada, the world of ice and snow in Alaska near the Arctic, where the environment was extremely dangerous. The wilderness where there was no peace, life and body were at risk all the time, made it an unavoidable reality that only the strong survived in such a physical environment. And in that situation, any efforts to survive were reasonable; gentle noble, and humility were all weak performance there. Therefore, Buck adapting quickly to the environment in the North was actually the hymn of natural selection and survival of the fittest. This article will focus on both the acquisition of ability and changes in thoughts of the hero Buck, while he experienced the changes of the environment, to elaborate the survival of the fittest ideas in The Call of the Wild.This article is divided into three chapters. An analysis of the Survival of the Fittest ideology in The Call of the Wild is to be given by an exploration into the changes of Buck's life environment, his thoughts and how his ability is acquired. Then Buck’s adaption to the changing environment is understood, which reflects the idea of the survival of the fittest. In a sense, the idea of survival of the fittest in the novel is closely related to the author Jack London’s personal experiences.Chapter Two An Analysis of the Survival of the FittestIdeology in the Call of the Wild2.1 Acquisition of Buck’s ability2.1.1 How to become a sledge dogIn Judge Miller’s house, Buck had never done anything coolies. But when he was a sledge dog, he had to work hard like an animal under the deterrence of stick and whip. At first he had no idea about what the sled was, but he learned how to pull the sled from the experienced dogs and his masters.“Francois was stern, demanding instant obedience, and by virtue of his whip receiving instant obedience; while Dave, who was an experienced wheeler, nipped Buck's hind quarters whenever he was in error. Spitz was the leader, likewise experienced, and while he could not always get at Buck, he growled sharp reproof now and again, or cunningly threw his weight in the traces to jerk Buck into the way he should go.”(London, 1994:16)After he was taught by his host and under the help of his colleague, he had learned how to master a sledge immediately. This was the essential skill for him to live. He observed constantly in the work and mastered how to work very soon in the practice. Labor made him developing quickly in the intelligence and the physical strength, Bothe his mind and body had experienced a lot. His muscles became to burliness; his toe had already become stronger and tougher; he also could endure all kind of the pain and suffering; “He knew enough to stop at ‘ho,’to go ahead at ‘mush,’to swing wide on the bends, and to keep clear of the wheeler when the loaded sled shot downhill at their heels.”(London,1994: 16)He had been accustomedto pulling sled day after day –started working before dawn, came to a halt till the setting sun. In the dog team, Buck did his best to be a sled dog and was diligent while doing things all of which were to adapt to the environment of dog team.2.1.2 How to survive in the northWhen Buck arrived in the snowy wilderness the first time, he did not know how to keep warm to sleep. He went to the m aster’s sleeping tents, and was driven out without any doubt, until “he went back to investigate. A whiff of warm air ascended to his nostrils, and there, curled up under the sn ow in a snug ball, laid Billee”. (London, 1994: 17-18) Buck observed the way Billee had slept in the ice, and then he confidently selected a spot, and with much fuss and waste effort proceeded to dig a hole for himself.Buck was a heavy eater. For this reason, while the food was provided with only one pound of dried salmon each day, Buck was hungry all the time. And plus the scramble for food by other dogs, Buck had to require a big dietary adjustment.“In the aspect of eating, he had get rid of the former kind of picky, choosy and refined dietary habits, and learned to eat fast. On one hand he avoided from physical pain depend on no snatching the food; on the other hand, he learned to steal the food to fill his belly. And his gastric juice could absorb the nutrient bit by bit, very clean, showed his superior ability to adapt. "(Chen, 2009: 66)He developed extremely acute visual, olfactory and auditory sense. And even when he was asleep, he could hear the faint sound, and distinguish whether it indicates the danger or safety. When snowflakes fell on the feet becoming hard ice, he could use the teeth to bite off the ice in the middle of the toes. If he was thirsty, and was just near the ice river, he would choose the thinner ice in the river, and then used his hard front foot to knock on the ice, drinking the water smoothly. The most incredible skill of Buck was that he could forecast the wind direction before the nightwhich made even Perrault and Francis (the master of the dog team) amazed. Buck kept learning skills and methods living in north, gradually, he fit the new way of living in the harsh environment in the north.2.1.3 How to fightFighting skills were essential outdoor survival skills. In the Call of the Wild, Buck's fighting skills are described vividly in the fight with Spitz for the position of the lead dog.Buck was a southern dog. In the eye of Spitz, the southern dogs were all weak. But, Buck was different:“Buck was t he exception. He alone endured and prospered, matching the husky in strength, savagery, and cunning. Then he was a masterful dog, and what made him dangerous was the fact that the club of the man in the red sweater had knocked all blind pluck and rashness out of his desire for mastery. He was preeminently cunning, and could bide his time with a patience that was nothing less than primitive.”(London, 1994: 30)Just because of this, Buck has been always regarded as a thorn in Spitz’s eyes, which led to the fight between the two dogs inevitable. In the activity of catching a rabbit, after Buck drove in upon Spitz while Spitz was just catching the rabbit, he knew the moment to fight with Spitz was coming. At the beginning of the fight:“In vain Buck strove to sink his teeth in the neck of the big white dog. Wherever his fangs struck for the softer flesh, they were countered by the fangs of Spitz. Fang clashed fang, and lips were cut and bleeding.”(London,1994: 35)But Buck could not penetrate his enemy's guard. Then he warmed up and enveloped Spitz in a whirlwind of rushes. Time and time again he tried for thesnow-white throat, where life bubbled near to the surface, and each time and every time Spitz slashed him and got away. Then Buck took to rushing, as though for the throat, when, suddenly drawing back his head and curving in from the side, he would drive his shoulder at the shoulder of Spitz, as a ram by which to overthrow him. But instead, Buck's shoulder was slashed down each time as Spitz leaped lightly away.It was to hard for Buck to fight with Spitz at the beginning, because Spitz is a veteran and Buck had not fit the way Spitz had fought. However, as the fight progressing, Buck finally came up to a strategy to deal with Spitz. “He fought by instinct, but he could fight by head as well.” (London,1994: 36)He rushed, as though attempting the old shoulder trick, but at the last instant swept low to the snow and in. His teeth closed on Spitz's left fore leg. There was a crunch of breaking bone, and the white dog faced him on three legs. Thrice he tried to knock him over, then repeated the trick and broke the right fore leg.With his front legs chewed off by Buck, Spitz was not able to fight any more. He could only howl. At this moment, it seemed to come into a similar scenario: two dogs were fighting, while a group of onlookers around them. It was just like the scene when Curly was murdered. But in this time, the victim was Spitz himself.“He saw the silent circle, with gleaming eyes, lolling tongues, and silvery breaths drifting upward, closing in upon him as he had seen similar circles close in upon beaten antagonists in the past. Only this time he was the one who was beaten.” (London, 1994:36)This battle ended with Buck’s victory. Since then, Buck became the lead dog. The fight between Buck and Spitz reflected the principle of the “survival of the fittest” in the primitive society. Especially in the last, the scene that Spitz was tear by a group of dogs, the rules of survival emerged vividly.2.2 A brief introduction of the survival of the fittest ideologyThe Call of the Wild is a story about the hero Buck who was sold to the dog dealer by the servant of his master during the Great Gold Rush in the U.S., which compelled him to fall into a strange, harsh living environment, while he was originally living a comfortable life. Since then, he did his best to fit the cruel environment he was thrown into and got back to nature and became the head of the wolves after the loss of his beloved master. Buck, the hero can be a very strong manifestation of the survival of the fittest ideology because of his survival by constant adaption to environmental changes.“The theory, ‘Survival of the fittest’, is the law of biological evolution which implies that plants or animals adapt to the environment to survive or to die—it is the biological survival rule of brutal biosphere.”(付, 2009: 85-87) That is to say the essence of survival of the fittest ideology is that only those who adapt to the environment can survive in the harsh conditions; on the contrary those who can not adapt to the environment will eventually be eliminated by nature. This theory highlights that in the changing environment only those who can fully adapt to the environment can survive. The hero of this work, Buck, in order to fit changes of the environment, gave up his proud self when he was living as a judge’s dog; obeyed “the law of the club and tooth”; he learned to break the ice to quench his thirst; Soon he honed his feet and learned to pull sleds, and also learned to dig in the snow to sleep. For the sake of filling his belly, he tried hard to keep his food away from other dogs. He changed himself, an elegant gourmet, to a ravenously devouring dog like other dogs. At the same time, driven by hunger, Buck would not attend to the virtues of “not take others staff” and learned to steal the food to eat by takin g advantages of the time when the owner was not prepared, and didn’t get realized by the owner. These behaviors show his ability to adapt and also reflect the survival of the fittest ideas.2.3 Changes of Buck’s li ving environmentA better understanding of the survival of the fittest ideology can be achieved by checking the living environment described in the story. In fact, Buck’s living environment encountered a sudden change in the novel.“Buck lived in Mr. Miller's big house in the sunny Santa Clara valley. There were large gardens and fields of fruit trees around the house, and a river nearby. In a big place like this, of course, there were many dogs. Buck was chief dog; he was born here and this was his place. He went swimming with Mr. Miller's sons, and walking with his daughters. He carried the grandchildren on his back, and he set at Mr. Miller’s feet in front of the fire in winter.”(London, 1994: 6)It seems clear that Buck used to be a pet living in a civilized society originally which was eleg ant, rich and full of order. Mr. Miller’s home in th e sunny Santa Clara Valley was a portrayal of such a civilized society. In this world, Buck is just a pet, rather than a beast. He had no need to work for his master, Mr. Miller; he does not have to protect home or nurse the master. He is only a playmate or a partner of the host. Living in such a civilized environment, Buck had no need to worry about food and had no struggle and no burden, not to speak of danger. The only things he had were the sun, the garden, the river and the fruit fields. He lived a carefree, laid-back rural life. However, Buck's rich life did not last long. In 1897 when someone in Krona Dyke in Canada found a gold mine, a large number of people rushed to this area to look for gold. And they needed a lot of strong dogs to pull sleds which led Buck’s comfortable and easy life to an end, and brought a calamitous life to him. From then on, Buck was suddenly pulled out of the center of civilization, and was throwed into the center of the primitive.The center of the primitive was not easy to handle.“One day was very like another, but Buck noticed that the weather was getting colder. One morning, the ship's engines stopped, and there was a feeling of excitement in the ship. Francis leashed the dogs and took them outside. At the firststep Buck's feet went into something soft and white. He jumped back in surprise. The soft, white thing was also falling through the air, and it fell onto him. He tried to smell it, and then caught some on his tongue. It bit like fire, and then disappeared.”(London, 1994: 6)This is the description of Buck’s first contact with snow and ice, which shows that Buck came from the sunny, warm South to the ice and snow, cold and desolate north. In other words, it can be said that he came from the civilized world and entered the primitive one. During the days of pulling sledges, Buck’s li ving environment became worse and worse. He and the other dogs of the team kept pulling sledge day after day. They started working when it was dawn and came to a halt till the setting sun. Everyday he ate only a little fish, then drilled down to the snow cave to sleep. He was always hungry, and later he filled his stomach by fast eating and stealing the host’s meat. He could only rel y on his feet to get the water by breaking the ice to quench his thirst. Sometimes, the dogs fell into great dangers, nearly drowned or froze to death. In addition, he not only had to beware of Spitz’s attack, which was the leader of the dog team, but also protected the owner’s goods from the wild dogs all the time.In the harsh environment, Buck was exchanged several times. Even though, he met a good host John Thornton, under whose careful nursing of Thornton Buck recovered very quickly, this happy living with Thornton did not last long. Thornton, as a human being, had to face the cruelty of the environment as the dogs did. He did not succeed. As a result, he was killed by local Indians in the process of the Gold Rush Driven. With the extreme anger, Buck killed some of the Indians. Backed into a corner, Buck joined the wolves and by virtue of his strength, he conquered the wolves, became a leader of wolves. With the grand development of story plot, Buck got away further from the civilized world. If he wed to be a loving partner to human being, at the end of the story, he became a beast that completely obeyed the rules of nature. This results from the sharp change of his living environment.Buck had suffered a lot. He got out of the comfortable living environment, into the cruel harsh environment, and eventually returned to the primitive forest. In thisprocess, Buck had to change his previous way of living to adapt to the poor living environment and to increase his living skills to survive. At the same time, he must change his thoughts in order to adapt to the vagaries of living environment. Only in this way could he survive in the cruel world.2.4 Changes of Buck’s thoughts2.4.1 The law of club“The law of club” is one of the rules that must be obeyed in the primitive world. It reveals that cruel is the essence of the primitive world and obeying the power is a must between animals and men in the wild world. Buck living in Mr. Miller’s home in the Santa Clara Valley, had no need to work for Mr. Miller. The only mission he had was to play with his hosts. Buck who lived in such a civilized environment had no worry about food, with no struggle, no burden, not to mention dangers. In the world of his life, he believed in human beings, because of which led him directly to be sold to the dog trader without any precautions by Manuel El, the gardener of Mr. Miller’s. When Buck had the idea he had been sold to a stranger, it was too late and he felt so humiliated. He made up his mind to revenge the men who tortured him. He cried, tussled, waited for the opportunity coming, so that he could show his power to the dog traders. Finally, the moment came, so that he rushed out of the cage, looking forward to venting out these days’ anger at one time.“Buck was truly a red-eyed devil, as he drew himself together for the spring, hair bristling, mouth foaming, a mad glitter in his blood-shot eyes. Straight at the man he launched his one hundred and forty pounds of fury, surcharged with the pent passion of two days and nights.”(London, 1994: 10)However, Buck was knocked to the ground every time, which he could neverhave in mind when he jumped on the man in red. Eventually, after he had been shot down for numerous times, Buck could not get up again.“After a parti cularly fierce blow, he crawled to his feet, too dazed to rush.” “Buck's senses came back to him, but not his strength. He lay where he had fallen, and from there he watched the man in the red sweater.” “He saw, once for all, that he stood no chance against a man with a club. He had learned the lesson, and in all his later life he never forgot it. That club was a revelation. It was his introduction to the reign of primitive law, and he met the introduction halfway”(London, 1994:11-12)After beat by the man in red, he realized that he would never confront to a man with club. The only thing he could do was to obey the law of club.This is the first lesson Buck had got in the primitive world, and the first time he had realized the cruelty of life. He knew he failed, but he was not down, because he understood “the law of the club”.2.4.2 The law of the toothIn recognition of the “the law of club”, Buck was sold to the mailman Perot, embarked on his trip to the icy north. At the same time, Buck had the second lesson of life –“the law of the tooth”.“The law of the tooth”is another rule that must be obeyed in the primitive world. It reveals that cruelty and power between dogs and men is also exist between dogs and dogs. One who owns the power become the leader, while one who was weak would be dead in the wild. Curly’s suffering revealed a truth to Buck that in the barren north, even among the dogs, friendship and coexistence were substituted by cruelty and violence. Animals that were incapable of self-defense would be brutally murdered. The principle of fairness just fit in the civil world. In the wilderness, the only principle was “the law of the tooth”. Rules of human society had no place to stand. “In this dangerous environment of the north, animals that follow theso-called civilization and morality are fool and will be killed quickly. And then the cruelty of life made him realize that the world was not fair. Who lost the battle, who lost his life. He learned the skills of various evil quickly by which he could achieve his aims by any means” (Lai, 2005:110). He began to steal food, which also marked the degradation and disintegration of his moral nature. His character corrupted more and more, and he could do any thing in order to gain his ends. He completely turned into a brutal, savage beast.“Living in the dog team, Buck did not want to be patient for a long time under another man’s domination. When he was beat by the man in red, he already realized the importance of power. Since then, he never forgot the desire to win the leadership of Spitz. After full deliberation and preparation, he killed Spitz in the battle, and finally captured the leader position” (Chen, 2009:71)2.4.3 The call of the wild“The law of club” and “the law of tooth” were the most important rules Buck had learned in the primitive world. He realized that only one who was strong enough to fit the cruel environment can survive and power must be obeyed in the primitive world. After Buck was sold to three entirely lay people on driving sled, he was almost killed when he met his benefactor, Thornton. Under the meticulous care of Thornton, Buck quickly refreshed himself, and established a solid friendship with Thornton. Meanwhile, Buck came to understand love for the first time. The time Buck spent with Thornton was so fabulous in his mind that Buck felt he had someone to rely on, and they both loved each other. However, after Thornton was killed by the local Indians in the process of gold rush, for which Buck killed several Indians to avenge. Buck was on his own once again. But he did not give up his life. In the call of the wild, he joined the company of wolves, and later became the leader of the wolves.In the process of getting out of the comfort of Mr. Millers’ home and returning to the barbaric primitive forest, Buck experiences the changes from enjoying thecomfortable life in the beginning to entering the harsh realities in which he understands “the law of the club and tooth”, and realizes the t ruth of “survival of the fittest”. Facing the harsh reality, he has to give up the idea of civil society, and takes all means to survive. After his benefactor’s death, he is being further separated from the civilized society and finally responds to the call of the wild, returning to the group of wolfs. To live in nature means living like a beast. In this process, Buck adapts himself to the changing environment and thinking for the sake of survival by accepting the thoughts of survival of the fittest. These changes in thinking exactly reflected the survival of the fittest ideology.As the environment changed, Buck, compared to the previous Judge Millers’ family dog, enhanced a lot in thoughts and abilities. He tried his best to live, and was gradually adapted to the cruel primitive world. His efforts during the process of adapting to the environment fully reflect the survival of the fittest ideas.Chapter Three ConclusionAmerican literature in the twentieth-century was explosive and complex. Jack London is one of the representatives in that period. He had brought a fresh wild blood to the American literature in the twentieth century. London was born in the bottom of the society, so he had experienced poverty from childhood and relied entirely on his own to become a famous writer. Therefore, he could realize the views of survival of the fittest in his deep heart which he expresses in his works.“His writing style was crazy and energetic, strong and crude. His works were mostly ‘the stor ies of the North’ in which he advocated the social principle of “the law of the jungle” and “survival of the fittest”." (Zhao, Cheng: 74-75)The first time Jack London had contacted with the thought of survival of the fittest was after he had finished Charles Darwi n’s Origin of Species. However, Jack London affected by the Darwin’s thoughts was largely implemented through Spencer's work. In the study, Darwin found that the process of evolution is a series of adaptation while Spencer applied the theory to society.“He said ‘For the natural selection or the result of the struggle, to survive is to keep a good race, which Mr. Darwin had said, I inclined to use a mechanical terminology to express what is ‘survival of the fittest’’.” (Li, 2004: 90-92)The Call of the Wild is the best work of Jack London to reflect the survival of the fittest idea. In the aspect of thoughts, the hero Buck had learned his first lesson in the primitive—“the law of the club” after the red man hit him with a club. The main feature of this principle is that the power is the truth by which the force is definitely natural. Only force could overcome the incompetence and brutality. The man in red with a club held the relationship of brutality between the men and the dogs, but Buckrealized that this kind of cruel rule also existed among dogs after he experienced the suffering of Curly. Brutality and violence had replaced amicable friendship and peaceful coexistence, in which animals that were incapable of self-defense would brutally murdered. The principle of fairness and justice only suit the civil society, while in the wilderness, the only principle is the “law of club and tooth”. There is no place for human civilization to live in such a brutal wild. In the aspect of abilities, he learned to steal food to fill his belly, to cut the ice by his feet to quench his thirst and learned how to fight like a wolf, how to sled, how to dig holes to sleep in the snow. In order to adapt to the environment changing, his visual, olfactory and auditory sense had extremely developed. The growth of his abilities provides a protection for him to adapt to the cruel environment better.However, in the deep heart, London makes a reflection of the real human life through Buck's life. He treats animals like human beings and human beings are just like animals, recognizing no essential difference between man and animal. London used “he” to refer to Buck, because of which the characters should not be perceived only as dogs but as emblems of human characters. In the human’s world, there are powerful people like Buck who master the world with both the qualities of constant hardworking and endless progressing; and some other good-natured, weak people like the Curly whose weakness would eventually lead them to a tragic end; and dedicated people like David and Sol-leks who never cared about things that have nothing to do with them; and also people like Billy and Joe who have totally opposite characters whether sophisticated as smooth or stubborn till the end, and the way they deal with things will be completely different. From these different features we can see, London did not reflected the realities by mechanical representation or imagining out of thin air, but had depicted these life-like dogs by highly summarizing and deep extracting following the objective law of life. And the characteristic and fate of the characters in his works are the true reflections of various people in real life.Therefore, the “survival of the fittest” ideology reflected in the Call of the Wild is also a reflection of the living rules in which people had to adapt the cruel environment to survive, or died because of inadaptation in the reality of 1890s’。

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有关野性的呼唤的英语作文The call of the wild is something that stirs deepwithin our souls, awakening a primal instinct that has long been buried under the trappings of civilization. It's a raw, untamed force that beckons us to leave behind the comfortsof modern life and embrace the rugged, unforgiving beautyof the natural world.There's a wildness in the air, a sense of freedom and possibility that can't be found within the confines of four walls and a roof. It's the call of the open road, the rushof wind in your hair, and the thrill of not knowing whatlies around the next bend. It's a reminder that we are not meant to be caged, but to roam and explore, to feel theearth beneath our feet and the sun on our skin.The call of the wild is a siren song that lures us away from the mundane and into the unknown. It's the whisper of adventure, the promise of discovery, and the invitation to step off the beaten path and forge our own way through theuntamed wilderness. It's a reminder that there is more to life than the daily grind, and that true freedom can only be found in the wild places of the world.In the wild, there are no rules, no boundaries, and no limits to what we can achieve. It's a place where we can test our limits, push our boundaries, and discover what we are truly capable of. It's a call to embrace our wild nature, to unleash our inner strength, and to live with the fierce, untamed spirit of a creature unbound by convention or constraint.The call of the wild is a reminder that we are part of something greater than ourselves, a vast and untamed world that is waiting to be explored. It's a beckoning to leave behind the trappings of modern life and immerse ourselves in the raw, unbridled beauty of nature. It's a call to reconnect with our primal instincts, to rediscover our place in the natural order, and to embrace the wildnessthat lies within us all.。

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推荐野性的呼唤英文作文80词

推荐野性的呼唤英文作文80词英文回答:The Call of the Wild is a story of a domesticated dog named Buck who is stolen from his home in California and sold to gold seekers in the Yukon. Buck is forced to adapt to the harsh conditions of the Klondike and learns to survive in the wild. He becomes a leader of a team of sled dogs and experiences both the beauty and the brutality of nature. In the end, Buck decides to remain in the wild, answering the call of his true nature.Jack London's The Call of the Wild is a classic adventure story that has been enjoyed by readers of all ages for over a century. The story is full of vivid descriptions of the Yukon wilderness and the challenges that Buck faces. London also explores the themes of nature versus civilization and the power of the wild.中文回答:《野性的呼唤》讲述了一只名叫巴克的家养狗的故事,巴克被从加州的家园偷走,并被卖给了育空地区的淘金者。

野性的呼唤英文作文

野性的呼唤英文作文

野性的呼唤英文作文The call of the wild is something that stirs deepwithin our souls, a primal instinct that connects us to the untamed forces of nature.There's a raw, untamed energy in the wild that can't be found anywhere else. It's a feeling of freedom and exhilaration that can't be replicated in the confines of civilization.The wild calls to us in the howl of the wind, the roar of the ocean, and the rustle of leaves in the forest. It's a symphony of sounds that speaks to something ancient and wild within us.In the wild, there are no boundaries, no limits, no rules. It's a place where we can shed the constraints of society and embrace our true, unbridled selves.The call of the wild is a reminder that we are part ofsomething greater than ourselves, a vast and untamed world that existed long before we did and will continue to exist long after we're gone.In the wild, we can find solitude and solace, a placeto escape the noise and distractions of modern life and reconnect with our primal instincts.The call of the wild is a beckoning to explore, to discover, to seek out new adventures and experiences that can't be found within the confines of our comfort zones.In the wild, we can find a sense of awe and wonder that is often lost in the hustle and bustle of everyday life.It's a place where we can be humbled by the vastness and beauty of the natural world.The call of the wild is a reminder that we are part ofa delicate and interconnected ecosystem, and that ouractions have a profound impact on the world around us.In the wild, we can find a sense of purpose and meaning,a place where we can truly feel alive and in tune with the rhythms of nature.The call of the wild is a primal, instinctual urge that draws us back to our roots, reminding us of our place in the natural world and the importance of preserving it for future generations.。

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But this was 1897, and Buck did not know that men and dogs were hurrying to north-west Canada to look for gold.And he did not know that Manuel, one of Mr Miller's garden-ers, needed money for his large family. One day,when Mr Miller was out, Manuel and Buck left the garden together.It was just an evening walk, Buck thought.No one saw them go, and only one man saw them arrive at the railway station.This man talked to Manuel, and gave him some money .Then he tied a piece of rope around Buck's neck.
1 To the north
Buck did not read the newspapers. He did not know that trouble was coming for every big dog in California. Men had found gold in the Yukon, and these men wanted big, strong dogs to work in the cold and snow of the north.
They took off Buck's rope and pushed him into a wooden box. He spent the night in the box in the back room of the bar. His neck still ached with pain from the rope, and he could not understand what it all meant . What did they want with him, these strange men? And where was Mr Miller?

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推荐野性的呼唤英语作文The Call of the WildIn a world consumed by the relentless march of progress and the trappings of modern civilization, there is a longing deep within the human spirit for something more primal, more authentic. It is a yearning to reconnect with the wild, to heed the call of the untamed and to embrace the raw, unbridled essence of our ancestral roots. The story of the call of the wild is one that resonates across cultures and generations, a testament to the enduring power of our innate connection to the natural world.At the heart of this call lies a fundamental truth – that we, as human beings, are inextricably linked to the rhythms and cycles of the natural world. We are not mere spectators, but rather integral participants in the grand tapestry of life that unfolds around us. The wilderness, with its untamed beauty and unforgiving landscapes, beckons us to shed the shackles of our constructed realities and to rediscover the essence of our own being.In the wild, we are confronted with the stark realities of survival, the primal instincts that have been honed over millennia. We arereminded of the fragility of our existence, the delicate balance that sustains all life on this planet. It is in these moments that we are forced to confront our own mortality, to acknowledge our place within the greater scheme of things, and to embrace the humbling realization that we are but a small part of a vast, interconnected ecosystem.Yet, it is precisely this confrontation with the raw power of nature that offers us the opportunity to rediscover our true selves. In the wilderness, we are stripped of the distractions and conveniences that have become the hallmarks of modern life. We are forced to rely on our own wit, our own physical and mental resilience, to navigate the challenges that arise. This process of self-discovery, of reconnecting with our primal instincts, can be both exhilarating and transformative.The call of the wild is not merely a physical journey, but a spiritual one as well. It is a call to shed the layers of societal conditioning, to embrace the inherent wildness that lies within each of us. In doing so, we can unlock a deeper understanding of our place in the world, a renewed appreciation for the delicate balance of nature, and a profound sense of belonging that transcends the boundaries of our constructed realities.For those who heed the call, the rewards are immense. They may find themselves reconnecting with a sense of wonder and awe, marvelingat the beauty and complexity of the natural world. They may discover a newfound resilience, a capacity to adapt and thrive in the face of adversity. And, perhaps most importantly, they may uncover a deep well of inner strength, a wellspring of courage and determination that can be drawn upon in all aspects of their lives.The call of the wild is not a siren song that lures us to our doom, but rather a clarion call to embrace our true nature, to reclaim our rightful place within the grand tapestry of life. It is a summons to step beyond the confines of our comfort zones, to venture into the unknown, and to rediscover the raw, unfiltered essence of our being. In doing so, we may just find the key to unlocking a deeper, more fulfilling connection with the world around us, and with the very core of our own humanity.。

野性的呼唤论文

野性的呼唤论文

An Analysis of Buck in The Call of the Wild Abstract:J ack London, , who is best known for his stories of adventure set in the Yukon, was the most successful American writer in America in the early 20th Century. The Call of the Wild, is one of Jack London’s most popular novels. Through the themes, plots and multitudinous characters of the novel, it vividly depicts the life in the primitive North where people rushed for gold and fortune.This thesis includes three parts to show an analysis of the major hero Buck’s character which shows that he is indomitable, indestructible and wise at his life.Key Words:character indomitable indestructible wiseIntroductionThe Call of the Wild is one of the masterpieces of the great American writer Jack London. It apparently is a dog’s story.In the deep part,London makes the flection of the real human life through Buck’s life. So The Call of the Wild attracts much more attention than his other novels and many researchers have analyzed this novel from different views.The 1980’s witnesses the publication of a series important comparative studies of The Call of the Wild.David M. Hamilton’s The Tools of My Trade: The annotated Books in Jack London’s Library correlates the reading of certain texts by London with the writing of The Call of the Wild. These studies are accompanied by renewed biographical interest in London’s life and family. Clarice Stasz’s American Dreamers:Charmian and Jack London provides biographical information on the connection between the “initiation experiences of London’sown life” and The Call of the Wild. These critical and biographical works add important methods to the field of London studies and the interpretations of The Call of the Wild that continue to the present.In the recent years, the book has been explored with the method of Eco-criticism.Tan Jianxiang’s paper “The Revolting Creature under the Shackles—A New Interpretation of The Call of the Wild by Jack London from the Perspective of Eco-criticism” explores, from the perspective of ecology, the deep-rooted reason why Buck changes from a pet of civilization into a wolf dog which slays at will, breaks loose the shackles of humankind, answers the call of the wild and eventually goes back to nature.To sum up, different researchers have different opinions and they analyze the novel from their own perspectives. However, few people have made a thorough study of the character picture in the novel, sothis thesis aims to give a relatively comprehensive analysis of the protagonist Buck’s character in o rder to help others make a better understanding about the novel.1.IndomitableThe first character of superman is his firm and indomitable strength to survive. In the wildness, the firm and indomitable ability was the basic condition to survive in such a cruel environment.“Buck both has minds of Scotch shepherd dog and physiques of St. Bernard, but he still has his limitations: can’t live in the northern land; can’t step on ice; can’t draw sled and can’t be the head of dogs, etc. However, Buck possesses str ong will and blooming vitality……”(Jack London 1903: 48). If Buck is a weaker, he can not fit the bitter environment. At the end he may like the most other Southland dogs, died when he faced the toil, frost and starvation, or he could overcome these natural hardships, and he could not dodge dangers from his teammates and other savage husky dogs. Buck was not so large as his father, he only weighted one hundred and forty pounds, but this also gave him dignity. “Compared to other dogs, he had absolute advantag es in stamina, and learned the law of club and tooth with the speed of superman”(Jack London 1903: 69). He is a dog with strong muscles and warm long hair. These a re only Buck’s natural features to help him survive in the Northland. When Buck adapt s in the environment, he improves quickly. His muscles become hard as iron, and he grows callous to all ordinary pain. He achieves an internal as well as external economy, and all these are his physical strength to survive. In fact, he has not only physical strength, but strength to fight. When he plunges into the besiegement, his head and shoulders are split. However, he does n’t give up his hope for surviving. His firm and indomitable strength helps him. He is so powerful that he cuts a husky dog’s throat, his sh arp teeth cutting the rival’s blood vessel. Through these detailed descriptions by Jack London, readers even can image that what a powerful dog he is, who has firm and indomitable ability. This is the advantage of Buck, which helps him become the leader of the dog team then, and also the leader of the wolf pack at last.2.IndestructibleIf Buck only has firm and indomitable ability to survive, he might live a period of time, but he could not live long. He needs indestructible will to survive, which is his second character of superman.As we know, Buck i s a dog lived in Mr. Miller’s big house in the sunny Santa Clara Valley in the Southland which the weather is warm, soft, and sun-kissed and his life is comfortable and safe. Unfortunately, he is stolen and sold by a guardian of Mr. Miller to the Northland—Seattle, which isopposite to the Southland. It is too cold and frigid to live for a Southland dog in that place. Although Many of these dogs are so soft that they die under the toil, frost and starvation in this hard environment, Buck i s an exception. “It was only Buck—a dog had never seen snow, adapted himself to the weather in the North, with will to survive, and draw the heavy sled toughly on snow day after day.”(Jack London 1903: 75) The reason why he could live so well is he has the indestructible will to survive. When he first rushes out from the chest after his long train, he is like a red-eyed devil. He struggles to the man in the red sweater with a club. Though he is beaten and bled, he continues to attack. All these actions are just because of his will to survive, although he is beaten down again and again, he does not give up. Survival is the most important thing in these hard surroundings, and living i s everything. Buck’s will to survive asks him to rebel, not to obey the order, and finally he makes it. From this, readers can feel his indestructible will to survive and know it is so significant for him to succeed.3.WiseBesides indestructible will to survive and indomitable strength to survive, Buck has the third character--resourceful wisdom to survive.Buck is so clever that he can fully use his wisdom to overcome the risky and danger. He gets his lesson written in his own blood.Though he is beaten, he is not broken. It arises his latent cunning nature. Cur ly’s death teaches him another cruel lesson—in the Northland, under the law of club and fang, life is killing or being killed. There is no third one. He has to see to it and never let himself go down. In his later life, his learning ability helped him quickly fit the changing conditions. His learning ability helps him and makes him reach great progress.His outstanding learning ability and wisdom to survive makes him learn how to bite the ice out when it still collects between his toes. He even has an excellent ability that he could scent the wind and could forecast in advance, so every night he could sleep sweeter and comfortable than other dogs. In the hard environment, survival was much superior to other private desires. In the story, Buck’s wisdom can be described with another word—cunning, and the scene that can reflect this point fully is the process that Buck takes the position of Spitz, the former leader of dog team. He wants to be the lead-dog. But his wisdom tells him it is foolish if he conflicts with Spitz face to face, because Spitz is full of fighting experience. His wisdom not only helps him fit to the bitter environment but also helps him develop for survival.ConclusionIn conclusion, through analysis of Buck’s character,readers can have a clear and deep understanding that Buck has the firm and indomitable strength, the indestructible will and the resourceful wisdom. By creating such a character, Jack London tells readers that one needs firm strength to fight against the difficulties. The comprehensive depiction of Buck shows wolflike nature and human nature.BibliographyHamilton, David M, ed, The Tools of My Trade: The Annotated Books in Jack London’s Library[C].Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1987.Jack London. The Call of the Wild. [M].New York: Cambridge University Press,1995, 16.Jerome H. Stern, Jack London, The Encyclopedia Americana[M]. 1980 (17), 700-701.买春艳,对《野性的呼唤》中巴克形象的再解读[J]. 盐城师范学院学报:人文社会科学版2005(3),95—97.谭建香. 枷锁下反叛的精灵--《野性的呼唤》之生态批评的解读[J]. 南京理工大学学报(社会科学版), 2009(5)。

【作文】The Call of the Wild

【作文】The Call of the Wild
The Call of the Wild
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1、The Call of the Wild_野性的呼唤英语读后感450字 The author of this book is the Jack of London, he is the Gou realism experts, known as the "father of the proletariat literature of america". Jack London often puts characters in extreme cruelty, life and death environment, in order to expose the most profound and truest character in human nature. The cruel truth in his works often shocked the readers mind. The call of the wild is Jack London, the author of the United states. It is the story of Saint Bernard dogs and Scotland shepherd offspring, his name is buck, originally lived a life in the light of heart from care judge Miller manor, his simple, lively, accustomed to a comfortable life, but human greed and corruption that he embarked on a road of no return. He is turning several times, sent a messenger to life, he suffered a whip to beat, the law of the jungle, cannibalism and survival difficult, but he knew from friendship, sympathy and emotions of pride. His love and hate, smart and brave, loyal duty, good master, but the wild wolves howling aroused his memories. Since his beloved master died, avenged the master, then the human ties, decided to return to the wilderness, and wolves as partners, enjoying the joy of animal slaughter. It is a body to feel its strength and wild things in this world, the law of the jungle buck in a slow recovery, by sympathy and charity is not live, want to give their living space, make sure you keep yourself strong, superbaby. From the initial gentle into the final savage, if sustained buck early obedience, perhaps as early as Buck died in the dog who stick, I deeply shocked nature in its surface under the constant gentle awakening. After reading this book, I can not help but Yanjuan thought, feeling very much. First of all, the strong viability of Booker, many of his companions, after experiencing difficulties and dangers again and again, only Booker survived. I think society is like a big battlefield. Once you fall down, or you stand up quickly, youre done. Sorrow will crush you and eat your soul. Only standing and standing can survive. Standing people should make themselves stand higher, can continue to progress, and continue to seek a higher foothold. 版权作品,未经《碧意之时》书面授权,严禁转载,违者将被追究法律责任

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An Analysis of the Nature of Buck in The Call of WildAbstractThe Call of the Wild is the most famous novel of Jack London. The novel, revolving around the “gold rush” prevailing in the society at that time, performs the world of a dog which struggles in the special environment incisively and vividly. This paper tries to study the nature of Buck in The Call of the Wild from the perspective of the nature of the character. The paper firstly introduces Jack London and The Call of the Wild, and leads out a literature review to establish the theoretical foundation. On this basis, several main characters in the nature of Buck are analyzed with texts, including fighting spirit, the willingness of adjusting to new environment, love and loyalty, and the eagerness of conquering. Then the mixture of dog and human nature in Buck is explored, from the perspectives of reflections of human nature as well as the society. Through all the analysis, this study purposes to contribute a little to the further study of Jack London and The Call of the Wild.Keywords: characters, Buck, The Call of the Wild, human nature摘要《野性的呼唤》是杰克·伦敦最为著名的小说。

野性的呼唤(英文版)

野性的呼唤(英文版)
Presenter: 黄裕鑫 25号
Spitz
Buck A "Scottish half-breed" man
John Thornton
Character Analysis
Presenter: 潘影红 27号
Spitz: the leader of the dogs, an experienced
The indigenous people of Alaska and Canada began using sled dogs more than 1,000 years ago.
They depended on these dogs for
• protection • transportation • hunting • companionship
• The vicious and cunning rulers
He was preeminently cunning, and could bide his time with a patience that nothing less than primitive.
Background
Presenter: 彭雪宁 8号
The Call of the Wild: Background
Background knowledge
A gold rush is a period of feverish migration of workers into the area of a dramatic discovery of commercial quantities of gold. the 19th century Australia、 Brazil 、Canada 、South AfricKalo、ndike

野性的呼唤缩写英语作文

野性的呼唤缩写英语作文

野性的呼唤缩写英语作文1. I was lost in the wilderness, surrounded by towering trees and deafening silence. The only sound was therustling of leaves in the wind, a reminder of how small and insignificant I was in this vast, untamed world.2. As night fell, the darkness closed in around me, enveloping me in its suffocating embrace. I could hear the distant howl of a wolf, a chilling reminder of the dangers that lurked in the shadows.3. With each step I took, the ground beneath my feet grew more treacherous, threatening to swallow me whole. I stumbled and fell, my heart pounding in my chest as I struggled to regain my footing.4. The air was thick with the scent of earth and decay,a reminder of the cycle of life and death that governedthis wild place. I felt a primal fear stirring within me, a reminder of my own mortality in the face of nature'sunforgiving power.5. And yet, despite the dangers and uncertainties that surrounded me, I felt a strange sense of liberation. In the wilderness, I was stripped of all pretense and artifice, forced to confront my true self in all its raw, unfiltered glory.6. As the first light of dawn broke over the horizon, I felt a sense of awe and wonder wash over me. In the wilderness, I had found a connection to something greater than myself, a reminder of the beauty and majesty of the natural world.7. And so, as I emerged from the wilderness, battered and bruised but alive, I carried with me a newfound respect for the untamed power of nature. The call of the wild still echoed in my ears, a reminder of the primal forces that lie dormant within us all.。

野性的呼唤论文

野性的呼唤论文

A Study of the Nature of Buck in The Call ofthe WildAbstractThe Call of the Wild is the masterpiece of Jack London who is one of the most renowned American writers. It was published in 1903. The complex character of the protagonist dog Buck is the main factor to cause the novel perpetual. The arduous paths Buck went through were a reflection of American social reality in the 20th century, and it reproduced the Klondike Gold Rush Age in American history. It’s a key point to study the writer’s viewpoints and the social background by a nalyzing Buck’s character. At the beginning this thesis introduces Darwin’s Law of Nature—survival of the fittest. Then it describes Buck’s aspiration for new life. Gentle dog Buck went to the wasteland which was far away from human civilization but he adapted to the challenging environment very soon. It unfolded before our eyes the brightness of individual and spectacular of life vividly and incisively. In response to the call of the wild, Buck got back to the forest full of mystery and venture without the slightest hesitation after Tom Thornton’s death. The third chapter expounds that Buck bears the nature of ferociousness and at the same time has a passion for sacrifice. We are convinced that it is incumbent upon the Fiend Buck to show responsibility, love and loyalty after obtaining human beings equal respect. This gives expression to Mencius ethical view that humans are born good.Key Words: Wildness; call; freedom; survival of the fittest中文摘要《荒野的呼唤》是美国著名作家杰克〃伦敦于1903年发表的成名作。

野性的呼唤缩写作文英文

野性的呼唤缩写作文英文

野性的呼唤缩写作文英文1. OMG, have you ever felt the call of the wild? It's like this irresistible force pulling you away from the mundane and into the untamed. It's like a primal urge, deep within your soul, urging you to break free from the constraints of civilization and embrace the raw beauty of nature.2. Picture this: you're standing on the edge of a cliff, the wind whipping through your hair, and the vast expanseof the wilderness stretching out before you. It's exhilarating, isn't it? The adrenaline coursing throughyour veins, the feeling of being alive and connected to something greater than yourself. It's like a wild dancewith nature, a symphony of freedom and adventure.3. And let's not forget about the creatures thatinhabit these untamed lands. The majestic lions, thegraceful cheetahs, the mighty elephants they're the epitome of wildness. They move with a grace and power that is awe-inspiring. They remind us of our own primal instincts, our own connection to the animal kingdom.4. But it's not just about the big and powerful. It's also about the small and delicate. The colorful butterflies fluttering through the air, the tiny hummingbirds sipping nectar from flowers they too have a place in this wild symphony. They remind us of the delicate balance of nature, the intricate web of life that we are all a part of.5. The call of the wild is not just about experiencing nature, it's about reconnecting with our own wild side.It's about embracing our own instincts and desires, and finding our place in this vast and unpredictable world.It's about letting go of our inhibitions and embracing the unknown, because that's where the magic happens.6. So, next time you hear the call of the wild, don't ignore it. Embrace it. Let it guide you to new adventures, new experiences, and a deeper understanding of yourself and the world around you. Let it remind you that we are all part of something greater, something wild and beautiful.Let it set your soul on fire and ignite a passion for life that can never be extinguished.。

野性的呼唤题目主标题作文

野性的呼唤题目主标题作文

野性的呼唤题目主标题作文英文回答:The Call of the Wild is a novel written by Jack London that explores the theme of the primal instincts and the desire for freedom. The story follows Buck, a domesticated dog who is stolen from his comfortable life and sold as a sled dog in the harsh Yukon territory during the Klondike Gold Rush.Throughout the novel, Buck undergoes a transformationas he taps into his wild instincts and adapts to the harsh conditions of the wilderness. He learns to fend for himself, hunt for food, and survive in the brutal cold. This transformation represents the call of the wild, the instinctual desire to be free and live according to one's natural instincts.In the wild, Buck encounters other wild animals such as wolves and bears. He learns to communicate with them andbecomes a part of their pack. This sense of belonging and connection with nature is something that Buck never experienced in his domesticated life. It is through this connection that he finds true fulfillment and happiness.The novel also explores the theme of the survival of the fittest. Buck faces numerous challenges and dangers in the wild, but he is able to overcome them through his strength, intelligence, and adaptability. This theme reflects the harsh realities of life in the wilderness, where only the strongest and most adaptable survive.Overall, The Call of the Wild is a powerful exploration of the human desire for freedom and the primal instincts that lie within us all. It reminds us of our connection to nature and the importance of embracing our wild side.中文回答:《野性的呼唤》是杰克·伦敦所著的一部小说,探索了原始本能和对自由的渴望这一主题。

野性的呼唤 英文

野性的呼唤 英文

1To the northBuck did not read the newspapers.He did not know that trouble was coming for every big dog in California.Men had found gold in the Yukon,and these men wanted big,strong dogs to work in the cold and snow of the north.Buck lived in Mr Miller's big house in the sunny Santa Clara valley There were large gardens and fields of fruit trees around the house,and a river nearby.In a big place like this,of course,there were many dogs There were house dogs and farm dogs,but they were not important.Buck was chief dog;he was born here,and this was his place.He was four years old and weighed sixty kilos.He went swimming with Mr Miller's sons,and walking with his daughters.He carried the grandchildren on his back,and he sat at Mr Miller's feet in front of the fire in winter.But this was1897,and Buck did not know that men and dogs were hurrying to north-west Canada to look for gold.And he did not know that Manuel,one of Mr Miller's garden-ers,needed money for his large family.One day,when Mr Miller was out,Manuel and Buck left the garden together.It was just an evening walk,Buck thought.No one saw them go,and only one man saw them arrive at the railway station.This man talked to Manuel,and gave him some money.Then he tied a piece of rope around Buck's neck.Buck growled,and was surprised when the rope was pulled hard around his neck.He jumped at the man.The man caught him and suddenly Buck was on his back with his tongue out of his mouth.For a few moments he was unable to move,and it was easy for the two men to put him into the train.When Buck woke up,the train was still moving.The man was sitting and watching him,but Buck was too quick for him and he bit the man's hand hard.Then the rope was pulled again and Buck had to let go.That evening,the man took Buck to the back room of a bar in San Francisco.The barman looked at the man's hand and trousers covered in blood.‘How much are they paying you for this?’he asked.‘I only get fifty dollars.’‘And the man who stole him—how much did he get?’asked the barman.‘A hundred.He wouldn't take less.’‘That makes a hundred and fifty.It's a good price for a dog like him.Here,help me to get him into this.’They took off Buck's rope and pushed him into a wooden box.He spent the night in the box in the back room of the bar.His neck still ached with pain from the rope,and he could not understand whatit all meant.What did they want with him,these strange men?And where was Mr Miller?The next day Buck was carried in the box to the railway station and put on a trainto the north.For two days and nights the train travelled north,and for two days and nights Buck neither ate nor drank.Men on the train laughed at him and pushed sticks at him through the holes in the box.For two days and nights Buck got angrier and hungrier and thirsti-er.His eyes grew red and he bit anything that moved.In Seattle four men took Buck to a small,high-walled back garden,where a fat man in an old red coat was waiting.Buck was now very angry indeed and hejumped and bit at the sides of his box.The fat man smiled and went to get an axe and a club.‘Are you going to take him out now?’asked one of the men.‘Of course,’answered the fat man,and he began to break the box with his axe.Immediately the four other men climbed up onto the wall to watch from a safe place.As the fat man hit the box with his axe,Buck jumped at the sides,growling and biting,pulling with his teeth at the pieces of broken wood.After a few minutes there was a hole big enough for Buck to get out.‘Now,come here,red eyes,’said the fat man,dropping his axe and taking the club in h is right hand.Buck jumped at the man,sixty kilos of anger,his mouth wide open ready to bite the man's neck.Just before his teeth touched the skin,the man hit him with the club.Buck fell to the ground.It was the first time anyone had hit him with a club and he did not understand.He stood up,and jumped again.Again the club hit him and he crashed to the ground.Ten times he jumped at the man,and ten times the club hit him.Slowly he got to his feet,now only just able to stand.There was blood on his nose and mouth and ears.Then the fat man walked up and hit him again,very hard,on the nose.The pain was terrible.Again,Buck jumped at the man and again he was hit to the ground.A last time he jumped,and this time,when the man knocked him down,Buck did not move.‘He knows how to teach a dog a lesson,’said one of the men on the wall.Then the four men jumped down and went back to the station.‘His name is Buck,’said the fat man to himself,reading the letter that had come with the box.‘Well,Buck,my by,’he said in a friendly voice,‘we've argued a little,and I think the best thing to do now is to stop.Be a good dog and we'll be friends.But if you're a bad dog,I'll have to use my club again.Understand?’As he spoke,he touched Buck’s head,and although Buck was angry inside,he did not move.When the man brought him water and meat,Buck drank and then ate the meat,piece by piece,from the man's hand.Buck was beaten(he knew that)but he was not broken.He had learnt that a man with a club was stronger than him.Every day he saw more dogs arrive,and each dog was beaten by the fatman.Buck understood that a man with a club must be obeyed,although he did not have to be a friend.Men came to see the fat man and to look at the dogs.Some-times they paid money and left with one or more of the dogs.One day a short,dark man came and looked at Buck.‘That's a good dog!’he cried.‘How much do you want for him?’‘Three hundred dollars.It's a good price,Perrault,’said the fat man.Perrault smiled and agreed that it was a good price.He knew dogs,and he knew that Buck was an excellent dog.‘One in ten thousand,’Perrault said to himself.Buck saw money put into the fat man’s hand,and he was not surprised when he and another dog called Curly were taken away by Perrault.He took them to a ship,and later that day Buck and Curly stood and watched the coast get further and further away.They had seen the warm south for the last time.Perrault took Buck and Curly down to the bottom of the ship.There they met another man,Francois.Perrault was a French-Canadian,but Francois was half-Indian,tall and dark.Buck learnt quickly that Perrault and Francois were fair men,calm and honest.And they knew everything about dogs.There were two other dogs on the ship.One was a big dog called Spitz,as white as snow.He was friendly to Buck at first,always smiling.He was smiling when he tried to steal Buck’s food at the first meal.Francois was quick and hit Spitz before Buck had time to move.Buck decided that this was fair,and began to like Francois a little.Dave,the other dog,was not friendly.He wanted to be alone all the time.He ate and slept and was interested in nothing.One day was very like another,but Buck noticed that the weather was getting colder.One morning,the ship's engines stopped,and there was a feeling of excitement in the ship.Francois leashed the dogs and took them outside.At the first step Buck's feet went into something soft and white.He jumped back in surprise.The soft,white thing was also falling through the air,and it fell onto him.He tried to smell it,and then caught some on his tongue.It bit like fire,and then dis appeared.He tried again and the same thing happened.People were watching him and laughing,and Buck felt ashamed,although he did not know why.It was his first snow.2The law of club and toothBuck's first day at Dyea Beach was terrible.Every hour there was some new,frightening surprise.There was no peace,no rest—only continual noise and movement.And every minute there was danger,because these dogs and men were not town dogs and men.They knew only the lawof club and tooth.Buck had never seen dogs fight like these dogs;they were like wolves.In a few minutes he learnt this from watching Curly.She tried to make friends with a dog,a big one,al-though not as big as she was.There was no warning.The dog jumped on Curly,his teeth closed together,then he jumped away,and Curly's face was torn open from eye to mouth.Wolves fight like this,biting and jumping away,but the fight did not finish then.Thirty or forty more dogs ran up and made a circle around the fight,watching silently.Curly tried to attack the dog who had bitten her;he bit her a second time,and jumped away.When she attacked him again,he knocked her backwards,and she fell on the ground.She never stood up again,because this was what the other dogs were waiting for.They moved in,and in a moment she was under a crowd of dogs.It was all very sudden.Buck saw Spitz run out from the crowd with his tongue out of his mouth,laughing.Then he saw Francois with an axe,and two or three other men with clubs jump in among the dogs.Two minutes later the last of the dogs was chased away.But Curly lay dead in the snow,her body torn almost to pieces.Curly's death often came backto Buck in his dreams.He understood that once a dog was down on the ground,he was dead He also remembered Spitz laughing,and from that moment he hated him.Then Buck had another surprise.Francois put a harness on him.Buck had seen harnesses on horses,and now he was made to work like a horse,pulling Francois on a sledge into the forest and returning with wood for the fire.Buck worked with Spitz and Dave.The two other dogs had worked in a har -ness before,and Buck learnt by watching them.He also learnt to stop and turn when Francois shouted.‘Those three are very good dogs,’Francois told Perrault.‘That Buck pulls very well,and he's learning quickly.’Perrault had important letters and official papers to take to Dawson City,so that afternoon he bought two more dogs,two brothers called Billee and Joe.Billee was very friendly,but Joe was the opposite.In the evening Perrault bought one more dog,an old dog with one eye.His name was Sol-leks,which means The Angry One.Like Dave,he made no friends;all he wanted was to be alone.That night Buck discovered another problem.Where was he going to sleep?Francois and Perrault were in their tent,but when he went in,they shouted angrily and threw things at him.Outside it was very cold and windy.He lay down in the snow,but he was too cold to sleep.He walked around the tents trying to find the other dogs.But,to his surprise,they had disappeared.He walked around Perrault's tent,very,very cold,wondering what to do.Sud-denly,the snow under his feet fell in,and he felt something move.He jumped back,waiting for the attack,but heard on-ly a friendly bark.There,in a warm hole under the snow,was Billee.So that was what you had to do.Buck chose a place,dug himself a hole and in a minute he was warm and asleep.He slept well,although his dreams were bad.When he woke up,at first he did not know where he was.It had snowed in the night and the snow now lay thick and heavy above him.Suddenly he was afraid—the fear of a wild animal when it is caught and cannot escape.Growling,he threw himself at the snow,and a moment later,he had jumped upwards into the daylight.He saw the tents and re-membered everything,from the time he had gone for a walk with Manuel to the moment he had dug the hole the night before.‘What did I say?’shouted Francois to Perrault,when he saw Buck come up out of the snow.‘That Buck learns quickly.’Perrault smiled slowly.He was carrying important papers,and he needed good dogs.He was very pleased to have Buck.They bought three more dogs that morning,and a quarter of an hour later all nine dogs were in harness and on their way up the Dyea Canyon.Buck was not sorry to be moving,and although it was hard work,he almost enjoyed it.He was also surprised to see that Dave and Sol-leks no longer looked bored and miserable.Pulling in a harness was their job,and they were happy to do it.Dave was sledge-dog,the dog nearest to the sledge.In front of him was Buck,then came Sol-leks.In front of them were the six other dogs,with Spitz as leader at the front.Francois had put Buck between Dave and Sol-leks because they could teach him the work.Buck learnt well,and they were good teachers.When Buck pulled the wrong way,Dave always bit his leg,but only lightly.Once,when they stopped,Buck got tied up in his harness,and it took ten minutes to get started again.Both Dave and Sol-leks gave him a good beating for that mistake.Buck understood,and was more careful after that.It was a hard day's journey,up the Dyea Canyon and into the mountains.They camped that night at Lake Bennett.Here there were thousands of gold miners.They were building boats to sail up the lake when the ice melted in the spring.Buck made his hole in the snow and slept well,but was woken up very early and harnessed to the sledge.The first day they had travelled on snow that had been hardened by many sledges and they covered sixty kilometres.But the next day,and for days afterwards,they were on new snow.The work was harder and they went slowly.Usually,Perrault went in front,on snowshoes,flattening the snow a little for the dogs.Francois stayed by the sledge.Sometimes the two men changed places,but there were many small lakes and rivers,and Perrault understood ice better.He always knew when the ice across a river was very thin.Day after day Buck pulled in his harness.They started in the morning before it was light,and they stopped in the evening after dark,ate a piece of fish,and went to sleep in their holes under the snow.Buck was always hungry.Francoisgave him750grams of dried fish a day,and it was never enough.The other dogs were given only500grams;they were smaller and could stay dive on less food.Buck learnt to eat quickly;if he was too slow,the other dogs stole his food.He saw Pike,one of the new dogs,steal some meat from the sledge when Perrault wasn't looking.The next day Buck stole some and got away unseen.Perrault was very angry,but he thought another dog,Dub,had taken it and so punished him instead of Buck.Buck was learning how to live in the north.In the south he had never stolen,but there he had never been so hungry.He stole cleverly and secretly,remembering the beatings from the man with the club.Buck was learning the law of club and tooth.He learnt to eat any food—anything that he could get his teeth into.He learnt to break the ice on water holes with his feet when he wanted to drink He was stronger,harder,and could see and smell better than ever before.In a way,he was remembering back to the days when wild dogs travelled in packs through the forest,killing for meat as they went.It was easy for him to learn to fight like a wolf,because it was in his blood.In the evenings,when he pointed his nose at the moon and howled long and loud,he was remembering the dogs and wolves that had come before him.3The wild animalThe wild animal was strong in Buck,and as he travelled across the snow,it grew stronger and stronger.And as Buck grew stronger,he hated Spitz more and more,although he was careful never to start a fight.But Spitz was always showing his teeth to Buck,trying to start a fight.And Buck knew that if he and Spitz fought,one of them would die.The fight almost happened one night when they stopped by Lake Laberge.There was heavy snow and it was very cold.The lake was frozen and Francois,Perrault,and the dogs had to spend the night on the ice,under a big rock.Buck had made a warm hole in the snow and was sorry to leave it to get his piece of fish.But when he had eaten.and returned to his hole,he found Spitz in it.Buck had tried not to fight Spitz be-fore,but this was too much.He attacked him angrily.Spitz was surprised.He knew Buck was big,but he didn’t know he was so wild.Francois was surprised too,and guessed why Buck was angry.‘Go on Buck!’he shouted.‘Fight him,the dirty thief!’Spitz was also ready to fight,and the two dogs circled one another,looking for the chance to jump in.But suddenly there was a shout from Perrault,and they saw eighty or a hundred dogs around the sledge.The dogs came from an Indian village,and they were searching for the food that they could smell on the sledge.Perrault and Francois tried to fight them off with their clubs,but the dogs,made crazy by the smell of the food,showed their teeth and fought back.Buck had never seed dogs like these.They were all skin and bone,but hunger made them fight like wild things.Three of them attacked Buck and in seconds his head and legs were bad-ly bitten.Dave and Sol-leks stood side by side,covered in blood,fighting bravely.Joe and Pike jumped on one dog,and Pike broke its neck with one bite.Buck caught another dog by the neck and tasted blood.He threw himself on the next one,and then felt teeth in his own neck.It was Spitz,attacking him from the side.Perrault and Francois came to help with clubs,but then they had to run back to save the food.It was safer for the nine sledge-dogs to run away across the lake.Several of them were badly hurt,and they spent an unhappy night hiding among the tress.At first light they returned to the sledge and found Perrault and Francois tired and angry.Half their food was gone.The Indian dogs had even eaten one of Perrault's shoes.Francois looked at his dogsunhappily.‘Ah,my friends,’he said softly,‘Perhaps those bites will make you ill.What do you think,Perrault?’Perrault said nothing.They still had six hundred kilometres to travel,and he hoped very much that his sledge-dogs had not caught rabies from the Indian dogs.The harness was torn and damaged and it was two hours be-fore they were moving,travelling slowly and painfully over the most difficult country that they had been in.The Thirty Mile River was not frozen.It ran too fast to freeze.They spent six days trying to find a place to cross,and every step was dangerous for dogs and men.Twelve times they found ice bridges across the river,and Perrault walked carefully onto them,holding a long piece of wood.And twelve times he fell through a bridge and was saved by the piece of wood,which caught on the sides of the hole.But the tempera-ture was45°below zero,and each time Perrault fell into the water,he had to light a fire to dry and warm himself.Once,the sledge fell through the ice,with Dave and Buck,and they were covered in ice by the time Perrault and Francois pulled them out of the river.Again,a fire was needed to save them.Another time,Spitz and the dogs in front fell through the ice—Buck and Dave and Francois at the sledge had to pull backwards.That day they travelled only four hundred metres.When they got to the Hootalinqua and good ice,Buck and the other dogs were very,very tired.But they were late,so Perrault made them run faster.In three days they went a hun-dred and eighty kilometres and reached the Five Fingers.The other dogs had hard feet from years of pulling sledges,but Buck's feet were still soft from his easy life down south.All day he ran painfully,and when they camped for the night,he lay down like a dead dog.He was hungry,but he was too tired to walk to the fish,so Francois brought it to him.One day Francois made four little shoes for him,and this made Buck much more comfortable.Francois forgot the shoes one morning,and Buck refused to move.He lay on his back with his feet in the air,until Francois put the shoes on.Later his feet grew harder and the shoes were not needed.One morning,at the Pelly River,a dog called Delly went suddenly mad.She howled long and loud like a wolf and then jumped at Buck.Buck ran,with Dolly one step behind him.She could not catch him,but he could not escape from her.They ran half a kilometre,and then Buck heard Francois call to him.He turned and ran towards the man,sure that Francois would save him.Francois stood,holding his axe,and as Buck passed,the axe crashed down on Dolly's head.Buck fell down by the sledge,too tired to move.Immedi-ately,Spitz attacked him and bit his helpless enemy twice,as hard as he could.But Francois saw this,and gave Spitz a ter-rible beating for it.‘He's a wild dog,that Spitz,’said Perrault.‘One day he'll kill Buck.’‘Buck is wilder,’replied Francois.‘I've been watching him.One day he'll get very angry and he'll fight Spitz;and he'll win.’Francois was right.Buck wanted to be lead-dog.Spitz knew this and hated him.Buck started to help the other dogs when Spitz punished them for being lazy.Onemorning,Pike refused to get up,and Spitz looked for him everywhere.When he found him,he jumped at him.But suddenly,Buck at-tacked Spitz.The other dogs saw this,and it became more and more difficult for Spitz to lead them.But the days passed without a chance for a fight,and soon they were pulling into Dawson City on a cold grey afternoon.They stayed in Dawson for seven days.When they left,Perrault was carrying some more very important papers,and he wanted to travel back as fast as possible.They travelled eighty kilometres the first day,and the same the second.But it was difficult work for Francois.Buck and Spitz hated each other,and the other dogs were not afraid of Spitz any more.One night Pike stole half a fish from Spitz,and ate it standing next to Buck.And every time Buck went near Spitz,he growled and the hair on his back stood up angri-ly.The other dogs fought in their harnesses and Francois often had to stop the sledge.He knew that Buck was the problem,but Buck was too clever for him and Francois never saw him actually starting a fight.One night in camp,the dogs saw a snow rabbit and in a sec-ond they were all chasing it,with Spitz in front.Nearby was another camp,with fifty dogs,who also Joined the chase.The rabbit was running fast on top of the snow,but the snow was soft,and it was more difficult for the dogs.When Spitz caught the rabbit,throwing it in the air with his teeth,Buck was just behind.Spitz stopped,and Buck hit him,very hard.The two dogs fell in the snow.Spitz bit Buck very quickly,twice,and then jumped away,watching carefully.The time had come,and Buck knew that either he or Spitz must die.They watched one another,circling slowly.Themoon was shining brightly on the snow,and in the cold still air not a leaf moved on the trees.The other dogs finished eating the rabbit and then turned to watch.Spitz was a good fighter.He was full of hate and anger,but he was also intelligent.Every time Buck tried to bite his throat,he met Spitz's own teeth.Then,each time Buck attacked,Spitz moved and bit him on the side as he passed.After a few minutes,Buck was covered in blood.He attacked again,but this time turned at the last minute and went under Spitz,biting his left front leg.The bone broke,and Spitz was standing on three legs.Buck tried to knock Spitz down,and then repeated his earlier attack and broke Spitz's right front leg.There was no hope for Spitz now.Buck got ready for his final attack,while the circle of sixty dogs watched,and crowded nearer and nearer,waiting for the end.At last Buck jumped,in and out,and Spitz went down in the snow.A second later the waiting pack was on top of him,and Spitz had disappeared.Buck stood and watched.The wild animal had made its kill.4The new lead-dog‘Well,what did I say?Buck’s a real fighter,all right,’said Francois the next morning when hediscovered that Spitz had disappeared and that Buck was covered in blood.‘Spitz fought like a wolf,’said Perrault,as he looked at the bites all over Buck.‘And Buck fought like ten wolves,’answered Francois.‘And we'll travel faster now.No more Spitz,no more trouble.’Francois started to harness the dogs.He needed a new lead-dog,and decided that Sol-leks was the best dog that he had.But Buck jumped at Sol-leks and took his place.‘Look at Buck!’said Francois,laughing.‘He's killed Spitz,and now he wants to be lead-dog.Go away,Buck!’He pulled Buck away and tried to harness Sol-leks again.Sol-leks was unhappy too.He was frightened of Buck,and when Francois turned his back,Buck took Sol-leks’place again.Now Francois was angry.‘I'll show you!’he cried,and went to get a heavy club from the sledge.Buck remembered the man in the red coat,and moved away.This time,when Sol-leks was harnessed as lead-dog,Buck did not try to move in.He kept a few metres away and circled around Francois carefully.But when Francois called him to his old place in front of Dave,Buck refused.He had won his fight with Spitz and he wanted to be lead-dog.For an hour the two men tried to harness him.Buck did not run away,but he did not let them catch him.Finally,Francois sat down,and Perrault looked at his watch.It was getting late.The two men looked at one another and smiled Francois walked up to Sol-leks,took off his harness,led him back and harnessed him in his old place.Then he called Buck.All the other dogs were harnessed and the only empty place was now the one at the front But Buck did not move.‘Put down the club,’said Perrault.Francois dropped the club,and immediately Buck came up to the front of the team.Francois harnessed him,and in a minute the sledge was moving.Buck was an excellent leader.He moved and thought quick-ly and led the other dogs well.A new leader made no differ-ence to Dave and Sol-leks;they continued to pull hard.But the other dogs had had an easy life when Spitz was leading.They were surprised when Buck made them work hard and punished them for their mistakes Pike,the second dog,was usually lazy;but by the end of the first day he was pulling harder than he had ever pulled in his life.The first night in camp Buck fought Joe,another difficult dog,and after that there were no more problems with him.The team started t o pull together,and to move faster and faster.‘I've never seen a dog like Buck!’cried Francois,‘Never!He's worth a thousand dollars.What do you think,Perrault?’Perrault agreed.They were moving quickly,and covering more ground every day The snow was good and hard,and no new snow fell.The temperature dropped to45°below zero,and didn't change.This time there was more ice on the Thirty Mile River,and they crossed in a day.Some days they ran a hundred kilome-tres,or even more They reached Skagway in fourteen days;the fastest time ever.For three days the dogs rested in Skagway.Then Francois put his arms around Buck's neck and said goodbye to him.And that was the last of Francois and Perrault.Like other men,they passed out of Buck's life for ever.Two new men took Buck and his team back north on the long journey to Dawson,travelling with several other dog-teams.It was heavy work;the sledge was loaded with letters for the gold miners of Dawson.Buck did not like it,but he worked hard,and made the other dogs work hard,too.Each day was the same.They started early,before it was light,and at night they stopped and camped and the dogs ate.For the dogs this was the best part of the day,first eating,then resting by the fire.Buck liked to lie by the fire,looking at the burning wood.Sometimes he thought about Mr Miller's house in California.More of ten he remembered the man in the red coat and his club,the death of Curly,the fight with Spitz,and the good things that he had eaten But sometimes he remembered other things These were things that he remembered through his parents,and his parents parents,and all the dogs which had lived before him.Sometimes as he lay there,he seemed to see,in a waking dream,a different fire.And he saw next to him,not the Indian cook,but another man,a man with shorter legs,and longer arms.This m an had long hair and deep eyes,and madestrange noises in his throat He was very frightened of the dark,and looked around him all the time,holding a heavy stone in his hand.He wore the skin of an animal on his back,and Buck could see thick hair all over his body.Buck sat by the fire with this hairy man,and in the circling darkness beyond the fire he could see many eyes—the eyes of hungry animals waiting to attack.And he growled softly in his dream until the Indian cook shouted,‘Hey,Buck,wake up!’Then the strange world disappeared and Buck's eyes saw the real fire again.When they reached Dawson,the dogs were tired,and needed a week's rest But in two days they were moving south again,with another heavy load of letters.Both dogs and men were unhappy.It snowed every day as well,and on soft new snow it was harder work pulling the sledges.The men took good care of their dogs.In the evenings,the dogs ate first,the men second,and they always checked the dogs’feet before they slept.But every day the dogs became weaker.Buck had pulled sledges for three thousand kilometres that winter,and he was as tired as the others.But Dave was not only tired;he was ill.Every evening he lay down the minute after the sledge stopped,and did not stand up until morning.The men looked at him,but they could find no broken bones.Something was wrong inside.One day he started to fall down while in his harness.The sledge stopped,and the driver took him out of his harness.He wanted to give him a rest,and let him run free behind the sledge.But Dave did not want to stop working.He hated to see another dog doing his work,so he ran along beside the sledge,trying to push Sol-leks out of his place.When the sledge made its next stop,。

[英语作文]《野性的呼唤》英语优秀读后感

[英语作文]《野性的呼唤》英语优秀读后感

[英语作文]《野性的呼唤》英语优秀读后感《野性的呼唤》英语优秀读后感My Call of the Wild ------ Enlightenment of The Call of the Wild " He sings a song of the younger world, which is the song of the pack." (Chapter VII The Sounding of the Wild) When the last sentence vanished from my eyes, I can still perceive an echo of a song - a wild song, which knocks up my dizzy mind that always cheerfully sink into the so-called civilized world without questioning. Wild, is no longer a symbol of the law of jungle but a headspring where streams out love, passion, bra一very, loyalty, friendship, venture, competition and tolerance all these virtues can easily be found in the Call of the Wild. Jack London (1876-1916) is a worldwide renowned novelist. His stories successfully reflect the contradictory views of man’s nature and destiny in and against the wild, and his "fight to survive" notion has gained him and his works timeless popularity, particularly, the Call of the Wild It tells a story of a gigantic dog, named Buck, who is stolen from a rich and comfortable home and forced to learn to survive as an Alaskan sled dog. Buck, at first, is too sa一vage for the company of man until he coincidently encounters his beloved master-kindhearted John Thornton. Finally, John’s incidental death breaks Buck’s last tie to the man and drives him into h is long-desired wild with his pack. In the story, Buck and John simply adopt themselves to answer the call of the wild.When it comes to Buck’s mind that one day he will eventually lea一ve John- his master, all he wants to do is just to help him finish the gold-rush-trip. He " from then on, night and day, never put a halt, in desperation, he burst into long stretch of flight, did not to stay him (John)" (Chapter VII The Sounding of The Wild)Buck wished to remember John’s image forever, he "for two days and nights never left camp, never let Thornton out of his sight. He followed him about at his work, watched him while saw him into blankets at night and out of them in the morning…" (Chapter VII) When I read these words I just could not hold my tears bursting. Can a real man devote himself to loyalty and friendship in such a way? On the other hand, John Thornton is not only a dog-lover but also a bra一ve and venturous man. He is so straightforward and simple that makes him an accommodating man. Once he firmly roots a goal into his heart, it seems that nothing could prevent him from accomplishing it except death.I do not know whether the persistence is the most vital element to make a man successful, but what I know is that you are not far away from success once you occupy it. It is Jack London who plunges me into the animated wild from the hustle-and-bustle and from desperate city. There, I merely cannot deny the attraction of Buck’s bark, which enlightens me to pursue another lost half of the nature in mankind, and to dig out a true meaning of life. Dare we imagine that London intentionally employs Buck to set us a model with perfect characters (count barbarity out)? The answer is affirmed. We, as animals, are from the wild but shedding off more and more wild signs, which demonstrate us as the "uncivilized". However, who can fully guarantee that we ha一ve not overlooked some essential wild-endowed virtues?Especially, nowadays, it seems more crucial for us to stop looking at the post-industrialized world and to ponder for a while. When cheats, betrayals, lies, lusts and crimes stuff a materialized society, whether London uses this novel to help himself escape the reality or warn the earthy people, to us, modern man, is all the same. It appears horrible that in modern society many people are enthusiastically talking about how to build up "special relations" to the authority, deceiving and lying to each other. To them life is a mask-wearing process rather than a hard work. Every time, you browse WebPages, scandals in politics, business, the entertainment circle and even on campus crowd into your eyes. Oh, what is the essence of human beings? What is the civilization to us? Do we need to look back at where we came from? Is it good or bad for us to speak out what we think and to do what the consciences demand us to? Are we wasting talents given by the mighty nature? Be an honest, straightforward, warmhearted, emotional and responsible man or be a shrewd, cold hearted and astute hypocrite?While embracing the "civilized" rubbish, we are losing those good virtues, which are the calls of the wild. Once we lose them, we are to lose ourselves, and we will get nowhere. I wish this dreadful thought is totally a fallacy, but, now, it is chilling me hard. One day when I happen to stand on the top of a grand mountain to observe a boundless prairie enveloped by the sapphire firmament and combed by gusts of the rhythmical west wind, a morning sun sprinkles me her warmth and brilliance in a graceful way, however, at that moment, I am afraid that I cannot appreciate these beauties, I am a lost " civilized man" then. Please, please do not let come true while we are still able to answer the call of the wild.感谢您的阅读,祝您生活愉快。

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Study on the Causes of Buck’s Returning the Wild摘要:本文运用马克思主义辩证关系原理,科学地探索了巴克回归自然的内因和外因,并对人类进行了深刻的反思。

淘金热是巴克转变的一个间接原因,也是一个大背景。

巴克凭着先天优势在残酷的不断变化的环境中,学得了重要的生存法则,即“适者生存”。

由此发现,虽然外部环境在不断变化,但巴克凭着自己的能力掌握规律,以另一种方式生存。

这表明外因在一定程度上影响了事物的发展,而事物的发展是由内因决定的。

关键字:内因;外因;生存法则;适应能力。

Abstract: On the basis of Marxist dialectic, this passage makes a study on the internal and external causes of buck’s returning to the wild, and makes a reflection of human beings as well. Prevailing phenomenon of seeking gold is an indirect cause as well as a big backdrop of the time. Buck, learning against his superior advantages, learned a critical law of existence, that is, survival of the fittest. In this sense, in spite of the various environments, Buck mastered the law against his own adaptability and led a different way of life. That indicates the external causes have an effect on the development of things, while it is the internal cause that decides the final implementation of things.Key words: external causes; internal causes; law of existence; adaptability1.Introduction:The call of the wild, one of the representative works, written by Jack London, reveal many realities and truths that deserve ponder and study. On the ground of Marxist dialectic, we choose to the causes, internal and external, that push Buck to return to the wild. Any implementation of phenomenon is formed by the combined effect of internal and external causes, thus, to know the process and results of development in things, finding out the reasons is necessary. At the same time, thoughts should not be confined in things themselves, but touch the lessons and experience hiding in the development of things, that is, in the call of the wild, we should see the illumination from Buck’s shift of life, and make self-reflection. In this sense, reflection on human beings being the third part of this passage, apart from external causes and internal causes.2.External Causes2.1 The Found of Yellow MetalIt is a direct reason that leads to Buck´s hardship. It is the found of gold that increase the demand for dogs of strong muscle and long hair, which can according make them pull sled protect them from frost. Also it is the found that offers Manuel, one of the gardener´s helpers an opportunity to reduce his debt, that is to sell Buck. Buck was betrayed and forced to begin his shift of life.2.2.The Big Contrast in Living ConditionsBuck had lived the sun-kissed santé clara valley,where was beautiful and peaceful. “It stood back from the road, half-hidden among the trees, through which glimpses could be caught of the wide cool veranda that ran round its four sides. The house was approached by graveled drive ways which wound about through wide spreading lawns and under the interlacing boughs of tall poplars. Atthe rear things were on even a more spacious scale than at the front.” .“T here were great stables, where a dozen grooms and boys held forth, rows of vine-clad servants’ cottages, an endless and orderly array of outhouses , long grape arbors, green pastures, orchards, and berry patches.”And there he got well along with people, especially his little masters. “He plunged into the swimming tank or went hunting with the Judge’s sons; he escorted Mollie and Alice, the Judge’s daughters, on long twilight or early morning rambles; on wintry nights he lay at the Judge’s feet before the roaring library fire; he carried the Judge’s grandsons on his back, or rolled them in the grass, and guarded their footsteps through wild adventures down to the fountain in the stable yard, and even beyond, where the paddocks were, and the berry patches.”Besides, he enjoyed a fine pride there, “Among the terriers, he stacked imperiously, and Toots, and Ysabel he utterly ignored for he was king-----king over all creeping, crawling, flying things of Judge Miller’s place, humans included.”But after his leaving, he never enjoyed the happiness dignity as well as pride in high position. The snow-covered world was crude, chilly, and miserable, and Buck, as equally as other dogs, had to confronted that, and bore the pain of fresh and spirit that was beyond imagination.“Once the sled broke through , with Dave and Buck, and were half-frozen and all but drowned by the time they were dragged out. The usual fire was necessary to save them. They were coated solidly with ice, and the two men kept them on the run around the fire, sweating and thawing, so close that they were singed by the flames.”Not only did torture him, but also, worse, the merciless humankind who offered no adequate food, while drove the dogs to continuously proceed for miles and miles. At best, like Francois, who rubbed Buck’s soft feet and make moccasins for Buck. At least, like Mercede, who plus the weight of the sled without considering the dogs.“Again Hal’s whip fell upon the dogs. They threw themselves against the breastbands, dug their feet into the packed snow, got down low to it, and put forth all their strength. The sled held as thought it were an anchor. After two efforts, they stood still, panting. The whip was wrestling savagely.”Furthermore Buck had to cope with the clashes occurred among huskies or between them and the invaders against their weak condition. As time went by death was not the acquaintance. “Buck staggered over against the sled, exhausted, sobbing for breath, helpless. This was Spitz’s opportunity. He sprang upon Buck, and twice his teeth sank into his unresisting foe and ripped and tore the flesh to the bone.” All the said facts gradually dig Buck’s nature out, and make him a beast step by step.2.3 The Death of ThorntonThe Death of Thornton is the most direct reason of Buck’s backing to the wild. Thornton saved buck, and buck was more than grateful for him, but loved him. Buck was content to adore at a distance. He would lie by the hour, eager, alert, at Thornton’s feet, looking up to his face, upon it studying it, following with keenest interest each fleeting expression, every moment or change of feature. Or, as chance might have it, he would lie farther away, to the side or rear, watching theoutlines of the man and the occasional movements of his body. Thornton was the very master in his ideal. And it was Buck’s love for Thornton that left the wild suspended. despite his beast impulse was in summit. “ But as often as he gained the soft unbroken earth and the green shade, the love for John Thornton drew him back to the fire again.”“Thornton alone held him. The rest of mankind was as nothing.” Therefore, when Thornton died, Buck despaired to death, and entered into the wild without any nostalgia.3.Internal Causes3.1. The Strain of BuckBuck’s ancestors were wolves,known as fierce savage and crude,while in Buck’s gene,those features had been hid since his ancestors were trained by human beings. At the beginning,not only did he hatred men,but trust in them。

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