First impressions of Call of the Wild by Jack London
Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, Recently, I just finished reading Noel Fitzpatrick's book, Becoming The Supervet so I decided that I would start reading a book that my grandmother got me for Christmas and that is Call Of The Wild by Jack London. It actually comes with a second book which is White Rang but I'll be reading that next. So far, I'm not the biggest fan of Call of the Wild. I mostly don't like the way it's written because it is written in the perspective of the St Bernard and Scottish Collie cross-breed, Buck. The beloved dog gets stolen from his pampered life in California and shipped to Klondike to work as a sledge dog during the time of the Gold Rush. Whilst this is an interesting topic to base a fictional story on, he fact that it's all written in the perspective of Buck, kind of personifies the dog too much and you just end up losing all the emotion. It does highlight a lot of serious topics since Buck does unfortunately g...