CALL OF THE WILD BY JACK LONDON ANALYSIS OF A SELECT PASSAGE FROM CALL OF THE WILD This passage is taken from page 10, I selected it as I believed it was one of the primary openings in the book that showed Jack London’s ability to describe both the psychological and physical characteristics of the people and there surroundings. In this passage Jack London describes bucks cushy lifestyle living with Judge Miller on his open …showed first 75 words of 384 total…

…showed last 75 words of 384 total…life were taken away from him when his gardener decides to sell him as a sled dog. This will have not only physical but mental affects on him as he is taken from the illusion of unreality and thrown into reality and its cruelty of the real world. The actual passage explains his role as a dog would normally be seen as, a pet this is the stereotyping of society as it generalises its surroundings.