Major Works
Major Works
•The People of the Abyss(1903) 深渊中的人们 • The Call of the Wild(1903) 野性的呼唤 • The Sea Wolf(1904) 海狼 • White Fang(1906) 白牙 • Love of Life (1907) 热爱生命 •The Iron Heel(1908) 铁蹄 • Martin Eden(1909) 马丁.伊登 • The Valley of the Moon(1912) 月谷 • The Star Rover(1915) 星游人 • The Little Lady of the Big House(1916)大屋里的小妇人
Wolf House
特怀曼·L·托尔利在《狼的智慧》中对狼有很好的描述及 概括。
狼是陆地上生物最高的食物链终结者之一，群居动物中 最有秩序，纪律的族群。由于有狼的存在，其他野生动物 才得以淘汰老弱残的不良族群；也因为有狼的威胁存在， 其它野生动物才被迫进化得更优秀，以免被狼淘汰；也因 为有狼非常强的生存能力，适应能力。
Writing Style
Writing Style
•He was fascinated by the way violence tested and refined human character. Without much stylistic and formal refinement and subtlety of characterization, London’s fiction has the unusual and intriguing power of ancient myth. Although his work can never be classed rough realism, he will always be remembered as the originator of a new type of writing called rough realism. •Forceful, and colorful; Subjectivity and enthusiasm •His characterizations were often stiff and his dialogue stereotyped. •Themes: primitive violence, Anglo-Saxon supremacy, biological evolution, class warfare, and mechanistic determinism.
The Son of the Wolf(1900)
writer
reporter
died from a gastrointestinal of uremia (尿毒 症)though it was widely supposed that he committed suicide.(at 40)
1916
River
the United States
The Call of the Wild: Background
In August 1896, gold was discovered in Rabbit Creek in the Yukon Territory of western Canada.
Hale Waihona Puke he Call of the Wild: Background
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
wheeler, he always fierce to his companions, but he could not always get at Buck. Finally, he was killed by Buck.
Dave: an experienced wheeler, nipped Buck's hind quarters whenever he was in error.
• Of these, only about 30,000 completed the trip. The rest either stopped somewhere along the way, turned around, or died.
The Call of the Wild: Background
malnutrition • long journeys on foot
• hundreds of pounds of supplies to transport
The Call of the Wild: Background
• About 100,000 people started out in hopes of reaching the Klondike River and finding gold.
When news of the find reached the United States, the Klondike gold rush was on.
The Call of the Wild: Background
The gold prospectors, known as “Klondikers,” faced harsh conditions: • temperatures 40 degrees below zero • starvation and
Siberian huskies
Alaskan malamutes Samoyeds
The Call of the Wild: Background In this harsh and hostile environment like the Yukon Territory,
survival is the ultimate challenge.
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
• Hal and Charles: foolish and callow • Mercedes: spoiled and sentimental
• Poor plan
John Thornton
• a seasoned gold prospector
• having a deep, abiding and reciprocal love blossoms between man and dog
The Call of the Wild: Background If strength, courage, and adaptability are the keys to survival,
then our hero, Buck, stands a pretty good chance.
Plot
sailor of a sealing schooner(at 17)
1896
jailed for vagrancy
finished high school(at 19)
1895
University of California(at 20)
1897 Klondike Gold Rush(at 21)
Jack London
A realistic writer
Life Experiences
Writing Style
Major Works
Life Experiences
1890
child laborer in a cannery (at 14)
oyster pirate(at 15)
1891
1893
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
Buck- the main character
• Full of fighting spirit - the survival of the fittest.
• The vicious and cunning rulers • Love, loyalty to his owner
•The call of the wild
Speak out your thinking.
Any opinion is appreciated.
• Full of fighting spirit - the survival of
the fittest.
He did not steal for joy of it, but because of the clamor of his stomach. He did not rob openly , but stole secretly and cunningly , out of respect for club and fang. In short ,the things he did were done because it was easier to de them than not to do them. 他偷东西不是为了从中得到乐趣，而是因为肚子 太饿。他不明目张胆地去抢，而是耍点小手腕去 偷，这是考虑到木棒和利齿所致。简言之，他之 所以这么做是因为做比不做更容易些。