The call of the wild potx

- Time indicators - Significant changes - Characteristics “The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life” “The pain of the beating was dull and di

T h e c a l l o f t h e w i l d

Jack London

- Buck -half St Bernard and half sheepdog

- Judge Miller's estate - California Santa Clara Valley

- The Gold rush - kidnapped by Manuel- a gardener

- Be sold to a dog trader - beaten with strong club

- The death of Curly

- Be sold to Francois & Perrault (mail carriers)- learn to survive

- Fierce rivalry between Buck and Spitz - lead dog

- Makes record time – exhausted

- Be sold to Hal, Charles & Mercedes (gold hunters) =>Awful situation

Rising actions

- Meet John Thornton – warning

- Buck refuses to go

- John saves Buck

- Gold hunters and dogs drowns

Climax

- Buck’s total love and loyalty for John Thornton

- Protects John from a fight

- Saves John from drowning in a river

- Wins a bet by pulling a heavy sled

- Feels the call of his ancient

- Search in a lost mine

- Befriends with wolves – hunts moose

Falling action

- John is killed by Yeehat Indians

- Buck kills some Indians

- Into the wild – legend

- Returns to memorize

Climax 2

Rising action

- The law of the club

-- Sleddog life - out of moral considerationsThe law of the fang

- Buck >< Spitz- The lead dog with distinctive leading styleMASTER Solution

- Inexperienced mastery of Hal, Charles & Mercedes

LAST THRESHOLD

- Time indicators

- Significant changes

- Characteristics

“The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring

murmur of awakening life”

“The pain of the beating was dull and distant, just as the thing their eyes saw and their ears heard seemed dull and distant”

- Significant changes in fate

“If you strike that dog again, I’ll kill you”

- All characteristics are shown

- Human’s stubborness and stupidness

“They told us we couldn’t make White River, and here we are”

“ She screamed, cried, laughed, and manifested the chaotic

abandonment of hysteria”

The Death

- Buck’s strong spirit and nature distinction

“He refused to move under the rain of heavier blows which now fell

upon him”

“He had made up his mind not to get up”

“He sensed a disaster colsed at hand”

“The last sensation of pain left him”

“It was no longer his body, it seems so far away”

A servant under clubs and whips

A friend in the hand of care

Tamed Wild

Happy ending ???

Falling action

- Devotion and love

- Growing nature instinct

- Devotion and love

“Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time”

“Feverish and burning”

Falling action

- An ideal master

- His own children

“He never forgot a kindly greeting or a cheering word, and to sit down for a long talk with them was as much his delight as

theirs”

“his heart would be shaken out of his body so great was

its ecstasy”

“seize Thornton’s hand in his mouth and close so fiercely that

the flesh bore the impress of his teeth for some time

afterward”

“He would return the gaze, without speech, his heart shining

out of his eyes as Buck’s heart shone out”

- Jumps off a cliff as commanded

- Protects from fighting

- Saves life

- Wins a bet

“No sir, you can go to hell sir It’s the best I can do for you, sir”

Falling action

- Nature instinct

“Show mercy was misunderstood for fear, and such

misunderstood made for death”

A tiredless and patient hunting

Falling action

Devotion and love Growing nature instinct

Waiting for?

Climax 2

“It left a great void in him, a void which ached and ached, and which

food could not fill”

“Thorton alone held him

The rest of mankind was nothing”

“He had killed man, the noblest game of all, and he had killed in the face of law of club

and fang”

Ending

- Complete transformation

- Great and endless love

Complete transformation

Pain Kill Yeehat Indians

Take revenge

Break the tie

“The many-noted call, sounding more luringly and compellingly than

ever before”

“And as never before, he was ready to obey”The new King

Ending

- The love for a man

Point of view

- Omniscient third-person

“ But Buck processed a quality that made for greatness – imagination”

“ His face and body were scored by the teeth of many dogs, and he

fought as fiercely as ever and more shrewdly”

- Pronouns and Proper names

- Reflect thoughts

“and from that moment Buck hated him with a bitter and

deathless hatred”

- Wander freely

Point of view

- Pronouns and Proper names

- Reflect thoughts

- Wander freely in the scene

Thanks for listening!

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Phạm Anh Minh Nguyễn Thị Linh Phượng