The final report: You will never know whom you turn out to be

Before this book, I’ve already read the Chinese translated one when I was very young. The brave and unselfish dog deeply impressed me at that time. However, after this reading, I found out something more than that.

The domesticated dog Buck was supposed to spend his rest years in a comfortable room at ranch. He enjoyed his soft, sun-kissed kennel, spoiled by love from the family. Then suddenly, he is reduced to nothing. Trough that tough Canadian wilderness, he was beaten and kicked and forced to pull sleds for human, the one who is nothing like his nice owner, even the dogs looked so fierce, like someone born to be a killer. Life made a big joke to him.

This horrible experience, though, didn’t destroy him at all. He soon learned “the law of the club”, kill or be killed. It made him stronger, more aggressive, and he ultimately won a new kingdom.

I think this story would not be so famous if it ended there. After became the king, Buck met John, then he knew whom he was going to fight for. John’s representation shows that there still be something good and nature inside Buck, in human-dog relationship. It is a nice mixture of adventure, villainy and romance, and it’s the main reason I love this story.

The call of the wild is not only a story about dog. It is a celebration of wildness, a poem for human spirit. The life Buck went through is just like ours --- We will all undergo some really tough time, we fail over and over again, we feel frustrated, even hopeless, but we’ll never stop fighting. At first, it might be for our own survive, but then, it will be for love, for our family and friends. After all of this, the experience that provide us with great insight molds who we are right now, and it’s much better than we thought.

This story reminds me of the time when I was in high school. At that time, college entrance examination is like an impossible session for me. I had to fight with 900,000 students to get the permission for my ideal university. It was a real hard time. I slept only five or less hours every day, did nothing but studying. At first, I was overwhelmed by the heavy burden I put on my shoulder, but quickly, I got used to it, and kept on fighting till the end. I made it. You will never know how excited, how bittersweet I felt at that moment. That year I went though, the support from my family and my friends became the eternal memory that I valued most.

When Buck stayed in his sweet home, he would never know he was a king, a wild one that better suits his true destiny as a wild animal. When I entranced my high school, I didn’t think of any possibility to be in such a great university. But we made it, eventually.

After this quarter, I have to head back to my school. I know it will be a hard a year for me because I’m trying to apply to a graduated school in America. However, this book gives me more courage to face it, to fight against it. As I said in the beginning, you will never know whom you turn out to be.

PS:

It turned out that they do have the movie, but it was made in 1978, super old, and the story is a little lack of respect to London's work. I was let down! LOL