ADVANCED READING GROUP READING LOG

Group Members: Nhy Doan, Huy, Tiffany, Han Lam

Book: The Call of The Wild
Date: Tuesday 11th of January 2022
Page Covered: 1-23 (Chapter 1 to 3)

Nhy Doan- conflict and summary

Huy- summary and reaction
Tiffany- reaction and prediction
Han Lam- setting and conflict

Setting:
- The story begins in California’s Santa Clara Valley, where Buck was born and
lived happily like a king. Also, this event happened in the fall of 1897, when the
men from over the world had flocked north because of the gold rush in Klondike,
just east of Alaska, and they needed big, athletic dogs to be sled dogs.
- “Because men, groping in the Arctic darkness, had found a yellow metal, and
because steamship and transportation companies were booming the find,
thousands of men were rushing into the Northland.” ( London, page 1)
- “And this was the manner of dog Buck was in the fall of 1897, when the Klondike
strike dragged men from all the world into the frozen North.” (London, page 2)
- “Buck lived at a big house in the sun-kissed Santa Clara Valley.” ( London, page
1)
Descriptive language:
- big house
- the frozen North
- Rushing
- Steamship and transportation companies

Conflict:

- Kind of conflict that Buck has to face in this part is Person vs Person. Buck was
tricked by Manuel and sold him to kidnappers. His neck was chained to the point
of suffocation. After that, he was subjected to beatings and tortures from these
people
- “ But when the ends of the rope were placed in the stranger's hands, he growled
menacingly.” (London, page 4)
- “ His jaws closed on the hand, nor did they relax till his senses were choked out
of him once more.” ( London, page 5)
 - “Buck described a complete circle in the air, and half of another, then crashed to
the ground on his head and chest” (London, page 7).

- Beside, Person vs Person, Buck and other dogs and Perrault and Francois also
have to face Person vs Nature conflict.
- “With four hundred miles of trail still between him and Dawson” (London, page
18)
- “Six days of exhausting toil were required to cover those thirty terrible miles.”
(London, page 18)
- “But a cold snap was on, the thermometer registering fifty below zero, and each
time he broke through he was compelled for very life to build a fire and dry his
garments.” (London, page 18)
- “A dozen times, Perrault, nosing the way broke through the ice bridges, being
saved by the long pole he carried, which he so held that it fell each time across
the hole made by his body.” (London, page 18)

Descriptive language:
- cold snap
- exhausting toil
- thirty terrible miles
- A dozen times
- choked out
- growled menacingly.
- a complete circle in the air, and half of another

Quiz:

She gazed down at the______diamond on her engagement ring. (solitary)

in the past. he used to play an _______sport, which is pole vaulting (athletic)
Have you packed your_____ for your vacation in Hawaii yet? (baggage)
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