UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAPALOAPAN

CAMPUS TUXTEPEC

Ciencias Empresariales

José Julián Avendaño García

1. In what year was the book The Call of the Jungle published?

In 1903
2. Who is Jack London?
Jack London was an American novelist and short story writer who was characterized
by romantic adventure and realistic storytelling in which the human being
dramatically faces his survival.

3. Who is Buck?

Buck is a dog that is a cross of a St. Bernard with a Scottish Shepherd, with strong
musculature and long and warm fur.
4. Where does Buck live at the beginning of the story?
He lived in a large house in the sunny valley of Santa Clara.
5. Who kidnapped Buck?
He was kidnapped by Manuel, the gardener's assistant.
6. What is a club and what does it mean to Buck?
The club is the place he is taken to after the kidnapping, it is the team of dogs that
pulls a sled, the club represents for Buck a way to survive.
7. Who are Perrault and François?
They are two Frenchmen who are Buck's first new masters. They work for the
Canadian government.
8. Why did Perrault and François buy Buck?
To use it as a sled shooting dog.
9. What did Buck discover on the deck of the Narwhal ship?
Discover snow for the first time.
10. Summarize the story of chapter one in one paragraph.

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Buck is a cross dog of St. Bernard and Scottish shepherd, has four years of life, lived
the life of a domestic dog, in Northern California, until one night Manuel the gardener,
kidnaps him and sells him as a sled dog, to feed his large family. After being sold
Buck spends nights of great pain that help him understand the "Law of the Club",
until he is finally sold to two French-Canadians Francois and Perrault.
11. Look for photos of the Japanese Pug, Xoloitzcuintli, St. Bernard,
Scottish Shepherd, Newfoundland, Spitzbergen, and Husky dogs.

12. How did the Husky dogs fight on Dyea Beach?

They fought violently and cruelly
13. What lessons should a new sled dog learn?
• To deal with the wolves, attacking quickly and retreating, to stay safe and deal
the next blow from another site.

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 • Be alert and respect the law of the club and the tusk, that is, the law of the
strongest
14. What does Spitz try to do with each new sled dog?
Spitz showed each new sled dog that he was the one who guided, occasionally
grunted with reproach, or cunningly threw his weight on the reins to force him to
follow the right course.
15. Why did Buck learn to eat fast and steal food?
Because he realized that his companions who had just finished before stole the pig
that hehad not consumed toún and no had a way to defend it and there was so much
hunger that he ate what was not his.
16. In what situations do you practice the law of love and
companionship?
In the southern regions the law of love and companionship was practiced with
situations of respect for private property and personal feelings.
17. In what situations do you practice the law of the club and the
tusk?
In the northern regions, the law of the club and the tusk was placed in the law of the
strongest and if they were not complied with you would not be able to get ahead,
there is no company, it is necessary to learn to survive alone.
18. In the author's opinion, what does it mean for Buck to learn to
howl?

Signifies that Buck was learning fast and was getting better, and that he could soon
be as effective as spitz.

19. Compare and contrast the wild huskies they attacked with the sled
dogs.
Huskies were wilder and more violent dogs than sled dogs, their advantage was
notorious, and although sled dogs were also good at fighting, huskies were still
superior.
20. Who emerged victorious in the fight and why?
Huskies, because they were more violent and strong than sled dogs.
21. How and why did Buck undermine Spitz's leadership?

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Buck's nature demanded it, because he had been seized by that indescribable and
incomprehensible pride in the trail and the harness, a pride that sustains those dogs
in their effort until the last breath, that drives them to die in the shot with joy and tears
their hearts out if they are excluded from the team.
22. How did Buck defeat Spitz in their match?
Buckhead quality that supplied corpulence, and that was imagination. Atacor as if
trying the previous trick of the shoulder, but in the last moment he crouched on the
snow and his teeth captured Spitz's left front leg. There was a crackling bone crunch,
and the white dog faced him with three legs. For three times I tried, or Buck knocked
him down, and then he repeated the last trick and broke Spitz the other front leg.
23. How did Buck convince the sled drivers to let him be the leader?
He showed them that he deserved the position, he had earned it, and when the place
of leader was empty, he ran to take the place, and although the drivers of the sled
did not have enough confidence in him, Buck, did not move from the place of leader
and it was more than clear that if necessary he would fight with someone else for
that place as he did with Spitz.
24. What record did the dog team set?
The record was that in the fourteen daysthat lastedor they made an average of
seventy kilo or meters per day.
25. What thoughts, memories, and visions did Buck have when he
saw the fire?
Sometimes I thought of Judge Miller's vast estate in the sunny Santa Clara Valley,
of the cement tank where he swam, of Ysabel, the Chihuahua, and of Toots, the
Japanese dog; but more often he evoked the man in the red jersey, Curly's death,
the great duel with Spitz, and the good things he hadeaten or liked. to eat. I didn't
feelnostalgic. The memories of the sunny lands were diffuse and distant and did not
influence him. Much morepowerful was hereditary memory, which made youseem
familiar with things never seen before.
26. What do you think was the problem that the dog Dave developed?
It was that he was always very calm, even when others were in battles, he didn't care
about anything, his only intention was to be left alone and calm.

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 27. How did Dave die?
If Dave was going to die, I better die hooked, happy, and content. So, they put the
harnesses on him and hebegan to throw with pride as before, although more
thanonce he groaned without being able to avoid the penetrating pain of hisentries.
Many times, he collapsed and was dragged by the others, and in an ocasiorn the
sled took himor ahead, and from that moment he was leftor limping from one of the
hind legs.
But he endured until he reached the camp, where the driver made him a place by
the fire. By the morningIfound itor too débil to travel. At the time of the hitch, I tried
to get to the driver anyway. With a convulsive effort he stood up, hesitated or and
fellor. Then he began to crawl slowly to the place where they were hooking the dogs.
I advanced the front legs and dragged the rest of the body, and I did it againto win a
short stretch each time. The forces abandoned him, and the last time his
companionssaw himgasping on the snow, looking atthem with longing. But they
heard him howl in a pitiful way until they lost sight of each other behind row of trees.
28. Describe Charles, Hal y Mercedes.
Charles was middle-aged, browner, had short-sighted, watery gaze and a mustache
that writhed furiously upwards as if to compensate for the apparent softness of the
lip he concealed.
Hal was a young man of nineteen or twentyyearsold, with a largeColt revolver and a
hunting knife fastened to his body by a waistorn fitted with cartridges. This waist
wasthe most striking element of his person. He proclaimed his immaturity, an
absolute and ineffable immaturity.
Mercedes was Charles' wife and Hal's sister.
29. Why weren't they fit to survive in the desert with a dog sled?
Because sled dogs didn't know how to defend themselves on such terrain.
30. What happened to the overloaded sled and the possessions it
carried?
Taking a curve with speed, the sled overturned, scattering half of the poorly secured
load.
31. Why are fourteen dogs too many for an Arctic sled?

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There is an obvious reason why on a trip through the Arctic fourteen dogs should
not pull a sled, and that is that in a single sled there is no room for food for fourteen
dogs.
32. Why do you think the author describes the beauty of the spring
awakening?
The ghostly silence of winter had given way to the intense spring murmur of the
awakening of life. It was a murmur that arosefrom all the earth, filled with vital joy.
Iemerged from the things that livedagain and throbed, things that hadbeen like dead
and that had not movedduring the long months offrí o. Being alive is a gift that life
gives us, many times we are worried about making other plans and we forget to
contemplate the beauty of a sunrise, the bloom of a new day.
33. What happened to Charles, Hal, and Mercedes?
During the explosions, turbulences and vibrations of the awakening life, under the
shining sun and with the breeze that whispered around them, the two men, the
woman and the dogs, advanced hesitantly, as if on a pilgrimage to death.
34. Describe the character of John Thornton.
A kind-hearted person, a living reflection of kindness and love.
35. Why did Buck love John Thornton?
Because he saved him from a beating, he defended him as one who defends a good
friend.
36. How does the author think Buck's ancestors influence his life?
Buck has memories of those four years he lived happily, and that helps him
remember that there are still good people like John.
37. It explains the call of the wild and the comfort of fire.
Dogs do not act directed by abstract reasoning, but by instinct, sensations, and
emotions, and by simple reasoning.
38. In what situations did Buck defend Thornton from danger?
He saved him from drowning, because the canoe they were in capsized and
Thornton was being swept away by the current, but Buck followed him to safety.
39. What did Buck do to make a lot of money for Thornton?

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He tore off and dragged a 500-kilo sled for a hundred meters on his own, as Thornton
had talked too much, and some miners had bet him that he was not able to do so.
40. Why did Thornton and his partners travel east, into the desert?
They went in search of a lost mine that had a history as old as the place where it
was located. There were many who hadsought her, few who hadfound her and a few
who had neverreturned. That lost mine was steeped in tragedy and shrouded in a
veil of mystery. No one knewwhoI haddiscovered.
41. Why did Buck return to camp after meeting and traveling with the
wolf?
Because he had chased the Yeehat to kill them one by one.
42. What was Buck's process for hunting and killing the great
moose?
He observed the herd and knew that he had to move the big moose away from the
others to have a chance, when he had it he injured him, but the rest of the herd
managed to protect him, there he would begin his hunt, he followed them throughout
his journey, far but close, he waited for the right moment when he could no longer
do it because he was so badly injured and without much effort he finished it off.
43. Do you think it's possible that a dog like Buck could lead a pack
of wolves?
Buck is very cunning and learns fast and has leader wood, but knowing the nature
of wolves, he would have to earn their respect so that he could lead them.
44. What is the yellow stream that sinks into the earth?
It is a stream of yellow waters by rotten sacks of moose skin that sinks into the earth,
between high grasses that protect that yellow from the sun.
45. What does this image of the glowing yellow stream mean?
It is the reflection of all the moose that have been killed in that stream and whose
skins give that yellowish color.
46. How does it relate to the Steinbeck pearl sinking into the sand?
It is related to the fact of letting sink what stops us, that does not let us advance and
what has more negative weight generates in our life and what we should get rid of.

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Not all that shines is gold, and if it shines, such brightness does not always bring us
benefits, it could also harm us.

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