The Call of the Wild

The Call of the Wild written by Jack London is the most wonderful novel I had ever read. This is also the first English novel of original work I had ever finished reading. It attracts me so much that I finished reading by one whole day. I was so absorbing in it that I even forget all the things which had troubled me those days. I can see the picture in the novel, I think I even can imagine the look of Buck, even every details on his face.

The Call of the Wild published in 1903, and became the best seller during that time. Its background is the unexplored north areas of America and the Klondike strikes which dragged men from all the world into the frozen North to look for gold. These men wanted heavy dogs, with strong muscles by which to toil and fury coats to protect them from the frost. Buck was a victim during this gold rush, and he was sold to the dog dealers by Manuel, a gardener’s helper who is also a confirmed gambler. Buck used to live a happy life in Judge Miller’s place where he gained respect from all creeping, crawling things, humans included. However the long struggle journey, Buck was handed over a man in the red sweater. During his life in there, he learned the law of the club and fang and, which made him avoid many troubles. Then he was sold to the next tormentors or the masters—two Canada government mails deliveries and went to the frozen north and became a sled dog. Under the rugged environment, Buck learned many survival skills, such as how to sled, how to sleep at night with warmness, how to steal food without starvation. Buck learned the law of jungle and survival of the fittest. He fight with the ferocious lead dog—Spitz, and replaced his place by his wits and strength, and soon became a famous leader dog. After this delivery, Buck’s team were sold to three stupid and stubborn gold diggers from south who did not know how to control the dogs and continued to oppressing the dog which leaded some dogs’ death. Fortunately, Buck came across Thornton, another gold digger, who saved the dying Buck’s life from these three gold diggers. However, other dogs and their masters all died by dropping in the cold river while ignoring Thornton’s warning. Thornton loved Buck, and so did him. Buck felt a kind a happiness he never felt before even in Judge Miller’s place. During Thornton’s toil, Buck saved his life twice and once won his wager, and they became unbreakable friends. There was a call from the forest that attracted Buck so much that awaked his primitive wildness. While once during his hunting for a moose for four days, Thornton and his friends were killed by the Indians. Buck was so angry that killed some Indians for revenge. Finally he came back the forest and became a leader wolf, but he would go to cave and mourn his friend Thornton every year.

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Abstract: I read The Call of the Wild during May Day, a novel by Jack London who was an American author. Buck, a domesticated dog living at a ranch in the Santa Clara valley of California is the novel's central character. Unfortunately, he is stolen by the gardener and sold into the brutal existence of an Alaskan sled dog. He reverts to atavistic traits. Buck has to adjust to, and survive, cruel treatments and fight to dominate other dogs in a harsh climate. He sheds the veneer of civilization, relying on primordial instincts and lessons he learns, to emerge as a leader in the wild at last. While reading the story of Buck, I shed tears of sorrow and sympathy, and was moved by great courage and the bravery he has shown in the face of every challenge. The only thing I can do is to cheer for him in silence and wish he can be stronger to fight with difficulties. From Buck, what I have learnt is to fight bravely and intellectually until the last minute in my life. And that is a great asset we should learn to gain. I choose the book to finish my book report just because I appreciate Buck very much.

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My Call of the Wild ------ Enlightenment of The Call of the Wild " He sings a song of the younger world, which is the song of the pack." (Chapter VII The Sounding of the Wild) When the last sentence vanished from my eyes, I can still perceive an echo of a song - a wild song, which knocks up my dizzy mind that always cheerfully sink into the so-called civilized world without questioning. Wild, is no longer a symbol of the law of jungle but a headspring where streams out love, passion, bravery, loyalty, friendship, venture, competition and tolerance all these virtues can easily be found in the Call of the Wild. Jack London (1876-1916) is a worldwide renowned novelist. His stories successfully reflect the contradictory views of man’s nature and destiny in and against the wild, and his "fight to survive" notion has gained him and his works timeless popularity, particularly, the Call of the Wild It tells a story of a gigantic dog, named Buck, who is stolen from a rich and comfortable home and forced to learn to survive as an Alaskan sled dog. Buck, at first, is too savage for the company of man until he coincidently encounters his beloved master-kindhearted John Thornton. Finally, John’s incidental death breaks Buck’s last tie to the man and drives him into his long-desired wild with his pack. In the story, Buck and John simply adopt themselves to answer the call of the wild. When it comes to Buck’s mind that one day he will eventually leave John- his master, all he wants to do is just to help him finish the gold-rush-trip. He " from then on, night and day, never put a halt, in desperation, he burst into long stretch of flight, did not to stay him (John)…" (Chapter VII The Sounding of The Wild) Buck wished to remember John’s image forever, he "for two days and nights never left camp, never let Thornton out of his sight. He followed him about at his work, watched him while saw him into blankets at night and out of them in the morning…" (Chapter VII) When I read these words I just could not hold my tears bursting. Can a real man devote himself to loyalty and friendship in such a way? On the other hand, John Thornton is not only a dog-lover but also a brave and venturous man. He is so straightforward and simple that makes him an accommodating man. Once he firmly roots a goal into his heart, it seems that nothing could prevent him from accomplishing it except death. I do not know whether the persistence is the most vital element to make a man successful, but what I know is that you are not far away from success once you occupy it. It is Jack London who plunges me into the animated wild from the hustle-and-bustle and from desperate city. There, I merely cannot deny the attraction of Buck’s bark, which enlightens me to pursue another lost half of the nature in mankind, and to dig out a true meaning of life. Dare we imagine that London intentionally employs Buck to set us a model with perfect characters (count barbarity out)? The answer is affirmed. We, as animals, are from the wild but shedding off more and more wild signs, which demonstrate us as the "uncivilized". However, who can fully guarantee that we have not overlooked some essential wild-endowed virtues? Especially, nowadays, it seems more crucial for us to stop looking at the post-industrialized world and to ponder for a while. When cheats, betrayals, lies, lusts and crimes stuff a materialized society, whether London uses this novel to help himself escape the reality or warn the earthy people, to us, modern man, is all the same. It appears horrible that in modern society many people are enthusiastically talking about how to build up "special relations" to the authority, deceiving and lying to each other. To them life is a mask-wearing process rather than a hard work. Every time, you browse WebPages, scandals in politics, business, the entertainment circle and even on campus crowd into your eyes. Oh, what is the essence of human beings? What is the civilization to us? Do we need to look back at where we came from? Is it good or bad for us to speak out what we think and to do what the consciences demand us to? Are we wasting talents given by the mighty nature? Be an honest, straightforward,

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The Wild is still calling

——After reading The Call of The Wild Published in 1903, The Call of the Wild is Jack London’s famous novel set during the

Klondike Gold Rush. Its author, Jack London, who had been a prospector in the Klondike Gold Rush in the late 1890s, was regarded as the America’s most famous author at that time.

The novel’s protagonist is a dog named Buck, a physically impressive dog, living the good life in California when he gets stolen and put into dog slavery. For him, this means pulling a ridiculously heavy sled through miles and miles of frozen ice with little or nothing to eat and frequent beatings. As the definition of a domestic dog, Buck is out of his element until he begins to adapt to his surroundings, and learn from the other dogs.

Buck is involved in a struggle for power with another dog, Spitz. They end up fighting and Buck wins, taking over as leader of the sled dog team. The team changes human

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The call of the wild

The Call of the Wild is one of my favorite novels. The writer of it is Jack London was born in12 January 1876 and died in 22 November 1916.He was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild and other books. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first Americans to make a lucrative career exclusively from writing.

Buck. The main character .buck was born a distinctive dog, who had inherited strength from his father and wisdom from his mother. What’s more, he was born in a notable family. Thus he was brought well without much hardship.

But the news that people have found gold in the Arctic zone made dogs a very precious transportation tool. Unfortunately, buck was sold by a greedy servant. Thus began his long journey as a transportation dog. First, he was very furious with the people who got close to him. But one day, a man who was very skillful at training dogs, beat Buck so hard that Buck learnt the lesson of Law of Club and Fang.

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The Difference and Combination of

Quantitative and Qualitative Research

Abstract: Quantitative research and qualitative research are two basic paradigms and methods, each with different concept, nature, fundamental theory, and research process. Recently, there are more and more arguments about the tow methods and more and more scholars promote the combination of them in researches. This thesis demonstrates the differences between the two methods and also analyzes the combination of them and its significance in researches.

Key words: Quantitative research, qualitative research, difference, combination

Section One The Introduction of Quantitative Research and Qualitative Research

There are two paradigms in social science research. One is the positivist methodology and the other is the humanist methodology. The positivist methodology simulates the natural science and uses inductive method to discover new knowledge, uses the “hypothesis-deduction” mode to test theory (Kerlinger, 1964), uses the method of mathematical statistics to analyze quantizable empirical observation and to assure the cause-and-effect relationship. In comparison, the humanist methodology derives from humanist science and emphasizes collecting, comprehending and explaining documents.

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美国文学选读

“父亲”美国梦的缘起缘灭

——舍伍德·安德森《鸡蛋的胜利》解析 《鸡蛋的胜利》是美国著名的小说家舍伍德·安德森传世佳作之一。舍伍德·安德森生于美国俄亥俄州卡姆丹镇，后移居到克莱德镇，而且他的很多小说就以克莱德镇为背景进行创作，《鸡蛋的胜利》就是其中一篇。舍伍德·安德森能洞悉人们是如何追求美国梦的，也明了他们梦想是如何破碎的。在这篇小说的主人翁是“父亲”，一个本性天生乐观、热情，后来变得习惯性地沉默与失意的男人。安德森通过对“父亲”由原来胸无大志到后来雄心壮志再到最后梦想破碎的简单的描写，点明了本文的主题：美国梦的破灭；而文中的“鸡蛋”则可以说是美国梦的化身。那么，美国梦到底指什么呢？是什么刺激了“父亲”美国梦的产生？有时什么使得他的美梦破产了呢？本文将针对这些问题对《鸡蛋的胜利》进行解析。

首先，我们来探讨一下什么事“美国梦”？所谓的美国梦是指一种信任只要在美国经过努力不懈的奋斗便能获得更好生活的理想，亦即人们必须透过自己的工作勤恳、勇气、创意和决心迈向饭桶， 而非依附于特定的社会阶级和他人的援助。通畅这代表了人们在经济上的成功或是企业家的精神。在《鸡蛋的胜利》一文中，“父亲”的美国梦就是出人头地，能有所成功。所以，为了实现他的美国梦，他展开了他的冒险之旅：养鸡和开饭馆。但是，因为各种各样的原因，两个计划都失败了。一系列沉重的打击使得“父亲”的激情彻底消退，这也标志着他的美国梦彻底破灭。

在小说的最开始处，作者就告诉我们：“‘父亲’天生就是个乐观、热情的人。”他过着简单、快乐和满足的生活，从没想过要往社会上层爬，或是成为什么大人物。他每天过着规律的生活：平日到农场帮工挣钱，周六骑马到镇上喝几杯啤酒乐呵一下就按时回家；然后替他的马儿清洗一下就进入梦乡。可以说“父亲”的单身生活非常快乐，甚至是浪漫的。然而，一切似乎在他三十五岁那年结束单身生活后改变了。“父亲”娶了一个乡村小学女教师并且在次年就生下了“我”。在知识女性母亲的开导与启发下，“父亲”逐渐变得有雄心了，想着要出人头地。

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