The Call of the Wild
by Jack London

The Call of the Wild: Genre 1 key example

Chapter 1: Into the Primitive
Explanation and Analysis:

The Call of the Wild is an adventure novel. Adventure fiction, which became popular in the 19th and early 20th centuries, generally follows a character and their development through fantastical and dangerous events that are beyond the scope of what someone would usually experience in day-to-day life. Buck's "ordinary" life is interrupted by his kidnapping and subsequent adventures in the Yukon. Although London himself spent time in the Yukon, the gold rush and the harsh conditions of life Buck experiences would have seemed outlandish and extraordinary to most of his readers.