The Call of the Wild

by Jack London

The Call of the Wild: Style 1 key example

Chapter 1: Into the Primitive
Explanation and Analysis:

The style of the novel is vividly descriptive, emphasizing the intense impact of Buck's environment on him. Some of the description is full of lush figurative language, such as this moment in Chapter 3:

With the aurora borealis flaming coldly overhead, or the stars leaping in the frost dance, and the land numb and frozen under its pall of snow, this song of the huskies might have been the defiance of life, only it was pitched in minor key, with long-drawn wailings and half-sobs, and was more the pleading of life, the articulate travail of existence.

Chapter 3: The Dominant Primordial Beast
Explanation and Analysis:

The style of the novel is vividly descriptive, emphasizing the intense impact of Buck's environment on him. Some of the description is full of lush figurative language, such as this moment in Chapter 3:

With the aurora borealis flaming coldly overhead, or the stars leaping in the frost dance, and the land numb and frozen under its pall of snow, this song of the huskies might have been the defiance of life, only it was pitched in minor key, with long-drawn wailings and half-sobs, and was more the pleading of life, the articulate travail of existence.

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