党员演讲稿故事:the call of the wild 野性的呼唤的主要内容（英语）

一只雪橇狗,巴克,经历了不同性格的主人和不同的狗..开始的主人对他粗暴,虐待他...有狗跟他友好,有的则攻击他,被他杀掉...经历一系列困难后,遇到一个好主人,对他特别好....但他对森林中的声音很好奇,那是狼的嚎叫声..最后他的主人被印地安人打死,他跟一只老狼回到了大自然的怀抱...
很好的 书..很粗犷的笔风..

杰克·伦敦（1876-1916），美国著名作家。主要作品有：《狼的孩子》、《野性的呼唤》、《白牙》等19部中长篇小说和《热爱生命》、《猎熊的孩子》等150余篇短篇小说。尤其以动物小说引人注目，笔力雄健，气势恢弘，充满着生命的抗争，深受到全世界少年儿童的广泛喜爱，被译成近70种文字，在世界文坛上享有盛誉。 《野性的呼唤》是杰克·伦敦的代表作之一。在美国，不仅被许多学校指定为课外必读书，还被改编成电影，家喻户晓，被誉为世界动物小说的奠基之作。小说的主人公巴克是一条血统优良的狗，性格文雅温顺，自幼生长在南方，过着悠闲舒适的生活。自从有一天，它被人偷偷买掉后，生活、性格都发生了巨大的变化……小说生动地叙述了巴克被买到北方后，怎样适应残酷的现实，成为一只最著名的雪橇狗，最后它又怎样变成一条狼……小说自始至终洋溢着一种热爱生活、努力生存、坚忍不拔、勇往直前的精神，蕴涵着深刻的人生体验和深厚的社会文化内涵。

此书主要讲述一条狗——“巴克”的故事，但它却远远超越了一般的动物故事。杰克·伦敦曾提醒读者：“这是个动物故事，但在主题和处理上都和其他非常成功的动物故事不同”。本书是一个含义深刻的现代寓言。这个故事从多个层面，展示了小说主题的多义性，并折射了作家所信仰的多种哲学和社会观，其中包括马克思主义、达尔文进化论、斯宾塞的社会达尔文主义以及尼采的超人哲学。

《野性的呼唤》是最受读者青睐的动物小说之一，被称为“世界上读者最多的美国小说”。在小说出版的当天，1000册即宣布告罄，此后半个世纪在美国和世界各地售出近2000万册。这部小说语言易读易懂，集动物故事、探索故事、寓言故事和神秘故事于一身，给人有激励和勇气，适合各年龄层次、具有不同审美情趣的读者。

Jack London's classic 1903 story of Buck, a courageous dog fighting for survival in the Alaskan wilderness, is widely considered to be his masterpiece. Sometimes wrongly considered simply a children's novel, this epic vividly evokes the harsh and frozen Yukon during the Gold Rush. As Buck is ripped from his pampered surroundings and shipped to Alaska to be a sled dog, his primitive, wolflike nature begins to emerge. Savage struggles and timeless bonds between man, dog, and wilderness are played to their heartrending extremes, as Buck undertakes a mystic journey that transforms him into the legendary "Ghost Dog" of the Klondike.

是关于一条凶猛、聪明、而人性化的狼狗“巴克”。它被主人买下并跟随主人一起到寒冷的北方寻找金子，在那里淘金的人们从为了生存和发财互相帮助到发现金子后互相设计，明争暗夺，甚至不惜付出生命。而巴克则在那里与一群狼从战斗到最后融入到那个野性的世界，最后率领群狼回到基地为主人报仇。书的特点就是将狗写得很人性化，表现了人兽性的一面！我特别喜欢那条狗，它总能创造奇迹！还有狼群对那条优秀的狼狗本性的呼唤，总让我在寂静的时候想到狼的长嗥！仿佛看到空旷的原野上巴克率领着群狼自由自在的奔跑！我很喜欢这本书，强烈建议楼主看一下！
最好能看英文的！
书虫系列有这本书，如果看不了原版，可以考虑看书虫，都很精彩！

As the story opens, Buck, a powerful St. Bernard-Scotch Collie,lives a comfortable life in California's Santa Clara Valley as the pet of Judge Miller. Manuel, the gardener's assistant, steals Buck and sells him to pay a gambling debt. Shipped to Seattle, Buck is harassed in his crate and given nothing to eat or drink. Released from the crate, he confronts and is beaten by the "man in the red sweater", and is taught to respect the club. Buck is bought by a pair of French-Canadian dispatchers from the Canadian government named François and Perrault, who take him to the Klondike region of Canada and train him as a sled dog where he quickly learns how to survive the cold winter nights and the pack society by observing his teammates. He and the vicious, quarrelsome lead dog, Spitz, develop a rivalry. Buck eventually beats Spitz in a fight "to the death". Spitz is killed by the pack after his defeat and Buck becomes the leader of the team.
The sled dog team is sold to a "Scottish half breed" man working in the mail service. The dogs carry a heavy load and the journey they make is tiresome and long. After a long time with this owner, the dogs are beat down and so tired that they can no longer make the trek. Some of the dogs are shot and some are eaten by wolves.
A dog sled in Dawson City (1900)
Buck is then sold to a trio of stampeders; Hal, Charles, and a woman named Mercedes. They have little experience of survival in the Northern wilderness, struggle to control the sled, and ignore warnings about the dangers of travel during the spring melt. They overfeed the dogs and starve them when the food supply runs out. On their journey they meet John Thornton, an experienced outdoorsman, who notices that the dogs poorly treated and in a weakened condition. He warns the trio against crossing the river, but they refuse his advice and order Buck to move on. Exhausted, starving, and sensing the danger ahead, Buck refuses and continues to lie unmoving in the snow. After Buck is beaten by Hal, Thornton recognizes him to be a remarkable dog. Disgusted by the driver's treatment of Buck, Thornton cuts him free from his traces and tells the trio he's keeping him, much to Hal's displeasure. After some argument, the trio leaves and tries to cross the river, but as Thornton warned, the ice gives way and the three fall into the river along with the neglected dogs and sled.[3]
Thornton nurses Buck back to health, and Buck comes to love him and grows devoted to him. Buck saves Thornton when the man falls into a river. Thornton then takes him on trips to pan for gold. During one such trip, a man wagers Thornton on Buck's strength and devotion; the dog wins the bet by breaking a half-ton sled free of the frozen ground, pulling it 100 yards, and winning $1600 in gold dust for Thornton.[4] While Thornton and his friends continue their search for gold, Buck explores the wilderness and begins to socialize with a timber wolf from a local pack. One night, he returns from a short hunt to find that his beloved master and the others in the camp have been killed by a group of Yeehat Indians. Buck eventually kills the Indians to avenge Thornton, and he then follows the wolf into the forest and answers the call of the wild. At the end of the story, Buck returns each year, as the Ghost Dog of the Northland Legend, to mourn at the site of Thornton's death.[5][edit]