Talk:The Call of the Wild

message: Again here's another article on a Jack London piece of work that is in desperate need of being lengthened! This is degrading to any fans of Jack London to have to read an article like this! Please would someone lengthen this! -James Pandora Adams  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.176.154.190 (talk) 20:59, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I've fleshed it out more, including more key details of Buck's life, and more key canine and human character profiles in the "main cast list" (many key pivotal characters are not profiled!). I've also edited it for accuracy!!! BTW, other editors, if they find this version "too long", should edit, not "revert", it. There are important pertinent changes here that should be preserved! Although hardly his longest novel (White Fang is much longer), The Call Of The Wild has a complex narrative. RobertGustafson (talk) 05:02, 8 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article needs to be longer!!! 

message: The story "White Fang," is often considered a sequal to the story "Call of the Wild," and even if this is not true the parallel similartie between the two is to important not to be mentioned. In "Call of the Wild," the dog goes from being a house dog to being a wild dog and in "White Fang," the dog goes from being a wild dog to a house dog? This would be an excellent way to lengthen this article! -Again James Pandora Adams  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.176.154.190 (talk) 22:29, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I've read both stories many times, and there is nothing in either to indicate that one is the sequel of the other. The two stories parallel each other (in reverse directions) but there is no continuity between the two.Mediatech492 (talk) 03:26, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I can see why many people might see White Fang as a follow-up to The Call Of The Wild, as they are often published together. But they are 2 different stories. Interestingly, although Buck and White Fang evolve in opposite directions ultimately, the individual stages they go through are similar—in the same direction. (What's more, Buck never fully goes wild [he retains his sentimental affection for the late John Thornton], and White Fang never fully domesticates [his wolf-savagery always lies just below the surface, checked only by his respect for Weedon Scott].) RobertGustafson (talk) 05:16, 8 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  What about the sequal? 

message: The tone of the article doesn't read clearly and smoothly like a good encyclopaedia article should. Sometimes the text seems clunky or childlike. There are problems also with the content of the article; some sentences trail off into areas not relevant to the article itself. 210.80.129.127 (talk) 03:25, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The text was written this way is because Jack London was a war correspondent so he used short and violent sentences, and that's what made his novels special. There was quite a lot of space for the reader to imagine and create their own scene in mind. 90.160.149.240 (talk) 21:32, 25 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Style and content of this article needs to be improved 

message: That claim is completely erroneous. It is his most popular, partly because vehement McCarthyism cast a shadow over his more intellectual works that defended and explored socialism. Too often do we think of most popular as best. I challenge a wikier to change this misconception. I believe that among the literary community, Martin Eden is generally considered to be his magnum opus.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.41.31.131 (talk) 14:05, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Generally Considered His Best? BAH!!!! 

message: If you read the novel carefully the characters leave the Yukon valley over the moutains heading east. This puts the Yeehats and final scene in the Canadian Northwest frontier not Alaska. Yes I am one of those Bonds.RichardBond (talk) 02:33, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Yeehats  

message: In the infobox, the country of the first edition is indicated as Canada. Is this correct? Wasn't this book published first in the United States? --Panda10 (talk) 23:03, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The first edition was published in 1903 by the Macmillan Company which is New York based, an offshoot of Macmillan Publishers of London England. The Macmillan Canada office was not established until 1905. As I understand it up until that time the Macmillan company did have presses in Canada in order to circumvent the high import tariff on books. So some of the first edition were printed in Canada for the Canadian market. Mediatech492 (talk) 23:46, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  First edition in Canada? 

message: There's also an Anime adaption of this novel, an approx. 70 minute movie. However, I have very little info on it, just a European VHS release which unhelpfully has no opening or closing credits (not even a title screen). I believe it to be the work of Toei (possibly the same production crew as Ginga Nagareboshi Gin), based on the animation and art-style though again I have no way of confirming this. Does anyone know more about it so a note could be added under Adaptions in the article? --TheHande (talk) 16:20, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: It was broadcasted on January 3, 1981 by Fuji-TV net. The title was "Kouya no yobigoe. Hoero, Buck.　(荒野の呼び声　吠えろバック: The Call of the Wild. Buck, bark!)" and it was a program of "NISSEI family special (:ja:日生ファミリースペシャル)" series. The director was Kouzou Morishita (:ja:森下孝三) and he is a vice-president of Toei Animation now. Time of the film is 68min. If you want to know more information, please check this Japanese page. (荒野の呼び声　吠えろバック)--Watcher0911 (talk) 12:24, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  More information is here, someone needs to create an entry for it on Wikipedia and also add a reference on The Call of the Wild article as well. Hei Liebrecht 17:30, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anime adaption 

message: I will be using the source below and don't know how to format {sfn} style: 
*London, Jack. The Call of the Wild and White Fang. New York: Barnes and Noble. 2003. 
These are the various chapters I'll be using: 
*Chapters > "Jack London" (no author); "The World of Jack London" (no author); "Introduction" author = Tina Gianquitto; "Endnotes" author = Tina Gianquitto; "Inspired by The Call of the Wild" (no author); "Comments and Questions" (no author)
Thanks. Truthkeeper (talk) 21:53, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source 

message: A copyedit has now twice been reverted, described as "erroneous".,   I have access to the sources and wrote most of the text in the article, so am interested to know what's erroneous. Will change anything that's inaccurate. Thanks. Truthkeeper (talk) 18:36, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I reverted back to your edits after a lot of digging. I don't know who messed them up, but the page went through a lot of unnoticed vandalism between edits of a certain range. I corrected all of that today as well. Your version of the lead is far cleaner and more informative. Icarus of old (talk) 02:03, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: This had fallen off my watchlist and I'd forgotten about it, but thanks for reinstating. I'd already reverted at least once. Truthkeeper (talk) 15:41, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Reverted copyedits

message: 99.246.93.154 (talk) 03:33, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, there are several abridged versions. Mediatech492 (talk) 19:14, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is there an abridged version or something? 

message: Without having read the cited article by Donald Pizer, "Jack London: The Problem of Form", I am curious about his "evident finding" of "a Christian theme of love and redemption as shown by Buck's refusal to revert to violence until after the death of Thorton..."  Buck engages in and even initiates physical violence several times in the story, beginning with his repeated attacks on a human, the man in the red shirt. Most of the fighting in the middle part of the story is then dog-on-dog and some of it is quite pronounced as in a fight to the death with Spitz. Later Buck attacks another human with intentions to kill him. This occurs in Chapter VI: "For the Love of a Man", just prior to Buck saving Thornton from drowning. While at a bar, a character named "Black" Burton accosts Thornton inciting Buck to primordaly lunge for Burton and take two attempts at his throat. Even after Buck is separated from the man, he continues to "prowl up and down, growling furiously, attempting to rush in..."  This incident is significant in that Thonton is alive and well able to defend himself and Burton is implicitly a Caucasian, not a nameless aboriginal, but Buck still attepmts to solve the problem immediately and ultimately with physical violence. 
  I admit again I have not read Mr. Pizer's essay. Does he write about the incidents I have mentioned with a reconciliation to his point above?  Dmw15101 (talk) 13:15, 3 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Themes" / Donald Pizer 

message: The disambig page shows a poem of the same name by Robert Service. Did Jack London take his title from this? Valetude (talk) 11:56, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Title