Yesterday I read The Call of The Wild by Jack London. The book is a hardback novel and the cover is an attractive picture of a blonde haired man with his dog sled team. It was a fairly skinny novel and was large print so it was very easy to read. The book was fairly easy to connect with on a personal basis because the book is set in Alaska and their weather there is much the same as our's here in Saskatchewan. Also I have a dog that acts a lot like the main dog in this book, Buck. But there were some things I couldn't connect with such as the time setting. I couldn't imagine having to rely on a dog sled team to bring in the mail, food, medicine and other necessities. They also got a lot more snow storms than we do. A couple of times in the book they had such bad storms that you couldn't even see more than a foot or two in front of your face and yet the dog sled team had to go on because people were relying on them. And all of the people are always dressed in super big parkas because it is always cold, and even when it is nice it can turn cold in an instant. You always had to be prepared or else you died, it was a harsh life. After a few chapters of the book I predicted that at the end of the book Buck would have to chose between his love for his master and his love for the wild and freedom. I was right in that prediction but I also predicted that he would chose his master. I was wrong there, Buck chose to go live free in the wild. I think that his master let him go because he loved Buck so much that he wanted Buck to be perfectly happy but I still wonder how he could do that. Buck was the main leader of his dog sled team and without Buck he will have a tough time making anymore runs. When he let Buck go he basically gave up his job and his only source of income. He also gave up the thing he loved the most, his dog. Buck was his only real friend. How could you love a dog that much that you would be willing to sacrifice so much for his happiness? I liked the book but thought that the ending was a little foolish. Would a person ever actually give up that much for an animal. Other than that it was a good book and I enjoyed reading it.