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1。 Introduction

Jack London (1876-1916) is one of the most famous American naturalist representative writers in 19th and 20th Century。 He was born a peasant family and suffered from poverty and hunger when he was just a child。 He used to sell newspapers, work as child labor, be a sailor and a pirate and so on。 He was even affected by “Gold Rush”, but his uncommon experience gave him much more than money。 When he returned from the north, he brought back much creative inspiration for his novels。 His most famous works are “Tales of the North” which based on Klondike Gold Rush's experience and knowledge。 论文网

London is one of America's most talented and most prolific writers, he plays a connecting role in American's literature history。 With his brave spirit, he broke the Victorian romanticism and sentimental style, Philip S。 Foner commented: “No American writer better than Jack London to be a clear and good spokesman represents times, because he broke the ice frozen in American literature, literature and life had to make meaningful connections。” The Call of the Wild is one of stories which describe northern life, it was written in Jack London's early literature creation period and was written in Auckland。 When the novel was just published, readers reflected enthusiastically, so the novel was published hundreds of times later。 It was translated into more than fifty kinds of words and became one of the outstanding works of world literature, making London boogied nights, which also greatly improved Jack London's position in the literary world。

2。 Literature Review

Jack London began writing when he was 20 years, since 1900, he published a number of novels continuously。 Most of his novels tell us the life story of the people who live in the United States' lower class, exposing the evils of capitalism, they have strong inpidualism and socialism color。 He is one of the most popular writers who loved by Chinese readers, he has many representative works: White Teeth, Love of Life and Martin Eden… The Call of the Wild is the first classic novel he writes, it is also one of the most successful novels whose leading roles are animals。 

The Call of the Wild became what a hot research literature that scholars around the world are competing to research it at that time。 Most scholars study its ecological theme, Li Shuying, a scholar, analyzed the novel from the point of view of ecological criticism and proposed human's responsibility for nature, “human should consider the relationship between man and nature from the overall interests of ecology。”（Li 45）I support this point very much, in today's society, as technology advances, the plundering of natural resources has become more serious, so we should protect the nature just like how we protect our human beings。 There were also some scholars studying Buck's image, Zhao Yang read Jack London's personal values by analyzing multiple images of Buck。 Many scenes of the story reflect the author's own life experience, with the expression of Buck's characters,”the author delivers us indirectly what he advocates the true meaning of life。”（Zhao 74）In that environment, the writer intents to get rid of human civilization and pursue freedom。 Wang Yuhua once published an article at Heilongjiang University Youth Science Fund Project "American Wilderness Literature Research"。 By praising the charm of this novel's wilderness literature, she analyzes the author's disgust to civilized society and hope for wilderness, “hoping to raise people's awareness of the love to the wilderness , praise to nature and re-achieve harmony with nature” （Wang 316）I am also in favor of this view, London respects naturalism, so many of his works have a naturalistic color, warning human to pay attention to the harmonious development of man and nature。。。