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Overview
Author
Jack London
Year Published
1903
Type
Novel
Genre
Adventure
Perspective and Narrator
The Call of the Wild is told from a third-person limited omniscient point of view, focusing primarily on the dog Buck, except at the beginning and end of the text.
Tense
Jack London'sThe Call of the Wild is told in the past tense.
About the Title
The title, The Call of the Wild, refers to the urge of the novel's protagonist, a dog named Buck, to return to the primordial state of his wolf ancestors.
Diagrams
Summary
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Characters
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