Answer: Full Title: The Call of the Wild
Author: Jack London
Type Of Work: Novel
Genre: Dog story; adventure story
Time And Place Written: 1903, California
Tone: Sweeping, romantic, heroic
Setting (Time): The late 1890s
Protagonist
Buck
Major Conflict
Buck’s struggle against his masters and his development from a tame dog into a wild beast
Rising Action
Buck’s battle with Spitz; Buck’s struggle with Hal, Charles, and Mercedes; Buck’s fulfillment of Thornton’s wager
Motifs
Fights to the death; visions