Chapter 5: the toil of thrace and trail
Discussion Questions:
1.) Reread London'd first description of Hal and Charles. What do you think will happen to them based on this initial description? Hal is a hunter and he is young so he dose not know what he is doing. They will have a hard time on the tril. They are messy people.
2.) What was Mercedes' reaction when experienced men went though to lighten the load? What does this say about her and about her relationship with her husband and brother? She is being very mean. She is mad when they tell her to lighten the load She only thinks about her self she is very mean. There is no respect
3.) Compare Charles, and Mercedes to any other characters you've met in other books, movies, plays, television shows, or real life. What traits did Buck have that allowed him to adapt to the north that they lacked? Markus He is a very bad person like Hal. Buck is the leader he tell the other dog what and when to do it.
4.) Why do you think London included these three characters in the book? What do they represent? I think they added them because the story was getting not so fun they represent the problems in the story. The south
5.) Why did Buck refuse to rise and lead the team? What did he have that his masters lacked? He did not want to because there were lots of new dog and he was getting beaten. Howe was very weak. He knows that there will a problem and there was the ice braking.
Vocabulary:
Salient - a secrete “This belt was the most salient thing about him.”
Callow - not fun “It advertised his callowness—a callowness sheer and unutterable”
Chaffering -hereing thing “Buck heard the chaffering, saw the money pass between the man and the Government agent, and knew that the Scotch half-breed and the mail-train drivers were passing out of his life on the heels of Perrault and Francois and the others who had gone before”
Apprehensively -watching someone or something “Buck watched them apprehensively as they proceeded to take down the tent and load the sled.”
Averred - will not do someothing “She averred she would not go an inch, not for a dozen Charleses.”
Jaded - forgot not happy “Four times he had covered the distance between Salt Water and Dawson, and the knowledge that, jaded and tired, he was facing the same trail once more, made him bitter.”
Voracious - not welcome “The Outside dogs, whose digestions had not been trained by chronic famine to make the most of little, had voracious appetites.”
Cajole -sad not happy “And to cap it all, when Mercedes, with tears in her pretty eyes and a quaver in her throat, could not cajole him into giving the dogs still more, she stole from the fish-sacks and fed them slyly.”
Innocuously -sad faling going down “With the dogs falling, Mercedes weeping and riding, Hal swearing innocuously, and Charles's eyes wistfully watering, they staggered into John Thornton's camp at the mouth of White River”
Terse - to do something fast “He whittled and listened, gave monosyllabic replies, and, when it was asked, terse advice”
Inarticulate -to do something mean not to feel good “And then, suddenly, without warning, uttering a cry that was inarticulate and more like the cry of an animal, John Thornton sprang upon the man who wielded the club”
Activities: (choose one)
3.) Write a journal entry about a time you didn't listen to someone with more experience than you. What happened? What did you learn?
One time when my mom told me to clean up the mess I made. So I did not clean my mess up and I went out side and played some basketball. After that when I came back in the house the mess was cleaned up and my mom was very mad at me. I learned that I should do what my mom says to do.
1.) Reread London'd first description of Hal and Charles. What do you think will happen to them based on this initial description? Hal is a hunter and he is young so he dose not know what he is doing. They will have a hard time on the tril. They are messy people.
2.) What was Mercedes' reaction when experienced men went though to lighten the load? What does this say about her and about her relationship with her husband and brother? She is being very mean. She is mad when they tell her to lighten the load She only thinks about her self she is very mean. There is no respect
3.) Compare Charles, and Mercedes to any other characters you've met in other books, movies, plays, television shows, or real life. What traits did Buck have that allowed him to adapt to the north that they lacked? Markus He is a very bad person like Hal. Buck is the leader he tell the other dog what and when to do it.
4.) Why do you think London included these three characters in the book? What do they represent? I think they added them because the story was getting not so fun they represent the problems in the story. The south
5.) Why did Buck refuse to rise and lead the team? What did he have that his masters lacked? He did not want to because there were lots of new dog and he was getting beaten. Howe was very weak. He knows that there will a problem and there was the ice braking.
Vocabulary:
Salient - a secrete “This belt was the most salient thing about him.”
Callow - not fun “It advertised his callowness—a callowness sheer and unutterable”
Chaffering -hereing thing “Buck heard the chaffering, saw the money pass between the man and the Government agent, and knew that the Scotch half-breed and the mail-train drivers were passing out of his life on the heels of Perrault and Francois and the others who had gone before”
Apprehensively -watching someone or something “Buck watched them apprehensively as they proceeded to take down the tent and load the sled.”
Averred - will not do someothing “She averred she would not go an inch, not for a dozen Charleses.”
Jaded - forgot not happy “Four times he had covered the distance between Salt Water and Dawson, and the knowledge that, jaded and tired, he was facing the same trail once more, made him bitter.”
Voracious - not welcome “The Outside dogs, whose digestions had not been trained by chronic famine to make the most of little, had voracious appetites.”
Cajole -sad not happy “And to cap it all, when Mercedes, with tears in her pretty eyes and a quaver in her throat, could not cajole him into giving the dogs still more, she stole from the fish-sacks and fed them slyly.”
Innocuously -sad faling going down “With the dogs falling, Mercedes weeping and riding, Hal swearing innocuously, and Charles's eyes wistfully watering, they staggered into John Thornton's camp at the mouth of White River”
Terse - to do something fast “He whittled and listened, gave monosyllabic replies, and, when it was asked, terse advice”
Inarticulate -to do something mean not to feel good “And then, suddenly, without warning, uttering a cry that was inarticulate and more like the cry of an animal, John Thornton sprang upon the man who wielded the club”
Activities: (choose one)
3.) Write a journal entry about a time you didn't listen to someone with more experience than you. What happened? What did you learn?
One time when my mom told me to clean up the mess I made. So I did not clean my mess up and I went out side and played some basketball. After that when I came back in the house the mess was cleaned up and my mom was very mad at me. I learned that I should do what my mom says to do.