Bucky: The Power Of Words

     After all that he had been through, one would hardly suppose that Buck could love a person. However, love he can and love he does. He loves John almost more than is possible; once, as a joke, John commanded Buck to “Jump!” over a cliff. A second later, he was struggling with Buck at the very edge of the precipice. They could happily live together for the rest of their lives...if it weren’t for “the call”.

* Buck –a proud and powerful dog, half St Bernard and half shepherd dog, who begins life on a comfortable Californian estate as a family pet, yet soon changes when he is stolen and sold to work as a sled dog in the frozen North.

Many characters in Morrison’s book are given names that describe them somehow throughout the story. Names in the book or either historically based or given in regards to the character’s personality or events that happened throughout the book. As the story goes on, character either let names define them or escape them.

Today I will be telling you the history and meaning of my name Calvin Emmett Alexander. I will also be informing you of the family value of my name. There are so many interesting meanings of my name. There are also so many famous people who have carried all three of my names. The most famous person came from my surname name. I think you will be as interested as I am when you hear the stories of my names.

In The Call of The Wild, Buck is kidnapped and sold by a gambling obsessed man, and has to persevere as he's forced to be a sled dog. One of the examples of his perseverance is the beginning of his adventure. Buck is approached by the gardener Manuel, and as soon as Buck realizes he is up to no good he is kidnapped. He is then beaten by a club until he

… I had forgot what my name was. So I laid there about an hour trying to think, and when Buck waked up I says:

I enjoyed the Craft talk with Kerry Howley on the role of the narrator as a character in the story. It was particularly interesting to focus on the narrator and to actually get the chance to develop the narrator as a character. She mentioned that often the narrator is the character that gets the least amount of attention from the author, which seems bizarre. The narrator is the character with which the entire narrative arc is seen. Intuitively you would think that this character would receive the most attention from the author. The characteristics of the narrator can influence every detail of the story.

In 2017, John Koenig completed a seven year project in which he wrote a book called The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows (Koenig)1. In writing this book, Koenig’s goal was to help people communicate feelings and emotions through words that never before existed (Koenig)2 . Without words, it would be difficult to understand others at all. While it is easy to see someone’s physical pain, without words, it would be hard to truly understand what they are feeling. Koenig’s book helps to further our understanding of each other with words that describe things we all feel but find hard to put into words.

The boy whose name is Arnie is now older, graduated from college, working, and happily married with two children. On the other hand, Bucky continues to blame himself and becomes bitter with no hope. Because he keeps blaming himself for what has happened, he has excluded himself from the world. Bucky would not date, show anyone his arm or legs. He did not even pay a visit to the place he loved most-

Another such loaded name is Jack D. Ripper, which is the name of the US Air Force's Strategic Air Command's Commanding Officer. The name is symbolic of an infamous English serial killer. By placing this name with a senior commander in the US Military, Kubrick is attempting to show the bloodlust that he perceived the US Military's higher levels to have during that time towards the USSR. Yet another suggestive name is the name of another General in the US Military. This symbolism is slightly more subtle, because "buck" signifies a male animal, and turgid is a word meaning swollen. This name shows Kubrick's suggestion that the US Military had an inflated sense of self-worth during this era. These names serve to both show the director's opinions of individuals and systems of the time period, but also makes the connection in the viewer's mind from the male obsession with sex to the male obsession with war.

You admired Bucky as he sat on corner writing on a notebook. It had become a bad habit now, to notice everything the super soldier did. You moved closer to Steve to ask him about the content of the notebooks and you couldn't help but feel a bit sad after he explained how Bucky would write everything he could remember. You imagined the awful collection of stories Bucky must have written on those pages. You left the tower still thinking about those notebooks, especially how it must be torture to read those memories. You stopped at a small store that was on the way to your apartment and bought some stationary. Pen in hand, you sat on your kitchen table and wrote “TO BUCKY” on the first blank piece of paper. Maybe it was time to give the ex-assassin

Cutline: –Ralph Huskey describes himself as an “old country boy.” In Tennessee, he spends his days, on and off the clock, delighting in simple pleasures.

He was the smart one, and unlike his brother, Lex wasn’t as muscular. Bucky used to bully him but Lex always found away to get back at him. People thought of him as the “brains of the operation”. He didn’t speak much, because he would always be planning his next move. By rule, Bucky should be next in line to take their father’s position as head captain, but he chose Lex. He gave Lex the map to the treasure, in hope that with his intellectual abilities, he would find the treasure. Bucky was furious at his decision. With frustration and anger, he killed his father so he would have to become the next captain, but Lex already had possession of the map. Buckey decided to start his own crew and go after what is rightfully his, the map to the treasure. They haven’t had many encounters because Lex is too smart to leave any trace of his crew or where they have been. The only times they did encounter each other was because Bucky would send out small squadrons , but even that failed because there was so few of them. Buckey then thought of ways to catch up with him without losing any crew members, and it was at that moment he knew, he may have a

Buck was a dog who became part of a sled dog team and was driven to become the leader of the team. Buck would not let anything

Finally, Steve’s last story was about death. At this point I was thinking he had gone through enough and finally was going to gain the happiness he deserved. Unfortunately I was wrong. He had been diagnosed with cancer. He physically saw that in his scan there was a tumor. He went through everything you have to go to when you get diagnosed. He had planned to tell his children, prepare his loved ones, and set everything out for his family. After all he had gone through to live a happy life, there was the brick he was talking about. Eventually Steve had a miracle. The cancer ended up being cured.