Call Of The Wild: Buck's Into The Wild

One source states, "Buck fights against and then joins a wolf pack and creates a superior strain of animal by mating with a wolf. The novel ends as Buck becomes totally absorbed into the natural world" (Moss). Buck is fully absorbed in the wild and is leading the pack of wolves, showing that it was the perfect match and he didn’t need to return to civilization. He had created a great life of his own. Another quote describes ideally what happened after he entered the wild and was fully embraced in it,

Buck was kidnapped from Judge Miller’s place and brought into an environment where he had to rely on his instincts. Soon enough he learned to live by the law of club and fang where he must be constantly alert and no one was to be trusted. When Buck was given to Francois and Perrault they allowed for his primitive instincts to be shown. While Buck was under their care his development or retrogression was rapid. “They quickened the old life within him, and the old tricks which they had stamped into the heredity of the breed were his tricks. They came to him without effort or discovery as though they had been his always” (25). Buck became enact with his primitive life and his transformation was apparent. Once Buck discovered this nature it did not leave him even when he met John Thornton. “As closely akin to the visions of the hairy man was the call still sounding in the depths of the forest. It filled him with great unrest and strange desires” (69). The call sometimes appeared in Buck’s dreams of a hairy man sleeping by the fire. The man represented him and just like Buck, the man was restless and aware of any sounds or awakenings. The call remained in the back of his mind while he struggled to stay civilized.

The virtues of humanity are what define us as a species. Animals can also possess these virtues of selfish, or selfless acts. Call of the Wild perfectly illustrates this through the story as Buck learns to adjust to many owners. The book illustrates humans having virtues of humanity by starting with Judge Miller, a kind, caring pet owner who lets Buck roam free on their “Sun kissed Santa Clara Valley Ranch.”

While reading The Call of the Wild, I noticed that Buck’s experience with all of his handlers and caregivers impacted him by being kind to others. Buck was willing and open to being kind and helping humans as well as dogs. Buck was able to help by either showing emotions or just by helping them in a physical way.

Learning to take charge, stand up for yourself is something that makes you worth listening to and understanding. When Buck is hit with the club he learns not to trust humans, no mercy, and the law of the club. After so buck got his new owner, his muscles became hard as iron, his sight and scent became remarkably keen, and the coolest, he learns how to bite ice out of his paws when snow gets

Buck is a mix breed between a St. Bernard and a shepherd. He lives on the wealthy estate of Judge Miller during the late 1890's. Buck is quickly sold into sled dogging and is sent to the Klondike region of Alaska. And there he was shaped into a sled dog and being low on food and rest

The struggle for survival is a major point throughout Buck’s journey. From the very beginning Buck learns to lose his morals to survive. He learns to steal food without getting caught and how to kill other dogs. He learns to appease the dogs drivers as well as other dogs by following “The Law of Club and Fang”. He learns how to endure the brutal environment. However Buck doesn't just want to just survive the Northland, he wants to conquer it.

The most obvious and important change in Buck’s life is when he is stolen from his house. In a way, when Buck is captured, he starts an entirely new life. His new life living wild is one that is polar opposite to his past life. “Chapter I, ‘Into the Primitive,’ describes the great dog’s kidnapping from Judge Miller’s pastoral ranch and his subsequent endurance of the first rites of his initiation—the beginning of the transformation that ultimately carries him deep into Nature’s heart of darkness” (Labor 119). Buck goes from a beautiful, massive house where he lived an entertaining life with his first family to surviving in the cold, vast wilderness while knowing absolutely no one. While living on the beautiful property, he was really close

Buck, a dog from california, is stolen away to the cold and unforgiving wilds of the Klondike. Buck moves from owner to owner throughout the book as he serves as a sled dog shuttling people from place to place. Buck learns the lessons of growing up and being able to take charge of one’s destiny. Cummulating in him joining up with a wolfpack and finally answering the call of the wild.

First, Buck was a domesticated dog living at a ranch in the Santa Clara Valley of California. Stolen from his home and sold into service as a sled dog in Alaska, he reverts to a wild state. Buck is forced to fight in order to dominate other dogs in a harsh climate. Eventually he sheds the layer of civilization, relying on primordial instincts and learned experience to emerge as a leader in the wild.

“He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survived. (London 123)” In Call of the Wild by Jack London, Buck, a mixed St.Bernard and Scotch Shepard dog, along with other sled dogs take a journey to the Yukon. Buck encounters a hostile environment and has to change immediately to survive. Bucks changes in an instance, going from a perfect life to an arduous way of life.

At the end of the book, Buck fulfills his quest by becoming wild. First, Buck hunts wild animals. For example, Buck kills deer, wolverines, and a moose. Since Buck kills wild game, he learned how to provide for himself. Second, Buck kills yeehat Indians for instance rips throats out, chases them down. Since Buck kills humans, last Buck joins a wild wolf pack to be free and a leader. For example he fights his way into a pack, becomes leader. Since Buck has become the ghost dog. In conclusion Buck fulfills his quest by becoming a wild animal that kills for its meat and protection in a

In the final chapter of The Call of the Wild, Buck goes on one last trip with Thornton towards north for the gold mine. Along the way they make several camps and on one of those nights Buck dreams about the hairy man again. On another night he travels through the woods by himself and meets a wolf who he befriends. He returns back to camp and doesn’t leave until he gives in to his desire. Sometime later near a creek he encounters a herd of Meese and he ends up killing the leader bull. When he returns to camp, however, he finds his master dead at the hands of Yeehats who he chases away with rage. The next night, a pack of wolves comes by and he fights some of them until he recognizes his old friend. In the end, Buck finds a new family he runs

They ship him to Seattle, where he is sold to a pair of French-Canadian men. They purchase him and several others dogs throughout their time of owning Buck. Buck and some of the dogs don't get along, sometimes causing fights between them. Buck is victorious in these fights and becomes the team leader. The conditions are also poor; it is very cold and treacherous. The dogs are sold again to a Scottish man. They carry large loads of things that were mined, for instance, gold. They also carry items such as, tents, wood, water, etc. that are There are more fights and some of the dogs are very worn out and in poor health. They are then sold to Hal, Mercedes, and Charles who don't know what they are doing and beat the dogs for being tired (keep in mind how long these dogs have traveled; they are weak and don't have much energy). A man named John Thornton rescues Buck from being beaten and warned against crossing the frozen lake. The owners don't listen and they and all the dogs except Buck go to cross the lake, but the ice cracks and all that crossed the river fell to their death. John takes Buck with him and nurses the dog back to health. They travel, and along the way, Buck pays back John’s kindness by saving him from drowning in a river and by killing a man that threatens to harm John. One day he comes to find that the Yeehat Indians have killed everyone at the campsite, including John. Buck kills several Indians, driving the rest away. After killing the Indians, Buck has no connection to civilization and decides to go join the wild

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