Call Of The Wild: Perseverance Through Physical Pain

The Call of the Wild, on the surface, is a story about Buck, a four- year old dog that is part Shepherd and part St. Bernard. More importantly, it is a naturalistic tale about the survival of the fittest in nature. Throughout the novel, Buck proves that he is fit and can endure the law of the club, the law of the fang, and the laws of nature.

Moving to a new place and starting something new in life can take perseverance to get used to and adjust. In the story of The Call of the Wild, Buck the dog is kidnapped and sold into a new life where he has to adapt and learn lessons through difficult situations. In contrast to Buck, my mother had to raise her young daughter through poverty and school which took perseverance. While my mother’s challenges weren’t as life threatening or severe, she moved to a new place and had to adapt to her new schooling with dealing with the struggle of raising a child. Like my mother, Buck was put into a new area and new job that he had to adapt to, while dealing with the extra problems such as fighting with dogs and getting new owners. Overall, Buck and my mother both had to persevere through tough times, whether it was getting a degree and taking care of a kid, or

Beaten, neglected, and loved Buck dealt with all those things. In the story ‘’ The Call of the Wild ‘’, the central theme is how one treats animals can reflect on what kind of person they are.

Buck lost everything that he wants and everything that he loves. “The last tie was broken. Man and the claims of man no longer bound him.”(23). The quote explains he was free from the chains of man and love. The last of the domestic animal was gone and only there was the fierce wolf. Then came the blood lusting to kill whoever had murdered John Thornton, his handler and his lover. John Thornton had meant everything to him, Thornton was the reason he came back from the forest each time. He felt the grief of losing his loved one who he could not live without. The original Buck was gone he was replaced by the mighty wolf, the alpha of a wolf

Buck in the book “The Call of the Wild”, goes through many obstacles where he faced getting killed. He was just an ordinary house dog, but was kidnapped by his family’s gambling-addicted gardener. He later is beaten with a bat until he obeys and

Buck was forced to persevere often in Call Of The Wild. In the book Call Of The Wild, Buck is torn from society and his everyday life, but he still finds a way to overcome the adversity and

In the beginning of the book, Buck must learn to adapt to life in the wild. First, Buck learns how to adapt to no Longer being a King, but a slave instead. For example, the man in the red sweater beats Buck with a club so that Buck will obey him like a slave, including eating out of his hands that just beat him. Since Buck survives the clubbing by not attacking the man, he has learned to adapt to the “Law of the Club.” Second Buck learns how to adapt in the snow. For instance, Buck becomes a great sled dog and leads the team. Since Buck is a great sled the people need him. So they help Buck survive. Last Buck learns how to adapt by being pretty much king, For example he went from being beaten and not loved to being leader and loved and important.

In The Call of the Wild, Buck had to move from his old home, into a new home. The new place did not have nice people, these people beat Buck until Buck could no longer stand up. This did not stop Buck from standing up for what was right, so what he did was left. In chapter 1 of The Call of the Wild, London states, “He was beaten (he knew that); but he was not broken. He saw, once for all, that he stood no chance against the man with the club.

In the book The Call of The Wild, after Buck gets taken he has to learn how to become a durable and courageous sled dog to satisfy his owners. As we saw in the book,

Every day Buck has another obstacle to face in order to stay alive. In The Call of The Wild, Jack London uses the character, Buck, to illustrate the theme of survival. Buck was forced to do something he knew nothing about, being a sled dog. Shortly after he was taken from his home he was bought and forced to be a sled dog, trying to learn from the other dogs in the team. He eventually gets the hang of it and as his strength increases he becomes one of the best on the team.

A major theme in the call of “The Call of the Wild” is that life for buck is a quest to find one's true identity or destiny which is what buck does throughout the entire story. At the beginning of jack London’s “The Call of the Wild”, buck has to try and survive the wild and also has to try to stay safe. First, Buck has to learn the law of the club to stay alive. Buck has to go two days and nights without eating or drinking while being transported north, foreshadowing his toughness.

In the book Call of the Wild, the protagonist Buck is a big dog half St. Bernard and half German Shepard. He lives in the home of judge miller and his kids but Buck is the master, he has the lay of the land. The day that Manuel, the gardener, took Buck to then sell him was when bucks life started to take a turn for the worst. He got tortured by many different men, he was starved and water deprived but over all he was a tough dog he could handle it. We know already that if someone tries to hurt him he will then try to fight back and a big dog like him he will be able to protect himself. Unless one of the tormentors uses a club to keep buck from pouncing. Over all buck will just use all his power to protect himself and not do anything to put

The movie and the book version of “Call of the Wild” are different. In the movie it starts out with people talking. In the book it explains where Buck lived before he was taken from his home in the beginning. Also in the movie it has John Thornton in the beginning. But the book version has him only toward the middle and end. The movie has John Thornton try to bid Buck off at the auction, but someone took him. The book does not even mention him. One more very important difference is when Buck is getting beat

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

When Buck first moves to the arctic he is not strong so he almost gets killed multiple times. When he is sled dog and gets pushed around by Hal and Charles, he ends up very close to death. "Both men were manifestly out of place, and why such as they should adventure the North is part of the mystery of