Call Of The Wild Themes

He began again to daze off staring at the fire and imagining the hairy man crouched down in the summer sun. The Call of the Wild written by Jack London is an adventure book that follows the life of a once tamed dog known as Buck to a dog that has retrogressed to a more primitive state during the Yukon Gold Rush. Buck who eventually answered the call of the wild had to go through many difficulties to get there.The theme power of the primitive is reinforced by the retrogression of a dog despite the love of mankind.

In Jack London’s classic novel The Call of the Wild, the main character, a dog by the name of Buck, is thrown into the harsh environment of the Klondike and is forced to change, so the theme of this novel is adapt or die. Buck adapts to people, other animals, and his new environment in order to survive. Buck undergoes physical, social, and behavioral adaptations in order to survive. First and foremost, Buck undergoes extreme physical changes as he apartes and adjusts to a very different lifestyle. Buck shows his physical when he is about to pull the 1000 pound sled and “He was in perfect condition, without an ounce of superfluous flesh, and the one hundred fifty pounds he weighed were so many pounds of grit and virility.

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.

     The Call of the Wild, by Jack London, is a classic piece of American literature. The novel follows the life of a dog named Buck as his world changes and in turn forces him to become an entirely new dog. Cruel circumstances require Buck to lose his carefree attitude and somewhat peaceful outlook on life. Love then enters his life and causes him to see life through new eyes. In the end, however, he must choose between the master he loves or the wildness he belongs in.

“The dark circle became a dot on the moonflooded snow as Spitz disappeared from view. Buck stood and looked on, the successful champion, the dominant primordial beast who had made his kill and found it good.” (London, 43) In the novel The Call of the Wild penned by Jack London, Buck, a Scotch Shepherd/St. Bernard mixed dog, is carried off into the Alaskan Klondike during the Yukon Gold Rush, and retrogresses from a civilized Southland pet into a ferocious, primitive beast of the North. Throughout Buck’s Northland adventure, he passes through the possession of several masters, each with varying degrees of mutual friendship or hatred. Finally, upon the death of his ideal and final master, John Thornton, he answers the call of the wild (A

Jack London shows that a previously civilized creature can become as wild as his ancestors. London shows that dogs and humans alike can do this. He shows this in many ways. One of those ways is by showing exquisite instincts, contrasting the inexperienced and questionable instincts of a more domesticated creature. London portrays this when Buck leads his team into John Thornton’s camp and his civilized masters beat him to rise and ride into the feeble ice, “Like his mates, he was barely able to get up, but, unlike them, he had made up his mind not to get up. He had a vague feeling of impending doom.” This shows that Buck, a formerly domesticated dog, has sharpened his instincts so much and has becoming so much closer to his ancestors’ way of

Into the wild by Sean Penn is a biography of Chris McCandless. Chris is an idealistic but arrogant man who believes that human relations are not needed for survival and that society has taken a wrong turn. therefore in order to find ‘truth ’he heads out into the wild donating all his savings to charity and leaving behind his family and identity. However he dies in Alaska because of eating a poisonous root but before dying he realises the error in his ideals and realises that “happiness is only real when shared” this is a major theme in the film but his realization is too late as he is unable to mend his mistakes. As Well as this theme the general theme of the film is human frailties and their negative which the director portrays through Chris

The story of “The Call of the Wild,” written by Jack London, is a tale of the tragedy and pain of a man, but in the perspective of a dog. The plot follows Buck, a Saint Bernard and Scotch-Shepherd mix, who is kidnapped from his home and forced to learn the ways of the wild in order to survive. Buck struggles throughout the novel to keep his aggressive nature down yet he questions whether or not this wildness in him is his only chance in a cruel world. The story of ‘The Call of the Wild’ holds many themes but one is the idea of structure and power in society. London believes that the only way to move up the social hierarchy is through survival.

In the beginning, Buck is confronted by life or deaths situations. First, Buck learns the Law of Fang. For example, Buck witnesses the sudden death of Curly after she loses a fight with a husky. Since he learns the Law of Fang, he now knows there is no fair play. Second, Buck will do whatever is needed to survive. For example, he steals food from Perrault. Since he is such a big dog, he needs a lot of food to live. Last, Buck is not afraid to get in a fight. For example, he and Spitz get in a fight because they hate each other. Since they got in a fight, Buck wins and the other dogs end up killing Spitz because of the Law of Fang. In conclusion, these are the reasons how Buck handles life and death situations.

The Call of the Wild by Jack London is a story about Buck, a dog who was a half St. Bernard and half sheepdog. He was living a comfortable life on a California estate when he was kidnapped and shipped to the Klondike region of Canada, due to the discovery of gold.

Buck had lost twenty-five pounds on this trip, and the rest of the dogs lost more pounds! In less than five months, the dogs traveled 2,500 miles. The dogs were beaten up, and had no energy left in them. Buck and some of the other dogs were bought by Hal, Charles, and Mercedes, who I do not like. In my opinion, Mercedes is the dumbest person in the book.

In The Call of the Wild, by Jack London, the protagonist, Buck, is a dog who has been kidnapped from his home in Santa Clara Valley in California and forced to join various dogsled teams being led across Alaska and Northern Canada. Over the course of the book, Buck undergoes a change from being a domesticated dog to a wild dog, learning how unforgiving and cruel the world is. After being wronged and experiencing many upsetting moments, Buck finds that his primitive instincts start to take over, dominating his civilized side and turning him into a feral dog. In the end, when his last bond with the human world is broken, Buck succumbs completely to the “call of the wild.”

After John Thornton dies and Buck’s only tie to humanity and civilization is severed, Buck proceeds to live out his days in a local wolf pack where he becomes the alpha. Here he becomes a legend to the locals and is forevermore known as the Ghost Dog because of ferocious actions presiding Thornton’s death. Throughout the novel, “The Call of the Wild” it is proven that adaptability is key to one’s survival in any harsh environment. Over the many years in Buck’s time after being kidnapped by Manuel, Buck demonstrated time and time again that being able to adapt to one’s surroundings is and essential to life. In the novel, it is conveyed through many different events and lessons that being able to become accustomed to a setting is key to

In the novel, The Call of the Wild, the author, Jack London, uses his writing to show many themes throughout the entire story. One of the biggest themes shown continuously across the book is that a domesticated creature can be drawn back to its primitive roots. London uses the protagonist, Buck, as the primary model for showing this theme as he was civilized at the start but eventually ends up primitive.

Jack London, in his book ‘The call of the wild’, portrays, that the strongest, smartest, and the one who is not shy of compromising their morals in the wilderness, will always prosper. In this novel, Buck, the protagonist, a Saint Bernard/ scotch shepherd mix, is taken from his home in California, and becomes a sled dog , and eventually the lead sled dog, in Alaska. Buck is constantly learning about life in the wild, about the law of club and fang, and how the man with the club is the top, and you do not fight that. He also learns that the strong survive well when he kills Spitz. In the book, Buck always ate slow and deliberately, but seeing another dog steal food, to get more, and being fed much less than he is used to, he adapts this practice, against his own morals, and steals food. Later in the book, London says that ‘buck was now wise in the way of the club’. This shows: In the call of the wild, buck learns that only the strong and smart survive in the wild, and that unfortunately, to survive, sometimes, moral integrity is compromised.