Character Analysis: The Call Of The Wild

Most of the other dogs stay away from Buck because of his size and strength, but Spitz becomes his constant enemy, from whom he learns an important lesson. Spitz fights with Curly, one of the dogs that is friendly to Buck. Buck watches as all the other dogs attack and kill Curly once he is down. Buck is determined he will never be put in the same position. He will fight to the death if necessary.

Buck is sold and put on a sled team. He learns to dig a hole in the snow to stay warm. He has a fierce rivalry with the lead dog Spitz. Spitz then kills one of Buck’s best friends Curly by ripping Curly’s face up. Buck ends up having multiple fights with Spitz. One of which where Spitz takes Buck sleeping hole and tries to

Can you identify an experience that changed your vision and your way of thinking? Jason, the main character in The Thing in the Woods, begins his adventure as young man with around thirteen or fourteen years old. He lives the same experience his father lived when he was a little older than him, and he learns something he will never forget. The Thing in the Woods, by Steve Brezenoff, is a horror story, published by Stone Arch Books in 2008, about a kid named Jason, who decided to camp overnight since he and his dad had a car trouble. In this book, the author, by using suspense, reveals a funny story that will make you scared and surprised at the flip of every page.

In the beginning of the book buck faces kill or be killed situations. First, Buck is trying to take Alpha Dog with spitz. For example, When Buck first goes to Alaska with Francois and encounters Dave and Spitz. Since, Buck fights Spitz to the death for alpha dog and wins that shows that Buck faces kill or be killed situations. Second, Buck has to learn how to pull a dog sled. For instance, When he gets to Alaska and see’s how good the dog sled team is and he’s going to have to step up his game to compete with the other dogs. Since, Buck has to stay on the same level as the other dogs or he’ll get kicked off the team and most likely get killed. Last, Buck Scenes have to change or he's going to get cut from the team. For example, when he first gets and see’s the team's skills and what they can do . Since, he see’s how good the team is and he knows he his whole outlook needs to change.(Conclusion)

Buck was determined to kill Spitz. While pursuing that mission, though, he not only risked his life, but the teamwork of the other dogs. “It was to the death,” (London 31). This text shows how Buck risked his life because the fight between him and Spitz was “to the death”. “With the covert mutiny of Buck, a general insubordination sprang up and increased,” (London 28). This text shows how Buck risked his teamwork with the other dogs because Spitz and him were always fighting.

We are all born into this world, never knowing what life has in store for us. It’s a journey that we are all not accustomed to, some of us grasp onto life and use its full potential, as others take the high road and use life as a chance of self exploration. The novel, Into the Wild, portrays a college graduate and successful homebody, Jonathan McCandless, taking a life’s journey that not even his parents expected. This character analysis will showcase how even in life, when one was given everything, we all have a choice to make our own path in life. The character analysis will also shine light on McCandless psyche, home life and the psychological theory to the why, behind his self exploration.

The year was 1880-1900 was when everything was normal and her family was save from all the tragic that they were going to be faced with years later. Her family was one of the richest Jews in Germany and also the smartest people in Germany but no even them could have seen what was about to happened coming. In 1930 was the year it all changed, it was the year that Adolf Hitler was put into power. Years later after he was put into power he blamed all the Jews for Germany's problems and in result many Jews lost there job, businesses, savings and homes. People that were already in trouble they were in more trouble but no matter how rich or poor you were, if you were a Jew you were all treated as unwelcome outsiders.

In the biography Into the Wild written by Jon Krakauer, Chris McCandless makes the decision to try and live in the wilderness. With little food, no communication with the outside world, and dangers around every corner McCandless decides to try and survive. Possible character traits that McCandless had that caused him to make this decision are: thrill-seeker, overconfident, or he was just inspired and wanted to live poor instead of wealthy.

More characters of this story would be Spitz, the dog-sled leader that didn’t like Buck and had been killed by buck after trying to kill him. Another character would be Curly, a dog who took a liking to Buck ,but in the end died to some mysterious odds. Some themes associated with the story are Primitivity, Knowledge and Wisdom, Suffering, and Perseverance. (Shmoop Editorial Team)

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,

Right when Buck is added to their sled team, he grows afraid of him because he might take his position someday, even though Buck is still somewhat weak during his first days. Buck is quite content with his current position on the sled team, but as Spitz continually bullies him and gets on his nerves, Buck finally takes action and murders Spitz on that fateful day. Because Spitz fears Buck so much, that fear eventually comes true to mock him. If he hadn't feared Buck so much, Buck would not have cold-bloodedly killed him, because then, Buck still had mercy. As Buck kills Spitz, he inherits some of Spitz's straits and his position as the lead dog in the sled team.

The film Beasts of the Southern Wild, directed by Behn Zeitlin, is set in Montegut, Louisiana, known by the residents as the bathtub, and follows a young girl named Hushpuppy as her home is flooded. She lives with her father, Wink, and her many, many animals. The bathtub is separated from the rest of the world by a levee built to restrain water from entering the mainland. Both Wink and Hushpuppy are incredibly happy with their lives, though Wink is slowly deteriorating from an unknown illness. However, when a storm falls upon their home, its destruction changes everything. Many of the residents of the bathtub evacuated before the storm; only Wink, Hushpuppy, and a few other families decided to stay and tough out the storm. Soon after it ends, Wink’s health begins to decline rapidly. Even though Hushpuppy is scared for her father, she continues working hard, striving to save her home from destruction. In her head, Hushpuppy animates aurochs, mythical creatures, as a way to deal with her father's upcoming death, suggesting that people’s natural instinct is to resist change through illusion. Throughout the movie Hushpuppy's emotions are represented through the aurochs’ journey toward her home. As the aurochs travel closer and closer, she becomes closer to accepting her father's death. The images shown of where the aurochs are, how they move, and where they are traveling to, all help to show Hushpuppy’s different methods of coping with Wink’s death.

In the beginning of the book, Buck was living in California when he gets stolen and becomes a sled dog. Being a sled dog wasn't easy for Buck because he had to carry a very heavy sled in icy mountains for miles and miles. When he was first starting to become a sled dog he didn't know what to do but after a while he learned from the other dogs around him. Buck also started having strange dreams about the ancient days of dogs and men. Buck was the property of Francois and Perrault, to mail carriers working for the Canadian government. Buck recovered the instincts of his wild ancestors, he learns to fight, scavenge for food, and sleeping under the snow at night. He then makes an enemy with Spitz, the lead dog in the team. Buck wanted to fight Spitz because Buck wanted to be the leader.

The environment a person lives in has an effect on them that shapes their character. People learn from the situations and others around them. This influence on character affected Buck, the main character in Jack London’s Call of the Wild. Within Buck’s time under the ownership of man, his experience with Perrault and Francois; Charles, Hal, and Mercedes; and Jack Thornton; had shaped him into the current dog he became.

Buck, a four year old st. Bernard, was living a calm, happy life with his owner Judge Miller. Living on a big house in Santa Clara Valley with the Judges' kids and dogs, everything seems to be going alright-- until Buck was kidnapped and taken ton a train to be a sled dog. He soon gets negotiated to Perrault and Francois, the French Canadian dog sledders for $250. He soon had to make an impact and earn