Comparing The Characters In Call Of The Wild, By Jack London

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.

“ From far away drifted a faint, sharp yelp, followed by a chorus of a similar sharp yelps (London 105).” In the book, Call of the Wild by Jack London the main character Buck faces a retrogression. Buck goes from being king like to a wild rebellious dog. Buck goes through this change because men found gold. The men needed dogs like Buck. Buck was half saint Bernard and half scotch-shephard, so he was a gigantic dog and had a thick coat to survive in harsh weather like in the Klondike. So Buck is sold and beat he learns to obey the law of club and fang to be formed into a sled dog, but ends up forming a bond with a man his name was John Thornton . Thornton died and Buck answers the call and runs in the wild becoming alpha of the wolf pack. As Buck was

In The Call of the Wild, Jack London utilizes the uprising of a dog’s primitive nature to communicate the influence of ancestry present within all beings. When Buck is ripped out of domestication, he immediately channels his hidden defensive qualities whenever a sense of danger is present. He discovers traits within himself that he was unaware to have possessed, sometimes even becoming shocked by his own reactions. The instincts of Buck’s ancestors awaken once he arrives in the Yukon Territory which allows him to fend for himself and survive while undergoing the dangerous conditions of the climate. Buck not only fits the criteria necessary to survive, but he goes above and beyond and finds himself successful and thriving as the leader of the

“Buck stood and looked on, the successful primordial beast who had made his kill and found it good” (London, 43). The novel The Call of the Wild by Jack London starts with a dog named Buck that lives at an estate in California. However, Buck got stolen and shipped to the Yukon, during the gold rush, where he was sold to multiple different owners. In order to survive, he has to fight and steal food, and obey his owners to do whatever they say. Buck wants to be the master of the pack no matter who is in it, and who owns him.

When Buck gets to the Yukon he does not know how to act. All of the other dogs know how to fight and hold their own. Buck however always lived like a king and was never around other dogs. He had to learn how to fight. He learned vicariously and watched other dogs. “He had never seen dogs fight as these wolfish creatures fought, and his first experience taught him an unforgettable lesson” (London 16). This shows that Buck learned he needed to be smart in a fight. This shows his primitive characteristics coming out because of the way he fights. He knew that he would encounter a fight sooner or later

In The Call of the Wild, Buck, once a domesticated dog, had to turn savage so that he could survive in the Klondike. Because of this, however, the call from the wild became incredibly strong, and so his primitive, savage side began to overpower his civilized side. Additionally, it was inevitable for Buck to join the wild, for it was his fate. All in all, The Call of the Wild depicts the tension between civilization and nature, showing how nature was the ultimate winner not only when it comes to dogs, but humans as well because we all have a wild side within

Buck’s owner had died and he visited the sight of his death before living on as a wolf, “but every year he returns to the place Thornton died, to mourn his master before returning to his life in the wild”. Everyone has lost someone in their lives. It’s just a part of life, just how Buck treats it like a real human being, but then goes back to his life as a wolf. Buck also overcomes the adversity of the abusive owners. Buck tries to fight the owners off but gets suffocated,”Then the rope tightened mercilessly, while Buck struggled in a fury, his tongue lolling out of his mouth”. Buck is overcoming the harsh and abusive conditions of these owners. We go through times in our lives that are tough like Buck. Some say that the abusive manner towards the dogs is too much. But, it shows how much Buck has changed through the book, how he has become stronger, and how we treat dogs

In the Call of The Wild a dog named Buck goes through a few owners before joining a wolf pack. The theme in The Call of The Wild is the way you treat animals is the way they will react to you because Buck’s owners treated him differently therefore he responded to them differently.

In the novel Call of the Wild, Buck is a domesticated dog at Judge Miller's house in Santa Clara Valley, California. Buck lived in a large spacious grounds filled with orchards and gardens. Buck was Judges Miller's companion, he took his daughters on walks and hunts with his son’s, he considered himself to be superior than the other dogs living at the house. He was a large built dog, a mix of St. Bernard and Scotch Shepherd, and weighs 140 pounds. During this time period, gold has been discovered in the Yukon and Alaska, there has been big demands for strong built dogs to pull sleds up to the arctic. Manuel, a gardener at Judge Miller's estate has gambling issues and is in need for money, and with the demand for sled dogs for the arctic, he manages to kidnap Buck and sell him to a saloon-keeper and is transported to the north on train. What Buck does not know is what lies ahead of him in this journey, it's the beginning of Buck's survival.

In the novel “Call of the Wild” by Jack London, Buck is the main character. Buck is a strong half St. Bernard and half sheepdog. He was living a comfortable life with his owner Judge Miller in Santa Clara Valley, California but sadly this all came to an end when one of the Judge's servants steals Buck and sells him.  Because gold was discovered in the north large dogs like Buck have become suddenly very valuable and are useful to pull heavy sleds. After traveling on boat and train for many days, Buck discovers that he is in the North.  Buck does not adapt easily to the situation but eventually conforms and learns how to pull a dog sled, how to burrow into a hole in the snow, how to survive hunger pains, and how to rely on his native intelligence

However, In the story The Call of the Wild, Buck was clearly up to the task, as he became the master of the wild at the end of the novel. Let’s talk about Buck’s first feeling of true mastery. When Buck first arrived at the Klondike, he immediately became enemies with Spitz, another sled dog. At some point, Buck killed Spitz. “Buck stood and looked on, the successful champion, the dominant primordial beast who had made his kill and found it good” (London 43).

The most important event in Buck’s transformation from the Santa Clara domestication to the vicious primordial beast is the experience of killing Spitz. Well before Buck slaughters Spitz, “[...] not only did he not pick fights, but he avoided them whenever possible” (London 43). Buck was not prone to fighting and nowhere near killing. As Buck and Spitz's relationship became worse and worse, Buck’s perception of fighting begins to change, and he is more willing to involve himself in a brawl. He and Spitz eventually fall into many squabbles. The last one they partake in ends in the death of Spitz. Once Spitz was lifeless, “Buck stood and looked on, the successful champion, the […] beast who had made his kill and found it good.”(London

For the yukon or the wild. In  the adventure story The call of the wild by jack london he first part of the story buck was with the mayor. Then the landscaper took Buck and sold him to the man in the red sweater. Next he was sold to the yukon and have to be very strong. n the Call of the Wild  Buck  Struggle for mastery. Another reason for the struggle for mastery was the fight between spitz and buck to see which one was strong to be the leader.  Buck had to prove that he was fit to win over the leader of the group so he had to do what was right to become the beast and not care if he has enemy.“Buck strove to sink his teeth in the neck of the big white dog wherever his fangs struck for the softer flesh.Buck

Call of the Wild is a novella written by Jack London that is ironic about life and the way we look at it. We look at life as humans and other things are just living in our world, that nothing else has a say in the world because we do not speak the same languages. Example of this is how we “own” dogs, cats, horses, etc; we do not “own” them, they are their own being with goals of their own. We may not be able to understand what they are saying or what they are thinking, but as London explains throughout his novella, one dog in particular has such high aspirations for himself that he will not quit for anything and his name is Buck. Never giving up on what you want in your life is the real message in this story that is being portrayed through the life of Buck.

On the three stories and the three characters had to undertake a mission because all three of them had to go on one.