Mastery In The Call Of The Wild

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 is about a dog named buck hat goes through many owners and then goes to the wild and joins a wolf pack. The central idea in The Call of The Wild is the way you treat animals can tell about you and your personality.

“ 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

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

For Buck, this occurred when he made his first kill. After he moved deeper into the rough terrain of the North, he was very surprised when his friend Curly was innocently murdered by the alpha dog, Spitz. This situation caught Buck off guard because he saw Spitz laugh afterwards and feel no regret or remorse for his actions. Although these actions seemed absurd to Buck at the time, he later began to show more of his primitive nature and need for survival. As a result, Buck untimely killed Spitz and felt satisfied with it.

Since Buck did that the team survived longer than they would’ve. In conclusion, Buck figured out how to become a great sled dog in those three

In The Call of The Wild, Buck is kidnapped and sold by a gambling obsessed man, and has to persevere as he's forced to be a sled dog. One of the examples of his perseverance is the beginning of his adventure. Buck is approached by the gardener Manuel, and as soon as Buck realizes he is up to no good he is kidnapped. He is then beaten by a club until he

“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.

He was taken away from his home and made to be new leader as his destiny. He was struggling to survive, he was losing weight and fighting for his meal as his team was fighting each other to the death. Knowing buck he had persevered and pushed past the toughness. He had to make some changes that were life defying and could change his whole outcome. Changing the whole outcome would have its benefits but in favor or the other choice.

Once Buck found a new home without any violence and he was around people who cared about him. This would make one a better person because it would make them realize that they do not have to have a bad

His ancestors are calling to him by howling, he debates on leaving his perfect master or answering the call of the wild. The theme of Struggle for mastery shows right away Buck learns that being a trained house dog will not work for being a sled dog in the Yukon. Almost right away when he arrives in the Yukon he learns that he needs to be his own master. Buck always been “king like” or the leader when he was with his first master Judge Miller “He must master or be mastered; while to show mercy was a weakness.” (London, 77)

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,

Durning the trip the man barly gave the team any good food if he gave any. So the team stared to strave and get weaker but as they got weaker the man got angyer because the were slowing down so me beated them with club till they went fast. Then after a couple of day of being hungry and tired finaly snap when he saw that spick had took hes bed and then they started to fight. They both keep fight because the rool of leader ship was on the line. Finally Buck killed Spitz a took leadership as the dog team an that is when buck real natural instinct took

“ He had a way of taking Buck's head roughly between his hands, and resting his own

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