An Analysis Of Buck's Transformation In The Call Of The Wild, By Jack London

How has Buck transformed from a dignified guardian to a liberated master of the wild? In The Call of the Wild by Jack London, Buck lives the life of a pet until he gets traded off by the greed of humans. As a pet of the Judge, he was brainwashed to obey and only to obey. Things have changed when his ownership has been transferred another man whose wish goes as far as his greed. Buck learned the law of the club and fang and he never forgot the law as it was a greeting to the "reign of primitive law." Buck has gone through many phases throughout his metamorphosis to get to where he is today, a liberated master.
Shortly after Buck got introduced to a pack led by Francois and Perrault, he has created a hostile relationship with a dog named Spitz. From Spitzbergen, through the Artic, and across Canada and the Barrens, Spitz was a fighter well trained and roughened by the law of the club as he has lived his entire life under this dictatorship. The hostile relationship between Spitz and Buck only grew and developed into a raging hatred for one another. The relationship has become so unbearable and toxic that soon, there had to
The kind of patience that lives within the real warriors of the wild. In the fight with Buck and Spitz, Spitz held the upper hand in the beginning of his end by using his patience and experience. How has Buck used the patience he has gained? He uses that patience on attacking an enormous moose and Buck was patient for the moose to accept the moment of its death. Patience is a virtue that all predators require in order to rise up in the pyramid. "There is a patience of the wild—dogged, tireless, persistent as life itself—that holds motionless for endless hours the spider in its web, the snake in its coils, the panther in its ambuscade; this patience belongs peculiarly to life when it hunts its living food; and it belonged to Buck as he clung to the flank of the herd..." (Page