Buck The Wild

In the novel, The Call of the Wild, by Jack London the author demonstrates how a dog can go from being civilized to becoming part of the wild. Buck (a dog) who is a st. bernard gets his largeness from his father and his intelligence from his mother. He is the main character the author uses to show how his behavioral changes based on how the owners treat him and his surroundings. The author uses Buck because he goes to many different challenges throughout the book and has different owners so the opinions are not biased. The author focuses on all aspects of the different people Buck is with This gives you a view on not only one character but all of the characters Buck was a very calm dog when he was with his his first owner. When Buck got
This trio treated Buck very badly and cruely. They didn't care if they hurt him or not. They only wanted the dogs for their own use so they would be able to get to the gold rush faster. They ended up putting Buck in a lot of danger and took him and the other dogs over a lake that wasn't frozen and had many danger sounds around it. They starve the dogs and make them work long hours. "He never had enough, and suffered from perpetual hunger pangs. Yet the other dogs, because they weighed less and were born to the life, received only a pound only of the fish and managed to keep in good condition." Chapter 2, pg. 28. "His muscles had wasted away to knotty strings, and the flesh pads had disappeared, so that each rib and every bone in his frame were outlined cleanly through the loose hide that was wrinkled in folds of emptiness. It was heartbreaking, only Buck's heart was unbreakable. The man in the red sweater had proved that." Chapter 5, pg. 83. They beat them when they wanted to rest and the only reason Buck listened to them was because he was afraid of getting beat. The only thing Buck is worried about is surviving. Buck almost falls through a frozen lake on one of their journies and this is where the last character comes into the
He saved him from falling into the frozen lake and from Hals cruelness so right there Buck already liked him. Buck was also worried that John Thornton was going to leave him like the other good people did. John Thornton was an “ideal master” and had a relationship that most people wanted with their dogs. Buck did anything and everything he said to do. In chapter 5 John Thornton tells Buck jokingly to go jump off a cliff and Buck goes to do it until John Thornton has to hold him back. That's how much Buck loves him. He cared for him very much and very loyal too Thornton almost as much as he did for his first master Judge Miller. Thornton always made sure that Buck had what he needed and always too care of him also as if it was his own child like Judge Miller did. They took care of each other and protected each other with their lives. Because of their relationship it kept Buck from going back to his wild ways from when he was with his “bad” masters. John Thornton ends up getting killed by the Yeehats and after that Buck got very upset and he ends up ripping the throats of many Yeehats without warning. He decides to go back to his wild ways and joins a pack of wolves since he didn’t want to be with anyone else and become a dog of the wild."The blood-longing became stronger than ever before. He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly