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

“Buck’s Transformation” “Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory” (George S. Patton). In this story Buck is triumphant when faced with the challenges of leadership and life in the wild. The Call Of The Wild, by Jack London, is about a sled dog making his way through the wilderness, after being kidnapped. In the Yukon Gold Rush sled dogs are in high demand to take hard trips through the cold surroundings. In the beginning of the book, Buck uses interdependence to learn the ways of the wild, but then survives individually. In the beginning of the book, Buck has just come from a civilized household and does not know the ways of the wilderness, or how to pull a sled. He learns from Billie how to sleep, and