Jack London Changes

Everyone changes overtime weather its growing a couple inches over the summer or deciding you like this instead of that. But sometimes that change is dramatic it changes how you think, how you act. Buck happened to go through one of these drastic changes, but it changed him for the better and not worse at least that’s how he sees it. In the book “The call of the Wild” Jack London writes about Buck just a normal dog, and how the switch from living in a wealthy house in Santa Clara Valley, to a moving camp of sled dogs changed him over the course of a year. At first he was a regular dog who thought he was the center of attention. But that changed when the switch took place he was forced to train in the wild or he would either be killed by the
He was much more fortunate than other dogs. Buck was treated like a king, everything revolved around him or at least he thought it did. Although he’d never admit to being a pampered pet he really was with the amount of attention he got. For example, it states in the text, “but buck was neither house dog nor kennel dog. The whole realm was his. He plunged into the swimming tank or went hunting with the judge's sons; he escorted Mollie and Alice the judge's daughters on long twilight walks or early morning rambles; on wintry nights he lay at the judges feet before the roaring library fire.”(page 5) Furthermore Buck was a pompous dog he thought of himself as the very best, could never be replaced in his luxurious home, But life at judge millers was a privilege. For example, it states in the text, “Nevertheless one hundred and forty pounds, which was added the dignity that comes of good living and universal respect enabled him to carry himself in right royal fashion.”(page
Buck was sent away to a pack of huskies where he trained to be a sled dog. It changed him mentally and physically. Buck had grown muscles that he didn’t have before and instincts that now feel natural. But he started to become keen on the idea of being a sled dog and being in the wild. Judge miller would not recognize him and buck wouldn’t want him to. For example, it states in the text, “ his development (or retrogression) was rapid. His muscles became hard as iron and he grew callous to all ordinary pain he achieved an internal as well as an external economy.”(page 39) Additionally, Buck had a new way of thinking and doing. Something that would seem odd to the old buck was normal for the new. This new buck knew how to survive in the wild, meanwhile the old buck knew only how to play. For example it states in the text, “ When he was thirsty and there was a thick scum of ice over the water hole he would break it by rearing and striking it with his stiff fore legs. “ (page