The Wild Exaggeration

For once Buck learns to adjust, “his development was rapid. ” Experience is his teacher, like, Sister Carrie’s or Stephen Crane’s Maggie. But his morality was not questioned by the reader because Buck is a dog. London chooses to ignore the moral implications of Buck’s thievery. For Buck’s “new” way of life was new to him only momentarily, London closes out Buck’s discourse on the law of club and fang.

In the novel of the Call of the Wild, Buck tried to adapt to his new and difficult life. He was forced to help the men find gold; he experienced a big transformation in him. At the end, he transformed into a new and different dog. Buck went through physical, mental and environmental changes. In my essay, I talked about how Buck was like at the beginning, what he changed into, and how he was forced to adapt his new environment, and underwent these changes.

The difference in climates and environment creates different obstacles and things that have to be learned in order to survive in the wild(Napierkowski). Besides just the setting he also had to face the wild. A theme of the story is civilization vs. the wild. His life was changed over a period of time. The title itself says “The Call of the Wild”.

Jack London is well-known for his novels on wolves and dogs: The Call of the Wild and White Fang. This essay explores the latter; a hero’s journey adapted to the character of a wolf-dog hybrid. As a canine placed into a traditionally human role, White Fang is an obvious statement on the perception of humanity. Therefore, the following research question arose: How does White Fang’s adaptation as a hero challenge the perception of humanity?

More civilized dogs like Newfoundland’s and even huskies find primitive counterparts in the wolves whose howl at the end of the story was the very sound of the wild. London “doubles” the story into opposing worlds. Buck begins in the waking world of reality and ends in a silent, white wasteland which was also the world of dream, shadow, and racial memory. Buck survives to embrace life at the end of a book informed by death as the horrifying, rhythmic reflex of an entire order of things. Life in The Call of the Wild was a survival built on the death of other living creatures.

Jack London wrote The call of the Wild in 1900 and had it published 1905. The main character, Buck a St Bernard living the good life until he gets stolen and taken to Alaska. After that he is made a sled-dog who is sometimes beaten and starved. But in the end this is a transformation physically and mentally. The story takes place in Miami, Florida for a part of the story until he is stolen and taken to a remote part of Alaska. More characters of this story would be Spitz, the dog-sled leader that didn’t like Buck and died to him after trying to kill him. Another character would be Curly, a dog who took a liking to Buck ,but in the end died to mysterious odds. Some themes associated with the story are Primitivity, Knowledge and Wisdom, Suffering, and Perseverance. (Shmoop Editorial Team)

In the Call of the Wild, the author Jack London uses various literary devices to help us the feelings, emotions, and thoughts of characters. One in particular, called Juxtaposition helps us understand Buck’s feelings of ecstasy in chapter 3 and leaves an impact on the reader. In chapter 3, Buck spots a snowshoe rabbit and starts chasing after it, while he does, he feels “a stirring of old instincts" (37) which drives him to ecstasy. The author uses this moment to use Juxtaposition to describe the ecstasy that Buck feels, “And such is paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive” (37). These two phrases completely contrast each other however manage to give us a deeper

What is more important in a wolf? Beauty, or brutality? Jack London perfectly portrays this in his novel “Call of the Wild” by using excellent word choice. When Jack London uses diction, or word choice, he can compare the beauty of the wolves in the Klondike and the savageness of them. London shows that the savage wolves did not care if they were on the ground, or wounded, they would attack and kill them.

Buck’s great genes and extensive training have allowed him to become more agile than any foe he is pitted against. So when Jack London is talking about Buck fighting a pack of wolves he say “he was everywhere at once” meaning that buck is so quick to strike that there is nowhere that the wolves aren’t vulnerable. The inclusion of this hyperbole gives us a sense of how Buck has evolved from a simple house dog to a wild killer of great strength.

Have you ever heard the calls? Buck sure has. In the novel The Call of The Wild by Jack London, Buck is a large st. Bernard that lives in the beautiful Santa Clara Valley with Judge Miller. As the story goes on Buck gets dognapped and sent to the man in the red sweater. The man in the red sweater is also known as the crack dog doctor.

The Call of the Wild London uses his own style of anthropomorphism. Consider phrases like "Buck possessed a quality that made for greatness imagination.” Certainly, animals do not overtly think like this but London gives enough human perspective for the reader. London keeps his dogs within the context of naturalism without destroying their

In the story “To Build a Fire” by Jack London and the short film “To Build a Fire” Directed by David Cobham a man and dog were traveling through the Yukon trail because of the gold rush. While they were travling through the Yukon trail they ran into problems along the way. During the problems the man and dog thought differently and similarly. The man and dog think differently in some situations like when the man or chechaquo(New comer) was trying to kill the dog. The man and dog also think similarly in other situations like, they both have the same idea of survival.

Together, all of these examples of imagery develop the idea of the animal behavior of the story’s characters by depicting the atrocities and strident conditions the inmates face throughout the

Charles Darwin introduced the world to the theory of Natural Selection, also known as “Survival of the Fittest”, in 1856. The theory claims that organisms with the drive to fight for their lives are more likely to survive compared to other organisms who do not put up a fight. Jack London's Call of the Wild depicts Buck undergoing and overcoming a series of brutal challenges in the harsh wilderness of Canada during the Klondike Gold Rush, ultimately allowing for him to become a representation of Darwin's concept of the “survival of the fittest”. London employs a harsh tone that stresses the violence experienced by the dogs throughout the novel, emphasizing the dog's struggle to stay alive. In addition to this, London presents an analogy of Buck's previous life with Judge Miller and his life as a sled-dog, showcasing Buck's complete change.

.Brian ’s winter by: Gary Paulsen and call of the wild by: Jack London. There are three traits that both Brian and buck have here they are.