The Wild Exaggeration

Curly, another dog bought by the mail carriers, stepped off the ship and was immediately met by a huskie who wanted to fight him. Buck was curiously standing by as his new friend was brutally killed by a large group of these dogs. This sight scarred Buck, as he promised himself that that would never be in the same situation. Perrault and Francois and the other dog owners broke up the fight and eventually set up camp for the night. The next morning the two mail carriers and their team of dogs set out for their first trip.

When Buck meets up with the wolf pack, he begins to fight the pack one by one. At one point, the alpha wolf gives up his spot for Buck. “Buck writhing his lips into the preliminary af a snarl, but sniffed noses with him” (london 107). This soports my theme by he didn't have anyone to lead or had any pack to defend. So he would find a pack and worked his way to the top.

Sinclair illustrates Chicago as a jungle and compares his characters to animals to get his point across. The connotation of Darwinism in Sinclair’s metaphorical jungle gives insight to early twentieth century Chicago. Chicago is a place where “human beings writhed and fought and fell upon each other like wolves in a pit; in which lusts were raging fires, and men were fuel, and humanity was festering and stewing and wallowing in its own corruption. Into this wild-beast tangle these men had been born without their consent” (160). The city took everything it could from its inhabitants: their money, freedom, sometimes even health.

One day she notices that policemen are in the woods hunting wolves. Frantic, she literally runs out of her car and runs home, to find a bloody male body. When she turns the body over she immediately notices

In the passage from Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Crossing the narrator describes a traumatic incident that happened to a wolf, and the impact it had on the main character. McCarthy’s literary techniques he uses to help show the impact of the experience: is imagery, tone, mood, and figurative language. The impact of the experience is sad but uplifting, watching nature shut down due to the fact an animal had died, similar to how people shut down in a real funeral.

Upton Sinclair is the author of the book The Jungle. The Jungle was written to tell the public about the conditions of workplaces, particularly in the meat packing industries. Sinclair used graphic words to describe the rotten, nasty, and contaminated meat. As History.com (2016) states, the thought of what their food was going through hit the public hard in the stomach, but that was not the impact that Sinclair had in mind. History.com (2016) came to this conclusion becasue the information recieved from the book.

During the construction phase a lot of wild dogs got used to live in the city. They fed themselves with the food left by the workers. Not long before the beginning of the Olympic games the workers left the sites but the dogs did not and the Russian government was scared that spectators could encounter them. To “delete” this problem, they hired a private company. Alexei Sorokin, the company owner explained that they had to catch the dogs and do whatever they wanted with them.

Primitive instincts is a major theme when one closely examines the changes Buck undergoes from a civilized dog into a wild dog. Buck was raised in a lavish lifestyle, however when he is kidnapped this all changes. Alaska's harsh environment brings out Buck's primitive instincts buried deep within him. It is necessary for these traits to be expressed because surviving is key in Alaska and living in California, these traits would never have been seen. The wilderness appeals to Buck's new wild side and he goes out there to live with the other wild animals when his owner dies.

The second step that the characters must go through is overcoming Western ideology. Wastefulness is deep into Western ideology where overruling and excesses are common. In Dances with Wolves, at the scene when LT. Dunbar first participated in a spectacular buffalo hunt, we can see the extremely wasteful of white hunters as they killed the buffalo to take only the fur, leather and they left the rest to be rotten. This is in high contrast to the Indians, where they utilize everything in the buffalo such as the meat for food, the fur and leather for clothes, and even the bonds for tools.

At last, the war has ended, they have both lost to nature: “Who are they?" asked Georg quickly, straining his eyes to see what the other would gladly not have seen. "Wolves.". ”(6) They both end up eaten by wild wolves since they are both stuck under trees.

When examining the argument of whether BSL is fair to pit bulls, one must view both sides of the debate. The reason why the pit bull is thought of as such an aggressive dog, is that these dogs were bred specifically for their strength. " Bull and terrier breeds were created in early 19th-century England for the popular spectator sports of bull- and bear-baiting." (DogTime) Over the last forty years the pit bull has been a large debate because of the amount of fatal attacks that have been from these dogs. "

Buck had to grow a new backbone for the way of living in the Klondike Gold Rush. He had to set his mind to a new state, a new mode for the rural conditions he would be facing. He had to adapt to the new society of a sleigh dog. Buck adapted and learned the same life and lived a life like a wolf.

Adapting “Personal experience is the basis of all real literature” (George Henry Lewes). Many authors use similar writing topics like how Jack london made buck change and adapt for survival. In the story “Born Worker” by Gary Soto and in the fictional novel “The Call of the Wild” by Jack London, both main characters change throughout the stories. Even though the main characters have different backgrounds, both Back and Jose have the same hardships which are crucial to their future.

Over the course of The Call of the Wild written by Jack London, Buck’s several owners help shape the dog that he turns out to be. Buck is a large and handsome dog who is part St. Bernard and part Scotch sheep dog. All throughout the book, the pack of dogs travel to various places and overcome many difficult obstacles in their journey across the Arctic North. These difficulties lead to Buck becoming more like his primitive ancestors, which is a main theme of the book. Although the owners are only mentioned for a short period of time each (excluding Thornton), each of them made a huge and immediate impact on the story and Buck himself.

The Authors show the aggressive instincts of both characters. In the passage of Call of the Wild London portrays Bucks aggressive instincts by writing , “Here and there savage dogs rushed upon him, but he bristled his neck-hair and snarled (for he was learning fast), and they let him go his way unmolested.” (London Page 1) This helps the reader understand that Buck was not going to let other dogs pick on him and that he was learning to stand up for himself. At this moment in the passage Buck made himself not look like a wimp and that he wasn’t scared to fight back.