Buck's Tris In Into The Wild

Tris: a young girl trying to destroy a harshly divided society. Cap: a devoted friend who tries to keep a promise of cremating his friend. Buck: a sled dog with an abusive past who finds happiness in the wild. However all three were determined to prove that whatever they were fighting for was a worthy cause, to keep promises that might not benefit you for the sake of others, or to just plainly survive.

Tris Prior was a young girl who grew up in a society that was divided into categories. Whichever category you lived in you would become that kind of person. Tris’ society was divided into 5 categories called factions, Amity, Dauntless, Abnegation, Erudite, and Candor. When you turned sixteen you were able to choose your faction. Tris went from

Suddenly, kidnapped and being taught harshly with violence. In the text,“Dazed, suffering intolerable pain from throat and tongue, with the life half throttled out of him, Buck attempted to face his tormentors” (London 21). Even at the beginning of his struggles he still had perseverance to keep moving. Buck was sold to be a sled dog multiple times to different owners throughout his life, only finding few he felt treated him right. Being in the traces as a sled dog made him later realize that the one thing he wanted to do for the rest of his life was to run free in the wild. In order to do that, he had to survive, “All the stiffness and gloss had gone out of his beautiful furry coat. The hair hung down, limp and draggled, or matted with dried blood where Hal's club had bruised him.[...] It was heartbreaking, only Buck's heart was unbreakable. The man in the red sweater had proved that.” (London 107). Buck’s perseverance helped him survive in order to meet his goal of roaming free. After Buck finally meets his goal he is able to understand what life truly is about, happiness. Even if Buck’s goals changed throughout the story his final goal was where he least expected it to which allowed him to take all of the things he learned throughout his experiences and he was able to apply them to his ultimate goal. Overall, even through tough times and hardships Buck was able to prove that to pursue a goal, you have to work for it even if you didn't know that goal