Examples Of Naturalism In The Call Of The Wild

While reading the novel The Call of the Wild, I saw on numerous occasions where Buck was faced with forces beyond his control. He started off as a dog that was in charge of the house, and knew nothing about survival in the wild, to the primordial beast he turned into at the end. He was forced to go through that transformation all just because the gardener's wife had a more expensive taste than what he had in his pockets. Call of the Wild is a perfect example that life is a grim losing battle from all the hardships he has been through. The Call of the Wild is a work of Naturalism. For example, the first force that Buck can’t control is anger. “[H]e accumulated a fund of wrath that boded ill for whoever first fell foul of him. His eyes turned bloodshot, and he was metamorphosed into a raging fiend.” Eren Yeager from Attack on Titan connects to this. Eren swore to kill all the titans to get revenge for the death of his mother. Later in the series, Eren found out that the titans were controlled from an outside force and that titans were really his own people.

“[H]urling himself upon them in a frenzy to destroy. He sprang at the foremost man (it was the chief of the Yeehats), ripping the throat wide open till the rent jugular spouted a fountain of blood. He did not pause to worry the victim, but ripped in passing, with the next bound tearing wide the throat of a second man.” Buck's anger and blood thirst for revenge connects to John Wick. John Wick was an assassin that found the love of his life, so in order to retire, his boss told him he had to complete an impossible mission. He completed the mission, so he then went to live with the love of his wife, until she passed away from cancer. Her last gift to John was a dog that some thieves broke inside his house and killed. So John went back to his old way of life and killed everyone involved in the murder of his dog, and did not stop until the job was