How Is Buck Learned In The Call Of The Wild

Learning the Ways of the Primitive Imagine being taken away from a way of life, and then being expected to learn how to adapt to the totally opposite laws of the new area, Buck has to learn the ways of the wild. This takes place in the fictional novel, The Call of the Wild by Jack London. In this adventure story, a strong, half St. Bernard, and half Scotch Shepherd dog, named Buck was kidnapped and sold off to sled dog masters in Alaska, to journey to Dawson for gold. Buck has gone through multiple owners and has been roughly beaten to learn how to obey the laws. He dislikes some of his owners but obeyed and quickly showed his dominance and strength to the other dogs. Buck adapted and killed to be where he was at the end, it took a lot of

As the novel goes on, Buck loves his new owner John but he is starting to become more a part of the savage wild ways. An example of how Buck was becoming savage was, “Mercy did not exist in primitive life, kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the laws and this mandate down out of the depths of time, he obeyed” (London 44). Buck quickly learned if he did not become a good hunter, then he would be the hunter's next prey, so he was a predator who killed and got what he wanted. Buck was now exploring the wild and becoming more friendly with other wolves and creatures who he had things in common with but was slowly becoming more distant from John. Adding onto what was previously stated about Buck becoming a good hunter, the text states, “He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that live, unaided, alone, his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment, where only the strongest things survive” (London 56). Buck was now a killer, but that was the law of the wild, and he needed to be strong. To survive and thrive in the wild, Buck had to be a hunter and a