Literary Analysis Of Call Of The Wild

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The Call of The Wild Literary Analysis Do you know what it's like to be torn from your home and thrown into the wild, primitive northland? In the novel The Call of the Wild by Jack London, there is a dog who comes by the name Buck.Buck was born in California and he lived there for four years, but there was a demand for strong, heavy furred dogs thanks to the Yukon gold rush. Buck was stolen from his home in the Santa Clara Valley and sold to men in the north. Being in that primitive environment aroused something in him, his wolf instincts, and the longer he stayed the stronger they grew until he was merely a wolf, and there was one thing, one man that kept him from being that wolf and it was his love for John Thornton.The theme Power of the