Buck, from the book Call of the Wild, is intelligent and adaptable. Intelligence can be defined as the skill to gain and apply knowledge to real-life situations. An example is when Curly died. When Curly got knocked down, that gave the other dogs the chance to kill her. From Curly’s death, Buck understood once you are knocked down in a fight, you are dead(p.15). Another example is when Sol-leks attacked Buck for approaching his blind side. Buck then learned not to come to Sol-leks’s blind side. Since he is taking and learning lessons to real-life