I believe that the change that required the most effort for Buck, in the Call of the Wild, was the transition between gaining and giving respect. In the Southland, when Buck lived at Judge Miller’s estate, he was royalty, so-to-speak. He did not give respect, so much as gain respect. He obeys his family, but that isn’t respect, that’s just obedience. He ignores the other, more domesticated, dogs, but that isn’t necessarily respect. It states in the book, “...for he was king… over all creeping, crawling, flying things of Judge Miller’s place, humans included,” (2). This proves that everyone respects him, but he just obeys or ignores. In the Northland, when he first arrives, he mostly ignores the other dogs, but he doesn’t gain any respect.