The Largest dog in the yukon, stood like a stone wall against the crisp, Canadian wind and all over the dense, north snow he left his mammoth sized paw prints followed by the tracks of his team mates and a sled. In the adventure novel, The Call Of The Wild by Jack London, Buck the largest dog in the yukon endures a variety of masters, sled dogs, and challenges. Buck went from the life of luxury in california, to toiling in the traces in the Yukon, during the 1897 gold rush. One of the bolder themes in The Call Of The Wild is survival of the fittest, This theme appears over and over in the novel. One example of survival of the fittest happens when buck and his team chased a rabbit for fun. When bucks team was set on killing the rabbit for food, buck spotted it first and lead the team towards the rabbit. When spitz caught the rabbit before buck, buck wasn't happy. Buck wanted that kill. “At the sound of this the cry of life plunging down from life's apes in the grip of death, the full pack of buck's heels raised a hells chorus of delight. Buck did not cry out.” (London 40). Spitz was fit to survive in the hostile Northland. Buck later learned that those unable to survive die when unprepared. …show more content…
While looking for a place to cross an unfrozen river, a man named John Thornton told the unprepared people not to cross. They crossed regardless of what they were told. Everybody was killed except for buck. “They saw charles turn and make one step to run back and the whole section of ice gave way and dogs and humans disappear.” (London 27). When those who were unprepared didn't listen to the people were experienced they died. When the trio went on the thin ice, they proved they could not