Buck, who is a very big and pretty Saint Bernard, has changed through the book due to his new owners, and friends, and his new journey’s. Buck throughout this story has to be able to adapt to his new changes and has to overcome all his new challenges. Weather it’s be taken from his home, beaten with a club, just being worked half to death he still has been able to make it through this life of his.
Buck starts out living in a beautiful house and property of a wealthy judge. Living his best life, he was stolen to pay off a man's debt. Buck was hauled off to Seattle with little food and water. When released from his cage he attacks a man. This man is who we call the man in the ”red sweater”. He is then shipped up into the Yukon to become a sled dog who has to travel many miles to deliver goods, mail, etc. Later Buck was then found being mistreated and was taken by a man named John Thornton. “If you strike that dog again, I'll kill you,” (London 27)Who treats Buck like his best friend.
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Buck has had many friends and also “masters”. During Buck crazy roller coaster of a life he also runs into many enemies as well. He was first stolen by a man who works for his master and was sold for debts. Then comes to meet the man in the red sweater who he tries to attack but was beaten over and over with a club. Buck has then come to realize he is a master worth obeying. As
Buck becomes a sled dog he has started having problem with another dog named spitz. 'Buck stood and looked on, the successful champion, the dominant primordial beast who had made his kill and found it good.' (London 40)Which happens to be the dog he kills to become the leader of the pack.
Bucks journey began back when he was abducted from his house in California where then was hauled off to Seattle, then makes pot to his final destination on the yukon Alaska. There he becomes a sled dog and has run all around Alaska. Traveled many miles with little food and little water. He and his pack have become weak, and one cannot go on any longer. He was one of Bucks best friends who then was put down by a gun, therefore Buck having to leave him behind. His final journey happens after meeting his last master John Thornton. John treated him like he was his best friend, but the relationship wasn’t very long. With Thornton, Buck experiences love for the first time, developing a strong affection for the man who saved his life and who proves an ideal master. Thornton treats his dogs as if they are his own children, and Buck responds with adoration and obeys all commands. Once, to test Buck, Thornton tells him to jump off a cliff; Buck begins to obey before Thornton stops him. (London) While Buck and John are out into the wilderness John has become ill and has passed. Right then and there is when Buck has heard the call of the wild and has become part of a new pack.
Conclusion
In conclusion, Buck has had a crazy roller coaster life being moved from owner to owner and town to town. Buck in the story has been able to adapt to his living conditions just like most people can. In the end Buck was finally where he was supposed to be. With the call of the wild.
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