The Role Of Fate In The Call Of The Wild

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In the final pages in The Call of the Wild, Buck is faced with the choice to answer the call or stay with John Thornton. Through every challenge, Buck has had, it was easy to answer the call, but love for a man only grew stronger. It was hard for Buck to disentangle his thoughts. It states "But in spite of his great love he bore for John Thornton, which seemed to bespeak the soft civilizing influence, the strain of the primitive, which the Northland had aroused in him, remained alive and active" (59). The only thing holding back Buck from answering the call was John Thornton. His primitive ways were still with him even if he was with John Thornton. Fate played a huge rule in assuring Buck what to choose because it was fate that John Thornton

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