Call Of The Wild Essay

Call of the Wild Essay
This is a hook, please read this. In the realistic fiction short novel, Call of the Wild, written by Jack London, we trace the main character’s, transformation from a pampered house dog in California, to a wild animal in the Yukon. a dog named buck has a good life until he is taken into the wild to become a sled dog, he has a variety of masters and loses all of them and he meets many new dogs and has many fights along with many adventures. at the end he learns how to survive in the wild on his own.
The first step of Buck’s transformation is when the is abducted from his owner. All this started when one of Buck’s owner’s gardener’s helpers, Manuel, kidnaps Buck even though Buck trusts him, “No one saw him and Buck go

off through the orchard on what Buck imagined was merely a stroll. And with the exception of a solitary man, no one saw them arrive at the little flag station known as College Park. This man talked with Manuel, and money chinked between them. … Buck had accepted the rope with quiet dignity(7).” This quote represent Buck’s ignorance towards man’s hatefulness and cruelty. When Buck meets the man in the red sweater, the is met with the law of club and learns it quick, “And Buck was truly a red-eyed devil, as he drew himself together for the spring, hair bristling, mouth foaming, a mad glitter in his bloodshot eyes. …. In mid air, just as his jaws were about to close on the man, he received a shock that checked his body and brought his teeth together with an agonizing clip. He whirled over, fetching the ground on his back and side. He had never been struck by a club in his life, and did not understand.

A dozen times he charged, and as often the club broke the charge and smashed him down. After a particularly fierce blow, he crawled to his feet, too dazed to rush. …. Then the man advanced and deliberately dealt him a frightful blow on the nose. All the pain he had endured was as nothing compared with the exquisite agony of this(10, 11).” In this excerpt Buck learns the law of club the hard way, by being beaten senseless. When Buck meets his first masters in Canada, he is not quite sure what to think. “Buck saw money pass between them, and was not surprised when Curly, a good-natured Newfoundland, and he were led away by the little weazened man. That was the last he saw of the man in the red sweater, and as Curly and he looked at receding Seattle from the deck of the Narwhal, it was the last he saw of the warm Southland. Curly and he were taken below by Perrault and turned over to a black-faced giant called François. Perrault was a French-Canadian, and swarthy; but François was a French-Canadian half-breed, and twice as swarthy. They were a new kind of men to Buck (of which he was destined to see many more), and while he developed no affection for them, he none the less grew honestly to respect them. He speedily learned that Perrault and François

were fair men, calm and impartial in administering justice, and too wise in the way of dogs to be fooled by dogs.(13).” Since these men represent something new to Buck, he isn’t sure how they will treat him, how he should react to them, or how much he could trust them. Buck may not have realized this yet, but seeing Seattle disappear beyond the horizon, and meeting a totally new kind of man with a new kind of fairness and justice, and learning a new way to act, meant that any possibility of a return to his old life was gone. The first step in his transformation was complete, and the remaining steps were very likely inevitable, if the Yukon allows him to survive.