The Protest In Jack London's The Call Of The Wild

Not the Strongest, Nor the Smartest, But the Fittest “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” This idea is supported by an adventure story, The Call of the Wild by Jack London. In this story, Buck is kidnaped to the North because people discover gold in the North and people need strong dogs to pull sleds, which is the only way to travel in the North. Buck has to fit in the environment where is no law but the law of club and fang in order to survive. He later becomes the leader of the dogs and serves for many owners, but owners are often not nice to dogs, he is almost killed by an inexperienced owner. John Thornton saves him, and Buck loves him so much, but when

When Buck cannot get enough food, “He swiftly lost the fastidiousness which had characterized his old life. A dainty eater, he found that his mates, finishing first, robbing him of his unfinished ration” (13). Dogs could not get enough food on the trail with Francois, so they start robbing other dog’s unfinished food. Buck adapts to his mates, he quickly forgets his old way of eating nicely and slowly. London shows the reader that why Buck survived in this environment, it is because that he adapts fast enough. This teaches Buck that he has to eat fast in order to save his food. When Buck’s instinct is coming back, “He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive” (56). At the end of the story, Buck feels the call from the wilderness, his instinct is coming back, he starts kill to eat, kill other lives as his food source. London uses this to show how the wild animals lived, they live on other animals who lived, only the fittest could get on top of the food chain. This also let Buck feels the feeling of being a wild animal, and learns the way wild animals