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Call Of The Wild Analysis

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The Call of the Wild Literacy Analysis “Buck stood and looked on, the successful champion, the dominant primordial beast who had made his kill and found it good.” (London, 43). In the adventure novel by Jack London, The Call of the Wild, a huge 140 pound Saint Bernard/Scotch Shepherd named Buck goes through internal and external challenges that leaves him retrogressed and more wild than ever. He adapts to the wild Northland environment that he had never experienced in the sunny state of California. Therefore, the only thing bringing him back to domestication is the love for his owner, John Thornton. The theme of struggle for mastery appears in the novel more than once as Buck retrogressed to a more primitive state.
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This explains that both huge dogs knew that they were fighting to the death. Buck and Spitz wanted to be the alpha dog, but each knew not both of them could rule, one had to leave. The enemies fought long and hard, but at once Buck used something Spitz did not have, which was imagination. Buck’s imagination beat Spitz’s forward approach on fighting and knocked him down. At this moment, the rivalry was finished and Buck gained supremacy over Spitz.
The struggle for mastery was still in Buck after John Thornton’s death from the Yeehat tribe. The vicious Buck was out to get his prey that killed the love of his life. He wanted to warn off any predators that would come close to him and his precious John Thornton and when the Yeehat tribe was celebrating over John’s death, Buck became his ancestor, the wolf and fought for what he believed in. “ He sprang at the foremost man ( it was the chief of the Yeehats), ripping the throat wide open till the rent jugular spouted a fountain of blood.”(London,104). The quote highlights that Buck would do anything for becoming master and ruler. He felt good that he made his first human kill because the Yeehats ruined John and Buck’s life. Buck was protective over his loving owner and killed anyone that came in his way. The struggle for mastery was a leading personality for Buck and he showed it in everything he did. Even when Buck was a young puppy the thought of mastery was

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