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The Call of the Wild
When the unsuspecting Buck is stolen from his owner and sold to become a sled dog, he is taken by surprise; nevertheless, despite his abuse, Buck maintains a sense of pride as he struggles against...
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The Call of the Wild
The story suggests that Perrault treats his dogs fairly and impartially. He ensured that all his dogs were fed and allowed an extra portion for Buck. However, Perrault favored Spitz with regards to...
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The Call of the Wild
I would say Buck would be unlikely to rejoin man, but that doesn’t mean he never could. Buck’s early experiences with humans were good. He was the judge’s dog, and he was the king of the...
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The Call of the Wild
There are several conflicts in the book, but the main conflict is that Buck is kidnapped and held against his will. It is resolved when he is rescued by John Thornton. When John Thornton dies,...
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The Call of the Wild
The relationship between Buck and John Thornton symbolizes the bond between animals and humans. John is the pull that keeps Buck from going wild. When Buck lives with the judge, he lives like a...
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The Call of the Wild
Buck fights and kills Spitz and takes over as lead sled dog. Spitz is the leader of the sled dog team, and Buck grows to hate him. He refuses to give in to Spitz, eventually killing him and taking...
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The Call of the Wild
When Buck first hears the call of the wild in the night, he springs to his feet and runs in the direction of the sound, plunging into the forest; he only goes so far, however, before returning to...
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The Call of the Wild
After Buck and the others reach Skaguay, the dogs hope to rest, but they are sold to two men and a woman, none of whom know anything about sled dogs. Whipped and forced to go when they are nearly...
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The Call of the Wild
Buck feels a strong connection with Thornton, his final master, and is deeply devoted to him. This is new for Buck: toward his previous masters, Buck had felt a kind of angry revulsion. If Buck...
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The Call of the Wild
In Jack London's The Call of the Wild, Buck returns from his moose hunt to find his beloved master, John Thornton, and everyone else, including his dog friends, dead. They had been killed by the...
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The Call of the Wild
A symbol is something that stands for something other than itself. One of the symbols in the story is the club. For Buck, the club is a symbol of man’s power over animals. Buck learns the Law...
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The Call of the Wild
The reader can certainly sympathize with Buck when he goes from his privileged and easy life with the Judge to the rough and tumble life of the trail. Buck developed the ego to go with his...
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The Call of the Wild
Buck had begun to act on his desire for the leadership of the team. And Spitz was in trouble because Buck "was preeminently cunning, and could bide his time with a patience that was nothing less...
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The Call of the Wild
The snowshoe rabbit is white or light gray, because it is hard to see in the snow. Dub is the one who sees the rabbit first. He gets it started running, but is unable to catch it. As a result,...
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The Call of the Wild
The author shows that Buck is becoming more like his wild, untamed ancestors by highlighting the gradual change in his attitudes towards his primal instincts and by illustrating the compounding...
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The Call of the Wild
Interpretations of this question will vary from reader to reader, but here are my own observations. On the subject of knowledge, the poem seems to imply that a lack of knowledge is what is...
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The Call of the Wild
The man in the red sweater is a dog-breaker who teaches Buck the Law of Club and Fang. Buck lives a very comfortable lifestyle on Judge Miller’s ranch. He is a pampered pet. Yet when he is...
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The Call of the Wild
The man in the red sweater teaches Buck that if he wants something, he has to be stronger than everyone else. The man in the red sweater teaches Buck the Law of Club and Fang, which means that...
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The Call of the Wild
Toots, Ysabel, and a few other dogs live with Buck in the house. Buck is the main dog on Judge Miller’s ranch, at least from his perspective. He is the biggest and the most important dog on the...
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The Call of the Wild
Thorton and his partners finally find gold. Their discovery certainly occupies much of their time; as a result, Buck has little to do and lies around in this primordial wilderness with dreams of...
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The Call of the Wild
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The Call of the Wild
Buck lived a pampered life at Judge Miller’s place. Buck was not always a sled dog. Before he was kidnapped, he was a pampered house pet. Judge Miller was wealthy, living on a large farm in...
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The Call of the Wild
In Literature, Man versus Self is referring to the internal type of conflict that presents itself within the main character. Readers are exposed to this through their internal thoughts and...
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The Call of the Wild
Francois and Perrault value Buck for his strength and eventually come to hold him in high esteem because of his amazing ability to lead the team and do their work for them. They lack any...
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The Call of the Wild
In The Call of the Wild by Jack London, Buck performs exceedingly well when he succeeds former lead dog Spitz. At first, the drivers want to use another lead dog, but Buck refuses to allow it,...
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The Call of the Wild
In The Call of the Wild by Jack London, the dogs and their drivers arrived at Skagway after a thirty day trek from Dawson. They were exhausted and down in weight because they had not had a proper...
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The Call of the Wild
In The Call of the Wild by Jack London, Buck finally has enough of Spitz and during a terrible fight, Buck kills Spitz. He soon starts to see a "hairy man" by the fire. This man represents a time...
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The Call of the Wild
In chapter 7 of the novel The Call of The Wild, we are introduced to a ''hairy man'' whom Buck sees crouching next to a fire. ''When he watched the hairy man sleeping by the fire, head between his...
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The Call of the Wild
In author Jack London's The Call of the Wild, the Yeehat tribe considers Buck the "Evil Spirit" because he killed many of them. When Buck returned from one of his hunts in the forest, he found the...
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The Call of the Wild
Judge Miller was Buck’s first owner. He lived in a big house in Santa Clara Valley, California. Buck, “….ruled the estate. Here he was born, and here he had lived the four years of his...
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The Call of the Wild
The incompetent humans do not know that they have too many dogs, so they overfeed and then underfeed them. Charles and Hal have no idea what they are doing. To them, it makes sense to have as many...
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The Call of the Wild
Buck meets the man in the red sweater in Chapter 1 when Manuel kidnaps him. Manuel works for Buck’s owner, Judge Miller. Manuel steals Buck one day. Buck thinks he is going for a walk, but in...
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The Call of the Wild
The “ghost dog” is a beast that is talked about by the Yeehat Indians. They talk about him as being a ghost because they only see glimpses of him and no one is totally certain that he exists....
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The Call of the Wild
In The Call of the Wild by Jack London, Buck was a St. Bernard/Scotch shepherd mix. His father was a very large St. Bernard named Elmo, and his mother was the shepherd. Buck was not as big as his...
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The Call of the Wild
The theft and sale of Buck in The Call of the Wild completely alters the dog's life as it reverses the generations of domestication of his breeds of St. Bernard and the Scottish shepherd and...
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The Call of the Wild
At the beginning of Chapter 4, Francois discovers that Spitz is missing. He draws Buck to the light of the fire to point out the big dog's wounds to Perrault, who comments that 'Dat Spitz fight lak...
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The Call of the Wild
When Buck returns to the camp to find the Yeehats dancing around the shattered mine site, the rage that possesses him is overwhelming. As London writes that "for the last time in his life [Buck]...
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The Call of the Wild
One of the things that the description of Buck makes plain from the beginning is his incredible strength and power. Even when he is living the soft life with the Judge, he has a confidence that...
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The Call of the Wild
Buck comes from living in a nice home where he gets to go inside the house, has plenty to eat, and basically lives a soft life. Once he gets to Alaska, everything changes very quickly. One of the...
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The Call of the Wild
Sure, Thornton's death could suggest that being primitive is incompatible with love. The case most certainly could be made that once Thornton is gone, any remaining love in Bucks' life is also...
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The Call of the Wild
Buck has left John and the mining camp to go hunt and has decided that he will bring down a great old bull moose. As he follows it and harries it for days, the Yeehat Indians have attacked the...
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The Call of the Wild
Mercedes steals from the fish sacks and feeds the dogs more than their rations when no one is watching; this action proves detrimental because it creates a food shortage later on. Mercedes, the...
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The Call of the Wild
Up until the point where he is dog-napped, Buck has no real reason to distrust humans. He has been treated exceedingly well and has established himself as the king of the Judge's household and...
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The Call of the Wild
Mutiny is an all out rebellion or revolt. We often hear it being used in stories about ships on the sea when the crew members, for one reason or another, revolt against their captain and take over...
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The Call of the Wild
The first lesson Buck learned was that he had to really look out for himself amongst all the dogs on the beach. He sees Curly assaulted by a dog she approached in a friendly way. As soon as she is...
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The Call of the Wild
Buck was transformed from domestic to wild after the Yeehats killed Thorton, his master, who had saved him from imminent death at the hands of his former masters. While he was out hunting, the...
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The Call of the Wild
From the moment that Francois whips the dog that attempts to steal Buck's bone, Buck feels that they are fair and so he respects them. Some of the things they do are difficult for him to...
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The Call of the Wild
You have two main ways to start this kind of argumentative essay. You could pick which argument you personally believe more, or you could pick which argument is easier to defend. If you feel...
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The Call of the Wild
In The Call of the Wild, chapter 5, it is clear that Buck's new masters--most notably Hal--are incompetent. They overwork and underfeed their dogs, who grow increasingly weaker. However, Hal and...
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The Call of the Wild
Buck was humiliated right away in chapter 1 of the book The Call of the Wild. Buck has a pretty good life at the estate of Judge Miller. He is well taken care of, fed, and groomed. He has the...
