Surname 2
The kinship between man and dog is ever changing but also touching the ancient times
when caveman went hunting with wild wolves. Man seeks to domesticate buck by shaping his
identity, where deer struggles to reconcile his inner feelings with his changes for his “ideal
master.”
When sharing a meal with the other dogs, Buck learns that he has to steal to have enough
food to eat on his own. Buck is a little bigger than the other dogs, and so he needs more food to
eat, but the other dogs steal his rations at the slightest opportunity. Buck adopts a new style of
living where Buck learns how to hunt and forgets the comforts he had when he was a
domesticated dog. He does not depend on the owner any longer as he determines that to eat
enough means to defending his food against the other dogs. “He becomes a ruthless hunter.” In
the end, buck learns not to give up. Through ups and downs, you can go the distance. You are
part of nature and just if you push all will be okay.
Buck also learns not to settle for the pampered life of civilization but to go out and find
the inner you. This is where at one point he’s stolen from his comfortable home and taken to
another environment where he shares food with the other dogs. Bucks next lesson is adopting a
suitable place to sleep. Sleeping in an appropriate area is caused when he sees lights one night in
François all because he has been used to taking a nap by the judge’s fireplace. Since he’s the
definition of a domesticated dog, buck begins to adapt to his surroundings and learn from other
dogs.
Buck gets involved with another dog Spitz where they end up fighting, and buck ends up
winning. At the end of the call of the wild, Thornton is killed, and deer seek revenge on the
people who destroyed his master.
