Buck’s evolutionary process is a combination of natural selection and of other Darwinian “accidents” through which he has evolved. The probability of his existence, a product of no clearly definable pattern, had characterized, for example, the Fortune La Parle, who also knew life as chance. About Buck, too, London again asserts,
Thus, as token of what a puppet thing life is the ancient song surged through
Him and he came into his own again; and he came because men had found a
Yellow metal in the North, and because Manuel was a gardener’s helper
Whose wages did not lap over the needs of his wife and divers small copies?
Of himself. (The Call of the Wild.p.22)
It is London view of the pessimist who speaks for Buck in this cryptic manner.
The …show more content…
Thornton becomes Buck’s savior, and the life with Thornton revives memories of the soft days before Buck came north. Still the episode only quickens Buck’s dilemma: Buck cannot decide between the call of Thornton’s love and the lure of the wild. In the structural tour de force of the novel, London parallels Buck’s journey back to the wild with the literal journey the sled teams take to the wild country of …show more content…
. . (The Call of the Wild.p.95)
London says that “Buck earned sixteen hundred dollars in five minutes for John Thornton,” in summarizing the events that characterize Buck’s “love for man.” But the love and fame of his feats in civilization cannot forever restrain Buck. He is on the trail with the man he loves also the vision and all his vision the “trap” is prominent. Expect for his love for Thornton, Buck’s return to his “first” love becomes complete. In day’s dreams, while his masters work their claims, Buck wanders through the wild until at last he cannot resist the call. “And he knew it, in the old familiar way, as a sound heard before.” In answering the call, Buck finds a friend in the wolf he has heard. But the two ways of life persist in his mind, even with increased perplexity as he returns to be with Thornton’s briefly. At last Buck’s killing a bull moose assures him that it is with the wild he belongs:
There is a patience of the wild-dogged, tireless, persistent as life itself ss
That holds motionless for endless hours the spider in its web, the
Thus, as token of what a puppet thing life is the ancient song surged through
Him and he came into his own again; and he came because men had found a
Yellow metal in the North, and because Manuel was a gardener’s helper
Whose wages did not lap over the needs of his wife and divers small copies?
Of himself. (The Call of the Wild.p.22)
It is London view of the pessimist who speaks for Buck in this cryptic manner.
The …show more content…
Thornton becomes Buck’s savior, and the life with Thornton revives memories of the soft days before Buck came north. Still the episode only quickens Buck’s dilemma: Buck cannot decide between the call of Thornton’s love and the lure of the wild. In the structural tour de force of the novel, London parallels Buck’s journey back to the wild with the literal journey the sled teams take to the wild country of …show more content…
. . (The Call of the Wild.p.95)
London says that “Buck earned sixteen hundred dollars in five minutes for John Thornton,” in summarizing the events that characterize Buck’s “love for man.” But the love and fame of his feats in civilization cannot forever restrain Buck. He is on the trail with the man he loves also the vision and all his vision the “trap” is prominent. Expect for his love for Thornton, Buck’s return to his “first” love becomes complete. In day’s dreams, while his masters work their claims, Buck wanders through the wild until at last he cannot resist the call. “And he knew it, in the old familiar way, as a sound heard before.” In answering the call, Buck finds a friend in the wolf he has heard. But the two ways of life persist in his mind, even with increased perplexity as he returns to be with Thornton’s briefly. At last Buck’s killing a bull moose assures him that it is with the wild he belongs:
There is a patience of the wild-dogged, tireless, persistent as life itself ss
That holds motionless for endless hours the spider in its web, the