Theme of "Call of the Wild"

I said yesterday that I was working on an essay about the theme in "The Call of the Wild". I decided that just because I could do it, that I would post it. Here it is.
Nature, as many would think of it, is beautiful, but to many it is as perilous as any a dragon of myth has been described. To Buck, the key character of Jack London's “The Call of the Wild”, nature is wild and had been calling him for many a day, therefore, it was dog against the wild call of nature.
In the beginning, Buck virtually ruled over his home in warm comfortable California. He didn't feel the need to leave, Buck lived a very contented life. “The dignity that comes of good living and universal respect, enabled him to carry himself in right royal fashion.” We saw that Buck did have a large amount of dignity, the kind of dignity that comes of living life like an aristocrat. Buck lived four long years in the lap of luxury at Judge Miller's place. He spent those four years growing into the country aristocrat that we saw at the beginning of Jack London's “The Call of the Wild”.
However, Buck was not to live this life forever. He was transported to the bitter and cold North, but before he got there, he fought a hard fight and learned a hard lesson from the Man in the Red Sweater. After that fight Buck had to learn how to survive winter in the North, which involved finding warmth and food. Buck learned these things from watching other dogs. Buck fought and killed Spitz, the lead dog, after Spitz stole a wild rabbit that Buck had been chasing. After that fight, “Buck was in open revolt. He wanted, not to escape a clubbing, but to have the leadership”. It soon became obvious to Francois and Perrault, the men who drove the dogs, that there was no other choice but to put Buck in the lead.
All this while, the Call had been sounding, and Buck had been dreaming about his ancestors, those dogs who had been friends of the cavemen. After John Thornton had become his master, Buck continually wandered off and would come back after hours, sometimes days. One time while wandering, Buck came across a herd of moose. The head bull tried to ward Buck off, but he continued to follow the herd, Buck was not after any calf, but the lead bull. After many days Buck got his kill and wandered back to John. Soon after Buck got his kill, John Thornton was killed by natives that found John and his camp. Buck came back from one of his wanderings to find the camp occupied by the natives, Buck unceremoniously drove them out of the camp. A pack of wolves wandered near by after night had fallen, and called out. Buck was ready to follow this time, “Man and the claims of man no longer bound him”.
Buck soon after claimed leadership over the wolves just as he had over the sled dogs. The Natives feared him and revered him. Nature had had it's victory.

There it is. I worked long and hard on it. I'll let that message sink in while I put the dailys up.

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Now that I've done that, I can go find something constructive to do. Like read my book. Private thoughts, for Aunt Susan's eyes only! You know Aunt Susan that I like fantasy, right? Well for my B-day(this is just a thought now)I think I would like book two of the Eragon series, if you can find it. And Annalee wants a Webkinz for her B-day.
I think that that will conclude my blog post for today. Oh, yeah, I put those foreign words on the side bar.

Red Baron