Analysis Of A Dog In Jack London's The Call Of The Wild

If you were a dog and you had a perfect life how would you feel if you got taken from it? Well in the book The Call of The Wild written by Jack London a dog Buck has an amazing life in Santa Clara in California. But he got taken to the Yukon. He goes from a dog who goes swimming in a pool to a ghost dog that leads a pack of wolves in the Yukon. Dogs in the Yukon have to prove that they can’t get knocked down in a fight, killed or be beaten. In the Yukon you have to be able to survive. When Buck was at Judge Miller’s estate he didn’t really get how hard a dog's life was in the wilderness until he got to the Yukon.In the Yukon if you got knocked down in a fight you were most likely going to die. And if you were a female you’re even more likely going to die. “But she lay there limp and lifeless in the bloody, trampled snow, almost literally tern to pieces the swart half-breed standing over her and cursing horribly.” (London 17) Poor Curly one of Buck’s friends wasn’t capable of fighting in a fight and she died. She wasn’t the only female dog to die.
Spitz was always stealing Buck’s food, stealing his sleeping hole and attacked Buck whenever he wasn’t ready for it. One day the team had been chasing a rabbit and Buck knew that it was his kill, Spitz outsmarted Buck and Spitz got the rabbit. And the big fight between Buck and Spitz took place.“Only Spitz quivered and bristled as he staggered back and forth, snarling with horrible menace, as though to frighten off impending death.” (London 43) Buck is definitely one of those dogs that you don’t want to mess with and by the time spitz realized that he was almost