Survival In Jack London's The Seed Of Mccoy

Another book written by Jack London is called “The Seed of McCoy.” This book talks about a two different crews of men sailing the sea. His story is mostly wrapped around this one crew of men on a boat called the Pyrenees that happens to have a cargo full of burning wheat. The men are seeking an island capable of anchoring them down so they can beach their boat. McCoy, who is the govern of the island of Pitcairn, was approached by this boat and it’s men to help them succeed in such a task. The second story he starts to talk about is about McCoy’s great-grandfather when he was out at sea a couple generations before. In these times of difficulty, these men were tested to use their survival of the fittest and adaptation skills.

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Natural selection played it’s role here clearly because the people who all died, were all living things that were weak and could not adapt to their changing surroundings, whether they were dog or human. After reading these two books, you can see how survival of the fittest and adaptation are very realistic and are happening everywhere. Survival of the fittest and ability to adapt was very prominent in the two books because you could see that the weak and unfit and the ones unable to adapt kept getting selected out and the fit and adapted would prosper. The inexperienced American trio in The Call of the Wild and uncooperative men from Pitcairn island in The Seed of McCoy were all disqualified because they were very weak in cooperation and they would not accept their new surroundings leading to death from not cooperating. In the books, you could also see the ones who survived and you knew why they did. Buck and McCoy’s crew are two very good examples of survival because they were fit and they accepted their new surroundings and adapted to them. Even though Buck was thrown into a completely new environment, he was able to survive because he was strong in the sense that he knew that in this environment, he had to adapt to the law of kill or be killed and he had to be strong to be able to live up to it. McCoy’s hypnotic voice is a most clear example of why he survived. I think we can all agree that we think the clearest when we are relaxed, so that made him fit. The ability to stay calm in very stressful settings can be very hard to accomplish, but he was able to adapt to the fact that the boat was burning and he may lose his life, but he stayed positive to keep everyone