How Does Jack London Use Metaphors In The Call Of The Wild

The World: As London Sees It The world as a conscious being stupefies some, as it is an awesome thought that many people ponder. The thought of the universe as a thing that picks and chooses who lives and dies terrifies some, while some welcome the idea and coexist with it. Jack London, the author of such books as The Call of the Wild, and The Sea Wolf, is one such man who lives with the idea. London views the world as a Darwinist, or with the theory of natural selection. He sees the world with a sense of cold reality, where the strongest must fight and thrive to keep a place in the world. Jack London uses simile and metaphor to describe the cold reality that the world is a harsh place to live in. London conveys how he feels about
Man must maintain independence and control of his own life, yet he can get help if it means survival. In The Sea Wolf, London uses Wolf Larsen in describing the push that push that a man can need, “some seeds fall into the soil and some seeds fall into the soil and sprout, while some seeds fall into the rocks and become nothing”(100). The captain opens up his heart to Humphrey, and explains that his life became nothing because he never has a driving force to propel him down the road of success. Theses seeds symbolize the captain’s unlived life and the soil represents the environment where a mind can grow and become something great. Whereas the rocks are the place where dreams die and the world turns someone into a mere commoner peasant. Wolf Larsen is one such example of human waste, because through his vast knowledge and potential he never becomes what he needs to become to be whole. To London the forces to push a man come from anywhere, including the human heart. Buck finds his true life’s fulfillment when he discovers the love that is his master John Thornton and Buck knows this is love because, “ Buck would do anything for John Thornton”(71). This love that buck has for John Thornton is a deeper emotion that he can understand, and this shows that London does not just see the world as a cold empty place where the strongest organism lives for tomorrow, but that there exists a more ethereal substance in the world that causes people to do things and drive them toward tomorrow. Buck’s soul insists on having this love because he discovers his share of turmoil on his epic journey to the north. One such instance was on the train ride up to the border when, “Buck’s throat was sore from dehydration…and the men would kick him” these tragedies that the men of the train ride throw at him show Buck only the side of