Call of the Wild

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most important dog in Judge Miller's family. He dominated over all the other dogs, and he even thought that he ruled over people (1). In Klondike, he discovers what a hierarchy truly is, and he realizes that authority truly is the power over life and death. Either all dogs have power, and they have to exert it to survive, or they surrender their strength to a larger and stronger dog and can only hope that the dog would safeguard them.

(1) “And over this great demesne Buck ruled…The whole realm was his…. But he had saved himself by not becoming a mere pampered housedog… He had merely intimated his displeasure, in his pride believing that to intimate was to command” (Chapter I)

Buck must acquire a slew of lessons to live in the wild, and he does it admirably. Buck's success in the freezing North, however, appears to be more than a question of learning the ways of the wild; rather, the story indicates that Buck progressively retrieves basic instincts and memories that ...

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