Call Of The Wild: Buck's Point Of View

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The point of view of Call of the Wild is a combination of Buck’s perspective and a human’s perspective on Buck’s situation in the human world. Most often, the perspective of the story is third-person in Buck’s point of view. This perspective enables the reader to feel what it's like to be a dog and to experience that point of view. I understand how it feels for a dog like Buck. Here London shows Buck’s experience with the new vicious dogs:

“He had never seen dogs fight as these wolfish creatures fought, and his first experience taught him an unforgettable lesson. It is true, it was vicarious experience, else he would not have lived to profit by it. Curly was the victim. Curly's face was ripped open from eye to jaw. Two minutes from the

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