In a novel by Jack London, “Call of the Wild,” the main character, Buck goes through many changes and there are many similarities and differences between the beginning and the end of the story. Jack London writes, “Buck lived at a big house in the sun-kissed Santa Clara Valley. Judge Miller’s place, it was called.” When summarizing Buck at the ranch and Buck at the end of the story, they turn out to have many differences, but they also contain lots of similarities as well.
To quickly summarize Buck at the ranch, he was owned by Judge Darcy. Jack London writes, “Among the terriers he stalked imperiously, and Toots and Ysabel he utterly ignored, for he was king--king over all creeping, crawling, flying things of Judge Miller's place, humans included.” Buck on his free time went swimming in
One of them includes how healthy Buck is in. In the beginning, Buck is very healthy and is striving well. In the end Buck is in mint physical condition and has the capability to kill lots of things, for example moose and humans. Another similarity is that Buck is very social in both situations. Buck likes to play with the Judge’s sons and hangs out with them. In the end, Buck likes to lick John Thornton. London writes in his story, “John Thornton was eating dinner when Buck dashed into camp and sprang upon him in a frenzy of affection, overturning him, scrambling upon him, licking his face, biting his hand- 'playing the general tom-fool,' as John Thornton characterised it, the while he shook Buck back and forth and cursed him lovingly."
All in all, Buck has gone through many changes between the beginning of the story and the end of the story. This has resulted in many similarities and differences between Buck at the ranch and Buck in the Yukon wilderness. To repeat, Jack London expresses Buck’s changes clearly, with many similarities and differences between when Buck is at Judge Darcy’s ranch and Buck at the end of the
In this portion of the book, the author provides a precise characterization of Crooks. The stable buck takes “pleasure in his torture” (71) of Lennie. He suggests many scenarios that make Lennie miserable such as “Well s’pose, jus’s’pose he [George] don’t come back” (71) “s’pose he gets killed or hurt so he can’t come back” (71). Crooks’ suppositions are a sign of meanness, they demonstrate that loneliness has twisted his conscience. He also behaves this way because since “he ain’t got nobody” (72), he is jealous of Lennie’s friendship with George. Crooks suffers from loneliness. He has no one to turn to, and to be near him. He says it himself that “a guy needs somebody---to be near him” (72), or else “he ge...
At home, which was a large house called Judge Miller’s Place, in the sun kissed Santa Clara Valley in California, Buck ruled over all of the dogs that were there. Buck was Judge Miller’s inseparable companion, until a man named Manuel, who was one the gardener’s helpers, committed a treacherous act. In order to cover his Chinese lottery gambling debts, he stole Buck from his sound sleep and brought him to a flag station called College Park. There, the exchanging of money took place. Buck was loaded onto an express car to Seattle. On his way to Seattle, he found that a man in a red sweater repeatedly beat him. From then on, I knew that Buck would never forget that experience. In that part of the book, I found out that Buck was now an enraged animal and could only be tamed by repeatedly being hit with a club or a whip.
Steinbeck clearly shows that Crooks never has any say on the ranch. No one cares about him. He’s just a “negro stable buck” (66). In this novella, No one ever talks to him except for candy. Lennie finally finds himself going into his room. While in there they speak about racial profiling. Crooks tell lennie that he’s the only African Americans on the ranch. He tells Lennie how he’s “alone out here at night” (73). He has nobody to talk to all he does is read books and think. The people on the ranch care less about his needs and wants, all they want him to do is to continue his work...
Throughout the novel The Call of the Wild Buck is thrown into a vast amount of obstacles. Buck is a half Saint Bernard and Half Sheepdog who is stolen from a home in California. He was then sold as a sled dog in the arctic where he would begin his adventure. Buck undergoes many challenges that can be related to human beings. The two experiences that everyone goes through are love and death. According to Jack London in The Call of the Wild, love and death are portrayed as bitter, sweet, and deadly.
Buck is an interesting story about a young boy from Zimbabwe, who moved to Philadelphia and gets caught up in the sex, drugs, and violence that are in the streets of Philly. Life gets pretty hard for him as his family goes through tough times and he is forced to find his way through the world on his own and of course he manages to do so. For this book report I have chosen chapters 1-3 to summarize and express how these chapters connect or influence me as a college student.
Throughout the novella London uses various figurative language techniques to portray Buck’s gain of knowledge of the wild. From the beginning of the novella Buck’s life is easy and calm, then when he is forced to become a sled dog he is disorientated and is confused to what is happening. He progressively learns more things about the real world and starts to understand it. At the start of the novella London shows that at Judge Miller’s house he is the king and he is the one in charge. This is show when London writes “And over this great demesne Buck ruled.”. Lat...
The Klondike Gold Rush was an impactful moment in history that influenced and affected the lives of the many people who went to the Yukon during the late 19th century. Many people quit their jobs in order to venture out to the Klondike in the search of gold. Although a large group went to find a fortune, few people succeeded. These people who traveled to the Yukon were forced to make adaptations to the new and dangerous dominion. The Yukon had a very cold climate; temperatures were dangerously low and the conditions were hazardous. This influenced the way that people lived, as these travelers had to adapt to the cold and harsh weather that was the present in the Yukon. Similar to these people, the main character Buck in The Call of the Wild by Jack London, is a dog who is abducted by a gardener and forced to work in the harsh Yukon.
lonely. In John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, Crooks, a black stable buck, endures alienation due to racial
Secondly, Buck must adapt to being a servant instead of a king, as he once referred to himself as, And lastly he must adapt to the sleeping conditions there, because he is use to the perfect climate at judge miller's place. As an example he must adapt to running in the cold so his pads won't crack. This is because his paw pads aren't as resistant as the husky because they were born for life on the ice and snow. Secondly, Buck must become use to the fact that he is no longer the king but has instead become a slave to man. An example of bucks new position is the fact that instead of being able to roam completely freely and have everything he needs he usually doesn't have much food and his feet usually hurt. Since there are not many animals in the
First off, Buck shows an act of heroism when he backs up and defends John Thornton at a bar. A very evil-tempered and malicious man named Burton was trying to pick a fight with the tenderfoot at the bar, and John Thornton came in between the two men. Without warning, Burton struck Thornton across the face. Instantly Buck hurled himself into Burton. “Those who were looking on heard what was neither bark nor yelp, but a something which is best described as a roar, and they saw Buck’s body rise up in the air as he left the floor for Burton’s throat” (87). Buck had to be pried off of Burton, so he didn’t kill him. Buck almost killed a man who only punched Thornton. If Buck had no civilization in him like critics said, he wouldn’t have defended his master. It even said in the book, “But his reputation was made, and from that day his name spread through every camp in Alaska” (87). This reputation he made was, “If you set a finger on John Thornton and Buck was around, be ready to get your head ripped off”. The only reason he had this reputation was because of the intense love he had for his owner, and a
Crooks is a character who is mistreated in many ways because he is black. Crooks is the stable buck of the barn. It’s not certain whether Crooks is his name, or his nickname, but we know he got kicked in the back by a horse and had a crooked back ever since. Nevertheless he gets yelled at by the boss every time something’s wrong. " ‘The boss gives him hell when he’s mad. But the stable buck don’t give a damn
...re. People usually regain natural instincts in the process. He generated the idea that if humans go back to nature, they would become stronger and more self-reliant. In the wake of the gold rush, man had to venture into the bitter cold (back to nature). People like john Thornton thrived because they were able to key into their natural instincts. Jack also highlighted that over reliance on civilization makes one weak. This is shown when Hals, Charles and Mercedes die off because they were unable to use instincts to cope with the harsh situations of the wild. Because of this, buck was able to make the transition from lovable play pal to a skilled hunter. By getting in touch with his natural instinct, he was able to change his way of life and survive in the environment he found himself. Buck becomes wild and uses social Darwinism and survival of the fittest to survive.
In The Call of the Wild, Buck finds comfort in his relationships with man. When he is initially removed from Judge Miller's house in Santa Clara Valley, he is given his first exposure to the wild where, "every moment life and limb were in peril" (London 31). But soon he finds himself not entirely ready to leave civilization and answer the call of the wild, because he must first experience love. Buck establishes a relationship with John Thornton, and "love, genuine passionate love, was his for the fir...
Changing your everyday life can sometimes require you to learn new things and develop new abilities that may or may not be difficult. In The Call of The Wild, by Jack London, Buck is taken to the Yukon Territory (in Canada) where he must learn to develop new skills and learn to live in his new life and environment. However, my father did not have to develop to his environment, he had to adapt to new life struggles and substantial changes. While both my father and Buck had to adjust to vastly different changes, they both had to learn and grow new attributes. Buck and my father both had to learn new skills, like most animals and people will in their lifetimes, in order to persevere through the hardest challenges of their lives.
The novel The Call of the Wild tells a story about how Buck, a domesdicated dog in the "sun-kissed" Santa Clara, managed to survive in the wilds of Klondike. Jack London conveyed many of his own ideas about living in this novel by telling readers what Buck went through to adjust to the harsh realities of life in the frosty North, where survival was the only imprerative.