Sometimes you have to get tough, and persevere through your challenges. In The Call of the Wild, Buck the dog got beaten and tortured relentlessly. Anxious, Buck had to get tougher through some conflicts. Regardless of my dad's accident, he kept going and overcame his struggles. Even though Buck and my father’s injuries are very different, they both had to get right back up after their physical problems. Everyone has to persevere through some confrontation and get and get more durable. Whether it is getting beaten like Buck or getting in an accident like my father. In The Call of the Wild, Buck had to get stronger and learn how to get through some complications in his life. Buck was sold to the Man in the Red sweater, and he endlessly beat …show more content…
Very young, my dad was in the fifth grade and having an enthusiastic day on the farm when something dreadful happened to him. It was a clear day, and he was very elated. Until he got in an accident on his three wheeler. Clueless, he didn’t know what to do, fear rushed through his body. So he decided to just sit there and wait for someone to come find him. Someone finally found him, and tried to help immediately. Frantically, they rushed him to the hospital, hoping it wasn’t too serious. They got to the hospital and the doctors feared he had a broken neck, and could never walk again. Scared, he had to toughen up. Everything tensed up in the room when the doctors walked in. Luckily, it was only a shattered jaw, but they had to sew his jaw shut. My dad was very stubborn and would do anything to get better. All the doctors were very surprised when he recovered quicker than expected, and everyone in his family was extremely thankful. Everything was getting better and the stars were aligning. My dad took away so much from this event, what he mainly learned was to be very grateful for family, because they will be there for you. As can be seen my dad learned that sometimes you have to fight through the pain and get tougher to overcome your …show more content…
At first both Buck and my dad were struggling to get better after some accidents. My father wasn’t doing well with his jaw sewed shut trying to get comfortable with everything. Buck with his first owner was abused very badly with The Man in the Red Sweater, he was struggling with keeping up and not getting severely injured. Something else they both did was sucking up through all the pain. When the accident first happened and my dad was just sitting there was when the injury ached the most. All he was thinking about was holding it together and to forget about it. What happened to Buck was different from my dad, his owners Hal, Charles, and Mercedes were awful owners. The beatings were different and Buck was barely surviving, so he had to suck it up and hope something better would come. They both showed how strong they really were when they fought through these problems. One more thing that they had in common was that they both got tough and recovered quicker than anyone would expect. After lots of sitting and being silent, my dad did everything he could possibly do to get better. It worked and the doctors never saw it coming that he could recover so quickly. Once Buck got away from his amateur owners, he had the best owners in his life. Buck had to get over all the pain and recover so he could spend time with John Thornton. Thankfully, Buck did just that
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:
In Call of the Wild Buck is forced to mature and persevere through great loss. When Buck is initially sold he gets his first look at the primitive world around him. At the same time he loses Judge Miller, his caretaker. This is how Buck loses family. Buck also loses his best friend after he's taken from his family. Bucks dog friend, Curly gets killed in the early phases of the book. this really gives Buck a look at how savage the real world is. Bucks losses don't end there,Buck also
In life, things will happen, and I can promise you that. Good or bad? There’s no telling, but in either one, you must always persevere. In The Call of the Wild, Buck must keep going and never lose hope. If he does, there is a slim window for survival. When you get badly hurt sometimes you just want to break down and cry, but in my dad’s position that wasn’t an option. While Buck is a dog and my dad is a human, they both can relate. Perseverance is a hard trait to have but in life threatening situations, it can go two ways. We can be broken, but nothing is immendable. We can always be fixed no matter what happens. Buck and my dad can prove that.
In the call of the wild primitivity is presented as the authentic and dominant side of being.
Perseverance is the will someone has to do hard things in order to survive or achieve a goal.Buck had to fight to survive even if it was tough and everything was against him.My mom had to persevere in a new school when she knew nothing about it.Both Buck and my mom had to persevere through hard things and fight to get through they’re conflict.
(28) First, Buck begins by hunting wild game. (29) For example, Buck kills a black bear and a bull moose and eats from their corpses. (30) Since Buck can kill his own meat and consume it, he is nearly wild. (31) Second, Yeehat Indians attack John Thornton’s camp unleashing Buck's wildness. (32) For instance, Buck, who no longer recognizes Man’s laws, slaughters the Yeehats despite their weapons, “…they heard a fearful roar and saw rushing upon them an animal the like of which they had never seen before. (33) Buck, a hurricane of fury, hurled himself on them in a frenzy to destroy.” (35) Since Buck can attack and kill Man, he is now wild. (36) Last, Buck joins a wolf pack. (37) For example, Buck is confronted by a wolf pack and must battle his way into the pack. (38) Since Buck will eventually lead and pack and pass on his superior natural traits to his offspring, Buck, a descendant of the wild, has answered the call of the wild. (39) In conclusion, Buck has found his true identity as a wild animal.
First of all, the protagonist of The Call of the Wild, Buck, is a complete alpha dog. Realistically, nobody can catch up to Bucks skill level. Buck’s muscles became as hard as iron, and he grew callous to all ordinary
First, in the book Game Changers, the main character Ben faces adversity. Ben is a short little league baseball player who gets hit by a blazing-fast fastball. Since this has been first time ever being hit by a ball, he is now scared of every pitcher he faces. Ben has overcome adversity by “deciding to man-up and not be scared of the baseball”. The next time Ben overcomes adversity is when he is in a massive hitting slump (which means he’s not getting base hits in baseball). Ben shows “perseverance by not giving up like many kids would”. Ben eventually battles his way out of the slump. This is just another example of overcoming adversity.
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
In The Call of the Wild, Buck was not cared for like he should’ve been, and was overworked causing him to work through exhaustion. Buck was taken from his home, and went into a new lifestyle of being a sled dog. He had never known what it was like to work from his glorious home on the
In the novel When the Legends Die and in the film Dances with Wolves symbolism is very important. Throughout both of them the used symbols are very similar but have very different meanings. In the movie, Dances with Wolves the wolf, Two Socks, and the horse, Cisco, are animal symbols, like the bear in When the Legends Die.
Most of the masters were rough on him until he got to John Thornton, his favorite and final master. John was a gold prospector in the North and he valued Buck. “He saved Buck from death and Buck returns the favor to Thornton by giving him fierce loyalty” (sparknotes.com). Now Buck and John know that they will take care of each other. Later in the story, while on a long journey, Thornton’s camp was attacked by the Yeehat Indians and Thornton was killed. Buck came back to the camp and saw what had happened. He started to attack the natives in revenge. He killed some, but he was very emotionally injured because he lost the master he had grown to love.
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...
As he starts to understand the law of club and fang, Buck lands in Dyea Beach, his first night at camp Curly (A fellow dog purchased with Buck by Perrault) dies.When the dogs forsaken Curly’s body after the fight, “But she lay there limp and lifeless in the bloody, trampled snow, almost literally torn to pieces, this word half-breed standing over her and cursing horribly. The scene often came to book to trouble him in his sleep. So that was the way. No fair play. Once down that was the end of you” (London 32). When Curly dies in a dogfight against a more experienced husky, he was torn to shreds by other surrounding dogs. This is called the wolf-manner of fighting. The wolf-manner of fighting is not only to strike and leap away, but to win by strength, decisiveness, and to gain from other weaknesses. Curly was the first dog that Buck would see killed, he is so traumatized by this event that he promises himself that he would never lose. By that changing himself to represent less a follower and more of leader, and as much as he tries not to develop attachment to humans or other dogs. As Buck changes and adapts to his new environment he keeps this promise and figures out a ways to harness his power. Later on, the Yeehat tribe invaded John Thornton’s camp and killed him, Buck leaps into action and kills a couple members
My father passed away in 1991, two weeks before Christmas. I was 25 at the time but until then I had not grown up. I was still an ignorant youth that only cared about finding the next party. My role model was now gone, forcing me to reevaluate the direction my life was heading. I needed to reexamine some of the lessons he taught me through the years.