Influence Of Buck In The Call Of The Wild

Buck, the main dog in The Call of the Wild, was a St. Bernard/Scotch Shepherd dog living the perfect life in the sun-kissed Santa Clara valley. Before the wild, he was in the kind of lifestyle where he was treated with anything and everything any dog would have. He was healthy, fed constantly, living in a nice home, and feeling loved. Although, for Buck, his cozy and happy life comes to an end where he is secretly sold to Alaska by one of the workers on the estate without anybody noticing. There, he undergoes a series of hardships such as stealing food to survive or working extremely hard for so his owners wouldn’t yell at him which was hard on Buck since it put a lot of pressure on him. Buck’s exposure to the environment in the wild did not only affect others in the wild, but strongly affected Buck himself, reaching to the point where it made him develop into a whole new dog. …show more content…
It’s very difficult for Buck to change the way he was living in a short amount of time. In The Call of the Wild, Buck saw Spitz steal bacon from the workers and Buck was later influenced by that act and ended up doing the same thing (24). For instance, living in the wild influences people to do these things, according to HubPages, ¨This would mean that a person is not really born with a personality at all, it will be the people in his or her life or society that will shape the kind of person he or she will become¨(Nature vs. nurture). When living in a certain environment, you start to adapt to it and that’s exactly what happened to Buck. Seeing Spitz steal the bacon impacted Buck to do the same which is how the environment and people around him changed him. Before the wild, Buck would never steal anything, but clearly this environment Buck is living in has changed him which is what nurture is all