Would you be able to survive in the wild? The Call of the Wild is an adventure fiction story about a dog named Buck who gets taken to the Yukon at the time of the gold rush. Buck changes from a domestic pet to being a wild animal. He has many different owners over the course of the story but eventually he meets the one he loves the most, John Thornton. The theme throughout the story is survival of the fittest. Buck learned how to survive by watching other dogs. Buck first got to the Yukon he watched one of the dogs on his team get killed in a fight. “He had never seen dogs fight as these wolfish creatures fought and his first experience taught him an unforgettable lesson. (London 16).” Buck learned not to get knocked down in a fight like that
