Ignorance In The Call Of The Wild

Finally, permanent hopelessness causes individuals to develop an irrational thinking pattern which is the main factor that differentiates a human from an animal. David is finally captured by the people of the new civilization, and finds out that the Queen wants his death, since he is a survivor of the past. He is one of the “Gentiles” who made God angry and punish everyone else. While David is trying to escape his death, he begins to explain how, “For sometime [he] believed it was [him] who was dead, not they. That the rest of the world had carried out without [him]; that the story [he’d] been told was merely the stuff of hellfire” (Wright 286). At this point in book, David has already been subjected to irrational actions and isolation. The lack of hope along with no …show more content…
The viewer know from a previous scene in the movie that Kris never kept any images in his house. All of this leads to the conclusion that either the sequence is a hallucination, dream, or set in another reality. Kris even seems to imply that if he is dead, it is acceptable. It is non-instinctive for a person to not care about one’s own survival. Ignorance is one of the traits which affects humans on a lesser degree than animals, but when Kris begins to embrace ignorance, along with his isolation and irrational actions, he is dehumanized. As the movie moves forward, the difference between him and an intelligent animal decreases. The factor which initially causes him to become like this is hopelessness. Even in “Suicidal Ideation and Behaviour”, Korcak discusses how hopelessness can be recognized and therefore be seen as a sign of suicide ideation: “ Of key importance is the degree to which an adolescent lacks hope that his/her situation and feelings will improve in the future (eg, “Do you have hope that things will get better?”). The presence of significant hopelessness should alert the clinician to increased suicidal risk” (Korczak