The Call Of The Wild Analysis

In the adventure fiction, The Call of the Wild by Jack London, Buck, the main protagonist of the novel, goes through one of the most miserable times of his life. He is captured by Perrault and François, as both see potential in Buck as a new lead dog. However, they don't plan to just use Buck as a lead dog, they plan to put him on a grueling quest to find the Klondike region of Canada. During many points the expedition, London does something not many people do with their characters, constantly fail. Most authors would make their character fail in their goal once or twice, however, Buck repeatedly fails at his given goal. Buck is constantly filled with defeat in every chapter of the novel, but that doesn’t stop him from succeeding in the future. Nevertheless, Buck achieves something no other dog or human ever could during this time. Live. By the end of the novel, all of Buck’s …show more content…
Like all messages or themes in a book, novel, TV show, or movie, it is subjective to everyone. Every single person who reads The Call of the Wild will get a different message from it and they may even disagree with other themes. A portion of the people who read this novel will stand up and say no, failure is not the only way to succeed. Most of the times, succeeding in life occurs on the first try. The failure didn’t happen first, so how could anyone learn from it. Certainly, no man or dog or any animal is perfect at one particular skill right from the moment one is born.
Buck was born into a regular home life, but he wasn’t fit for king right when he was born. He must have failed at some encounter with all the bugs, so he learned from that failure and became a king. “...for he was king-king over all creeping, crawling, flying things of Judge Miller’s place, humans included,”(London 3). Something must have happened to Buck for him to do such a thing not only to bugs but to humans