Significance Of Buck's Primordial Beast In The Call Of The Wild

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In this amazing book Buck finds himself, with the help of his ancestors and memories. He has gone through all of these trials in his job as a snow dog, but he eventually gets free from that and overcomes that with a new relationship with the world. As Buck is getting stronger, mentally and physically, his dominant primordial beast is growing stronger as well.
The dominant primordial beast and how it grows inside of Buck. ”The dominant primordial beast was strong in Buck, and under the fierce conditions of trial life grew and grew”(London, 25). This means as Buck goes on, the beast will keep growing.
The dogs started to be afraid of Buck, they would get away from him every time he walked near them. Buck becomes his primordial beast when Spitz

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