Call_Of_The_Wild_-_Thematic_Summary

Call Of The Wild - Thematic Summary More important than the actual events of the novel are many of the themes expressed throughout the story. These include Buck’s gradual transition from pampered housedog to powerful sled dog to wild beast, greed and the mistreatment of animals, loyalty and love, and even what "The Call of the Wild" actually means. Throughout the book, Buck would hear a howling from the woods, or saw visions of his ancestors in his sleep. He had looked into the campfire and seen back generations, to the wild dogs who were his ancestors, and the hairy men who were their masters. He recognized how their lives connected them. Something within him longed to return to the state that these ancestors lived in, to answer the call of the wild. As the novel continued, he had given into this call more and more often, and each time, to a greater extent. He experienced physical changes, such as the hardening of his muscles, and many emotional changes, the desire to join his wild brother, and the dislike for his former life in the Santa Clara Valley. At one point in the book, Buck leaned his head back and gave a long, low wolf howl. wild, buck, call, dogs, dog, very, thornton, team, sled, much, loyal, life, go, experienced, even, true, through, themselves, point, one, novel, men, man, loyalty, lives, knew, human, harder, greed, gold, gave, being, beast, ancestors, wolf, within