Change In Mark Twain's The Call Of The Wild

Leaving home and having to adapt to survive in a new area, under new and different circumstances than ever before requires perseverance and adaption. In The Call of The Wild Buck had to leave his peaceful life at home. He had to alter his way of life to survive in the new life he was sold into. He was responsible for leading a sled team of dogs across the Yukon Territory. However, my father had to lead a large group of soldiers across the desert of Iraq. In contrast, my father also had to leave his peaceful home life. In like manner, My father and Buck both had to leave their families. They both were responsible for leading a group through an area they had never been in before. Change is part of life. To deal with change we must adapt …show more content…
Buck was taken away from his calm home. In order to survive, Buck needed to adapt. He had to lead a team of sled dogs through an unfamiliar area. After a short time in the Yukon, Buck soon learned that people didn’t treat dogs the same as Judge Miller did. Hal, Charles and Mercedes killed off almost all their dogs because they were unable keep up with the work load. Dave was suffering an illness, instead of caring for him or nurturing him back to health, the scotch half breed shot him. Almost all the owners work the dogs until they can no longer function, then they sell them. Eventually the dogs bodies cannot take anymore of the work, then the owners end up killing them. One of the first complications in The Call of The Wild Buck faced was, functioning in the Yukon territory under the new circumstances. He was not used to the lack of food. He began to starve himself and begun to appreciate the amount of food he is given. Buck was not familiar with sleeping in such cold conditions. Buck then watched what the other dogs did to sleep in the cold. He followed them by example. He habituated so he could survive in the bitter climate. Towards the end of the book Buck’s owners, Hal, Charles and Mercedes knew nothing about running a sled dog team. They had a very heavy load and only had six dogs. The dogs that were on their team had no experience as sled dogs. Buck was the one dog on the team that has experience