... felt before, "the call of the wild". This was not strange to him; it was like an instinct. London takes Buck and personifies him as a human being with thoughts, feelings, and emotions. Buck was a large dog, a mix of St. Bernard and Scotch shepherd. (In the beginning, London expresses that Buck is friendly dog who is trusting of men ... he learns that he must do what he is taught.) Eventually, Buck learns to love his work, and when he is in the hands of Thornton he is wild, but he knows that he is safe. Buck turns into a different animal by the end of the book. He is not domestic, he is w...

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