"...and I love that man like he is my master." - Jagroop Singh Jack London's "The Call of the Wild" (1903), is the story of Buck, a St. Bernard- Scotch Collie mix, and the abuse and hardships he suffers ... which voiced their woe and what to them was the meaning of the stillness, and the cold, and dark" (London, 14). Abraham Rothberg, in his article Land Dogs and Sea Wolves: A Jack London Dilemma (1980), states that London had gone on a retreat before writing The Call of the Wild and experienced a moment of atavism, reversion to type, ... taken into John Thornton's care are a trio of inexp...

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