... 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, and fictions of devolution (Rothberg, 575). This would become a conflict in Buck's relationship with John. As John ... while he ate and slept and following him from night to day. But eventually, the call of the wild would return. As the narrator states, "Buck...

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