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The Call of the Wild by: Jack London (Part A3) Often in literature a particular setting contributes to the understanding of the major conflict. Such a work of literature is The call of the wild by: Jack London, a novel about a dog named Buck, who is the main character of the story and his adventure from a quiet and rural home in the Santa Clara valley in California to this bitterly cold Alaskan wilderness …

…novel. With out the conditions of the Alaskan wilderness, the constant abuse from his masters and the howl from the forest, Buck would have died on the trail long ago, like many other domestic animals do, but instead he adapted to his changing settings and surroundings around him, and evolved into this dominant creature from which he can now live out his life under his true calling, that call being “The call of the wild.”