Chapter 1 Blog

Chapter 1 Blog

I think that it does challenge the ideas of human nature. I have never really thought about animals having all of these feelings. I never thought about the fact that animals can adapt to their surroundings so well like buck has. London gives us all a different perspective of how an animal would see things and how they feel as they go through all of these changes. He is showing us that animals are much smarter than we think. They are always aware of their surroundings and try to show that they are dominant to others. Even though this isn’t being told from Bucks point of view I feel as though he really is the one telling the story. All of the tragic events that he goes through are showing us that animals are more similar to us than we think. We have to grow up learning rules and learning how to listen to our parents. We learn from an early age what is wrong and what is right. That is what Buck had to go through. He was living his life very luxurious and got whatever he wanted, that’s what he knew, but when he got kidnapped he had to learn that he must listen and have respect for the man in the red sweater or else he would go through pain and keep getting hit. He had to learn how to be able to sleep comfortably at night and keep himself warm, which is what we do as infants is learn when to cry when we want something.