Buck experienced feelings that brought him closer and closer to feeling like a wild animal, and less like a tamed, domestic, house pet. “So peremptorily did these shades beckon him, that each day mankind and the claims of mankind skipped farther from him” (London, 76). Buck continues to adventure out into the woods, as his human owner hungrily searches for gold. He feels the Call of his ancestors get even stronger. He wants to hunt, …show more content…
He pictured their lives through his eyes, as if they were living almost vicariously through him. “Sometimes as he crouched there, blinking dreamily at the flames, it seemed that the flames were of another fire, and that as he crouched by this other fire he saw another different man from the half-breed cook before him” (London, 76). When Buck spends the little time he has to rest by the fire, he floats into a dream state. He’s able to imagine a caveman, taking the place of his real owner, the Scotch half-breed. The caveman in the vision is accompanied by the twinkling eyes of his wolf ancestors, from thousands of years ago, when man and dog had just met, and were only beginning to be