【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 tself, with the abrupt change of living environment. Buck abandoned the traditional moral standard resolutely He now embraced as absolutely useless and definitely harmful as evil. Moreover, the civilized Buck versus the savage world can take his kidnapping as an example.By means of metaphors, we can see that dogs as human。 human as dogs。 the man in the red sweater bees the top dog, to whom every animal must yield.To state it in concrete details, it goes like this, it is defined as learning how to avoid breaking the rules of the society so as to evade ultimate death. Buck’s Mixed CharacterBuck kept dignity while he was in the face of human but crude figures such as Manuel and the saloonkeeper。 Buck39。s fastidious nature, so out of place in a dog。 the uselessness of all civilized teachings in the world of the wild. Although he was caught in a dilemma, he did not lose his dignity. Take the dog’s attitude to the man in the red sweater for instance. Buck learned a lesson from the brutal performance administrated by the man that a man with a club is a master to be obeyed. After relentless beating from the man, Buck allowed the man to bring him water to drink and food to eat。 he even ate the food from the man’s hand. Nevertheless,“ he was beaten(he knew that)。 but he was not broken.” 8 Buck did not do as some dogs wagged their tails and licked his hand, that is to say, he did not and would never fawn upon this mangod.Dog as Buck was, he was not able to stand being laughed at by human beings, that is to say, and Buck is a dog of selfesteem. To be laughed at was a shameful thing to the dog because he regarded that act as a serious degradation to his dignity. Take one thing that happened on the Naruhal’s(the ship’s) in a northern part for instance. Francois took Buck, together with his teammates to the dock. And there, Buck met something entirely new.“At the first step upon the cold surface, Buck’s feet sank into white mushy something like mud.He sprang back with a snort. More of his white stuff that was falling through the air.He shook himself, but more of it told upon him, and he sniffed it curiously, and then licked some up on his tongue. Bit like fire, and the next instance was gone.”9 This was his first encounter with snow. At first, it puzzled him, but the moment some onlookers laughed at him, Buck just felt ashamed consciously or unconsciously. He attached much importance to the ways in which he was behaving and lest that should cause him to feel ashamed of himself with his masters, being laughed at, exposing his weakness. Under any circumstance, he respected himself and deserved to be respected by others. Endurance with Those Vicious Men and Sled DogsSeveral days later, a man named Perraut bought Buck as well as Curly, who was a good—natured Newfoundland. However, Buck’s fate never turned good through this transform, as this new master was a short—tempered man. In addition, Buck also came across other partners, such as Dave and Spitz. But neither his new master nor those seeming friends treated him as real friend. When he first shipped to the north, he watched Curly brutally killed by a husky. Buck turned to his primitive instincts more and more as he struggled to survive in the wild North. He avoided fights, but Spitz became a dangerous rival, showing his teeth whenever possible. When Buck was kidnapped, he attempted to attack one of the men, who has seized him, only to be beaten repeatedly with a club. This moment, when his fighting spirit was temporarily broken, along with the brutal killing of Curly by a group of vicious sled dogs, symbolizing Buck’s departure from the old, fortable life of a pet in a warm climate, and his entrance into a new world where the only law was“ the law of club and fang.” The rules of the civilized and uncivilized worlds are, of course, extremely different—in the wild, many conflicts are resolved through bloody fights rather than through reasoned mediation. But the novel suggests that what is important in both worlds is to understand and abide by the rules which that world has set up, and it is only when those rules are broken that we see true savagery and disrespect for life.4. The Real Adventure in North The Debut of His WildernessWhen Buck arrived in the wild, his primordial instinct did not awaken immediately, and he needed a great deal of external help before he was suited to life there. Help arrived in realizations about the very different rules that govern the world outside of civilization, but also in the support of the pack of which he bees a part. Two dogs in particular, Dave and Solleks, after having established their seniority, instructed Buck in the intricacies of sled pulling. Lifeanddeath battles punctuate The Call of the Wild’s narrative, serving as reminders of the dangers of life in the Klondike, but more importantly as markers of Buck’s gradual integration into his new environment. Furthermore, the group members took pride in their work, even though they were serving men. When they make trips in good time, they congratulate themselves—they all participated in a mon enterprise. Also, it is out of his selfrespect that Buck refused to take a secondary position among the dog pack. The Outbreak of His Instinct of CompetitionThe novel initially charted his descent from his position as the monarch of Judge Miller’s place in civilization to a servile status in which it was his duty to pull the sled for humans. But as he became more a part of the wild, Buck began to understand the hierarchy of the pack that pulled the sled, and he began to gain authority over the pack. After his duel with Spitz, he was harnessed into the