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As this chapter begins we learn a bit of the history about John Thornton and how he came to be camped next to the river The previous ter Thornton had frozen his feet and his partners had left him behind to recover During both Bucks and Thorntons recoveries there are two other of Thorntons dogs Skeet and Nig who are very friendly towards Buck who is surprised he expected them to show some signs of jealousy Yet unlike the other two dogs Buck does not force Thorntons attention upon him Buck is content to lie at a distance watching Thornton with love and admiration In fact for a long time after Thornton rescues Buck Buck is uncomfortable when Thornton is out of his sight because Buck remembers how people like Perrault and Franois and even the Scotch halfbreed all good masters had one day suddenly disappeared leaving Buck finally at the mercy of Hal Charles and Mercedes London however does not suddenly make Buck into an allgood ideal onedimensional dog He says that in spite of the great love which Buck has for John Thornton Buck still retains a strong sense of the primitive In other words Bucks faithfulness and devotion qualities ociated with a civilized society are apparent in his conduct toward John Thornton but Buck still retains his protective instincts for the wild and his mastery of the primitive London also reminds us that Bucks body is scarred scored by the teeth of many dogs so much so that other dogs would quickly acknowledge his supremacy in a fight Buck had indeed learned well the law of club and fang he must master because to show mercy was a weakness Mercy did not exist in the primordial life or be ed eat or be eaten was the law During these times Buck relishes living with John Thornton yet there are other deeper claims to him also From far deep down in the forest he often hears wild sounds and calls that are mysteriously thrilling and compelling He often ponders the nature of these mysterious calls and he often thinks of running toward them except for the fact that the love of John Thornton drew him back to the fire again When Thorntons partners Hans and Pete arrive with the longawaited raft Buck refuses to acknowledge them except as friends of Thornton He feels loyalty only to Thornton At this point London shifts his point of view from Buck to the character of John Thornton and we discover that during their dual recuperation Thornton develops a great admiration for Buck One day therefore after Hans and Petes arrival Thornton and his friends are sitting on the edge of a chasm into which Thornton suddenly orders Buck to jump Evidently Thornton does this in order to demonstrate to Hans and Pete that Buck is totally devoted to him In Londons words The next instant he Thorton was grappling with Buck on the extreme edge Later on in Circle City Buck has yet another opportunity to demonstrate his devotion to John Thornton An eviltempered and malicious man named Black Burton is bullying a young tenderfoot in a bar a tenderfoot is an inexperienced person in the frontier When John Thornton tries to prevent a nasty fight Burton strikes Thornton solidly and sends him sprawling Immediately Buck attacks the man and even though Burton is able to protect himself from two different lunges by the dog Buck is finally able to tear open the mans throat A meeting is immediately called and it is decided that Buck had sufficient provocation for defending his master against violence Later on that year Buck again proves his worth by again saving Thorntons life While attempting to maneuver some dangerous rapids Thorntons boat overturns flinging him into the cold swirling water which in turn sweeps him into the midst of such wild rapids that not even a strong swimmer could survive Buck does not hesitate to act he swims out to Thornton who knows that they are not strong enough to conquer the turbulent rapids Thus he orders Buck back to the shore and even though Buck hates to desert his master he nevertheless obeys Thorntons commands Once on shore Hans and Pete tie a long rope to Bucks collar and send him back into the water with it Buck launches boldly out into the stream but finds that he cannot travel straight enough and he misses Thornton by only a few yards Again he returns to shore where the rope is once again attached to him He had miscalculated once but he would not be guilty of it a second time This time he reaches Thornton who is able to grab the rope and almost strangling and suffocating the man and the dog both bruised and battered are dragged back to the shore There they discover that Buck has two broken ribs and Thornton announces that they will not break camp until Bucks ribs are fully healed A third episode concerning Bucks extraordinary character occurs sometime later and it is such a feat that Bucks fame spreads throughout all Alaska It begins in a saloon where some men are boasting of the exploits of their dogs Thornton is intrigued and is driven to maintain that Buck can pull a sled with a pounds on it Furthermore he says Buck can break the sled loose even if it is frozen fast and furthermore that he can pull it a yards A man named Matthewson bets Thornton that Buck cannot do such an incredible feat in fact he is willing to bet a s that Buck cannot do it Thornton at this point momentarily becomes unsure whether or not Buck can actually perform such an enormous and appalling task and he is confused as to what to do since neither he nor Hans nor Pete has a s At that moment however an old friend of Thorntons Jim OBrien walks into the saloon and offers to lend Thornton a s The bet is on and all of the occupants of the town pour into the streets the men all placing great odds that Buck cannot budge the sled When it is discovered that the sleds runners are in fact frozen to the ice and Thornton is not able to break the sled loose the odds soar tremendously Matthewson however offers to increase his wager by another at three to one odds but Thornton Hans and Pete are able to raise only two s which they bet against Matthewsons six As the contest is about to begin John Thornton kneels beside Bucks head whispering quiet statements of endearment As you love me Buck As you love me Buck answers this plea by taking his masters mittened hands between his jaws pressing in with his teeth it was the answer in terms not of speech but of love Thornton orders the dog to MUSH and so Buck mustering every last bit of strength he has every muscle and sinew straining under the tremendous heaves forward But one of Bucks feet slips and he suddenly falls down in the snow Yet because of his amazing resiliency he stands up and pulls even er and finally he is able to move the sled inch by inch foot by foot until he finally covers the yards previously marked off as being the finish line The crowd cheers and in appreciation Thornton kneels by the dog The famed King of Skookum Bench offers to pay Thornton a s for Buck but Thornton rejects the offer Here in this chapter then just before Buck will return to the primitive world London shows us the love the devotion the affection and the cooperation that can exist between a man and a dog Under certain circumstances especially after a man has saved a dogs life the dog can be expected to save his masters reputation Chapter The Sounding of the Call Summary So far this novel has depicted Bucks complete transformation from the Southland civilized dog living in the peaceful society of Judge Millers estate in Chapter into a dog that through his strength and instinct and cunning is quickly able to master the law of club and fang and then in the middle chapter of the novel we saw Buck becoming the master of the entire dogsled team In contrast in the last half of the novel we have seen him almost destroyed by the incompetency and ineptness of three people of the Southland Hal Charles and Mercedes In the last chapter we saw proof of how thoroughly Buck became a creature of deep loyalty and admiration to a man fully deserving this devotion This final chapter then will present yet another view of Buck his complete reversion to the primitive or in the terms of this novel his final surrender to the call of the wild Returning to the narrative we realize anew that John Thornton is now in possession of sixteen s Thus he and Pete and Hans are able to pay off their debts which they do and then the three of them take off in search of a fabled lost gold mine a mine which many have heard of and many have searched for but most have died searching for it Yet the legend of the lost mine persists Dying men had sworn to it clinching their testimony with nuggets that were unlike any known grade of gold in the Northland Even though the lost mine might be fictitious or nonexistent yet John Thornton and Buck are delighted to start out on a journey through infinite wandering in strange places The search for the lost gold mine is a traditional search which fills many adventure novels of Western literature likewise the search for the fabled Fountain of Youth as well as the search for the Holy Grail are other quests well known in Western literature In each search the participants have to undergo many trials and tribulations but it is the quest itself that is ultimately as important as the discovery In this particular quest Thornton Hans and Pete move farther and farther away from civilization and thus they are immersed deeper and deeper into natures primordial conditions Meanwhile Buck devotedly follows his master in search of the lost gold mine and likewise he is brought closer and closer to the primordial wilderness and its primitive existence As they travel they almost always rely on their own ingenuity for food and when food is scarce they go without There is no alternative Months p and as London says they twisted through the unchartered vastness where no men were Once they do find the shambles of an old hunting lodge and there they find remnants that indicate that other men have been here before Then in the spring they find the place where the large legendary gold nuggets are supposed to be The men pan for gold and in Londons words they heaped the treasure up Buck spends many long hours close to the fire and he remembers the shortlegged hairy man who appeared in Chapter The overwhelming memory which Buck has of this hairy man concerns Bucks being constantly frightened and along with the memory of this apelike figure is the call of the wild a call which Buck constantly hears in the forest It causes strange and unknown feelings to rise within him He is aware of some kind of primitive yearnings which he cannot identify Employing the philosophy of Naturalism London is apparently trying to juxtapose the dream of the ape man as being symbolic of the primitive element in all humankind thus this figure represents a kind of primitive ancestor calling to Buck imploring him to respond and to return to the call of the wild After his dream of the hairy man Buck becomes ever more entranced by the call of the wild It becomes finally almost irresistible Sometimes according to London Buck springs up from sleeping with a start and from the forest he hears a longdrawn howl unlike any noise made by a husky dog One time he even follows the sound and comes upon an open place in a grove where he sees a lean timber wolf howling at the sky Buck is much larger than this wolf and so he chases the wolf into one blind channel after another but he does so only to let the wolf know that he intends it no harm Afterward running through the woods with the wolf Buck knows at last that he is answering the call running sidebyside with his wood brother It is almost as if he feels that he has done the same thing before but in another world now only a dim memory In the midst of his reintroduction and reimmersion into the wilderness however Buck suddenly stops and remembers John Thornton and he retraces his steps back to the camp where he finds John Thornton amused by Bucks actions These scenes are of course shog Buck constantly fluctuating between being a part of civilization as represented by Thornton and concomitantly shog the fascinating lure of the call of the wild represented by the baying of wild wolves
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