CChapter 2 Summary “The Law of Club and Fang” Summary Ingredients: Who: Buck Where/When: Yukon Territory / Fall 1897 What: How to adapt/survive in the primitive Northland. How: Buck learns how to sleep (from Billie), how to steal and not get caught (from Pike), how to work in the traces (from Dave and Sol-leks), how to change his eating habits, and that there is no mercy (from Curly). Once you're down, you're dead! Summary: Buck has been taken from civilization into a wild, primitive place, and his first day in the North is unpleasant. He discovers that both the dogs and men around him are cruel and violent.
This saying basically means that whoever can adapt to their surroundings will live longer than those who can’t. In The Call of the Wild by Jack London, we are reminded many times of how we (as a species) need to adapt to survive. In the first chapter of this book, Buck is dognapped from the comfort of Judge Miller’s house by a man he trusts, and is thrown into the Yukon, a land of brutal dogs, savage men and laws of its own. Many would not be able to get by in these juxtaposing places, but Buck is able to. Buck has to learn to change himself so he can survive in
As time goes on he reminisces of the time he left his father in the snow. As he sat there awaiting his fate, he is surround by a pack of wolves. At first he fights them off, then he just gives up. “All men must die… It was the way of life” (12), so he just sits there and accepts his fate. London uses the plot of the story, the character, and the setting as a great example of the naturalism worldview James Sire talks about in his book, The Universe Next Door.
Some characteristics of Naturalism include character’s lives that are dictated by passion, heredity, or instinct, heroic actions, violent deaths, and a plot that has “chronicle of despair” (Campbell). Naturalism shows characteristics of instinct and passion; Burk shows passion when he discovers his love for the woods after John Thorton saves his life. Burk also shows instinct when he becomes the alpha of his dog pack and later when he reverts from being loyal to John Thorton back to being wolf-like. Another situation where Buck shows instinct is when he fought with Spitz, “He fought by instinct but he could fight by head as well” (London 34.) This shows that Buck could judge when to use instinct or smarts.
With the working bow, he could catch and kill fish and birds to eat their meat and make feathered arrows. Later, a tornado hits close to Brian’s shelter and destroys his shelter and puts out his fire. It also throws his tools into the lake. He immediately works on making a new fire, knowing that fire is needed to survive in the wilderness: “He worked slowly, but even so, with his new skill he had a fire going in less than an hour” (Paulsen 150). With fire, he is protected from animals.
Throughout “On the Rainy River”, Tim’s influences, Elroy and his hometown, ultimately drive him to make the same decision, even though they represent very different things. Tim’s home-life is filled with pressures and responsibilities that at first he cannot handle. When the draft notice comes, all these forces initially push him away, but later, help him to make the decision to return and face the draft. When Tim describes his existence in Worthington, Minnesota, it becomes obvious that he is not extremely fond of his life thus far. As a declotter at the Armour meat-packing plant, Tim’s days are tough.
To show him he can’t keep being a bully. When Frank finds out that Kenny shooting that dog was only taking orders, he let Tub know that he basically shot his own friend for no reason. So the consequence of Kenny’s bullying? Tub shoots him in his stomach. Due to their where bout’s it takes them on a long road trip to find a hospital because they couldn’t get an ambulance out that far in the country and all was occupied.
After Rainsford discovered that General Zaroff has been hunting humans, he ends up fighting for his life after general Zaroff challenges him. General Zaroff has been hunting for his entire life, but Rainsford hates hunting. He now gets to feel what it is like to be the hunter and the huntee. Ironically he ends up killing one of general Zaroff dogs and Ivan. Rainsford used a pit trap to get the dog, and he uses a knife trap to lacerate and kill Ivan.
They provide protection, companionship and many services that make their lives much easier. Unfortunately, even these well- intended actions by pit bulls are under fire. For instance, Vietnam veteran Allen Grider resided in Aurora, Colorado with his service dog, an American Pit Bull Terrier named Precious. Because of Aurora’s breed specific legislation on pit bulls, Precious was taken away from Mr. Grider, leaving him with no one to help him with his daily needs. Mr. Grider filed a lawsuit against the city of Aurora, his case was tried, and he won.
He abuses Huck verbally as well as physically and soon shows that he is a brutal drunkard. After his father keeps him locked inside a cabin in the woods, Huck decides to escape and uses a pig’s blood to fake his own death. This act indicates that Huck’s moral development is still at its beginning and that he doesn’t care about the emotions of other people. This attitude will change later when he plays a trick on Jim on the river. But for now, while he is carrying out his plan, he doesn’t even think about what all his friends and family will go through when they hear about his death.