Question

3. On page 14 of The Call of the Wild, Jack London writes, "In vague ways he remembered back to the youth of the breed." This statement is
an example of
A. the racial unconscious.
B. survival of the fittest.
C. natural selection.
D. the will to power.

Answer 1

On page 14 of The Call of the Wild, Jack London writes, "In vague ways he remembered back to the youth of the breed." This statement is

an example of the racial unconscious.

Answer: Option A.

Explanation:

The Call of the Wild is an adventurous novel authored by Jack London. The story is based on a central character who is a dog named ‘Buck.’

When the writer writes, ‘In vague ways he remembered back to the youth of the breed’, he is referring to the term racial unconscious. It means an act of remembering something but without any awareness. Every human being shares some ancient memories which are somewhere stored in the unconscious part of their mind.

In the novel we can see that the author remembers his days to the youth of breed in some indistinct ways, thus referring to racial unconscious.