Thesis #1: One of the main themes in the first two chapters of The Call of the Wild is that men are just as greedy, violent and competitive as dogs when put in harsh circumstances.
The Call of the Wild is a story of transformation in which the old Buck—the civilized, moral Buck—must adjust to the harsher realities of life in the frosty North, where survival is the only imperative. Kill or be killed is the only morality among the dogs of the Klondike, as Buck realizes from the moment he steps off the boat and watches the violent death of his friend Curly. The wilderness is a cruel, uncaring world, where only the strong prosper. It is, one might say, a perfect Darwinian world, and London’s depiction of it owes much to Charles Darwin, who proposed the theory of evolution to explain the development of life on Earth and envisioned a natural world defined by fierce competition for scarce resources. The term often used to describe Darwin’s theory, although he did not coin it, is “the survival of the fittest,” a phrase that describes Buck’s experience perfectly. In the old, warmer world, he might have sacrificed his life out of moral considerations; now, however, he abandons any such considerations in order to survive. Buck is a savage creature, in a sense, and hardly a moral one, but London, like Nietzsche, expects us to applaud this ferocity. His novel suggests that there is no higher destiny for man or beast than to struggle, and win, in the battle for mastery.
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Answer:
At the story's conclusion, Dillard reveals that being chased made her happy in some ways. To quote Annie at the end of the book, "If in that snowy backyard, the driver of the black Buick had cut off our heads, Mikey’s and mine, I would have died happy." Dillard isn't telling her readers to be foolish for fun. The author says it's okay if you get in trouble occasionally because being happy says the author. Annie knew it was wrong to throw snowballs at passing cars, but she did it anyway. The author exaggerates the thrilling parts of the story. Dillard describes the three runners' many twists and turns to help readers understand Annie's exhilaration. Dillard ends the essay without explaining what the man does after calling the kids "foolish." The author shifts focus to how she felt rather than what the enraged businessman did. Annie Dillard writes for readers to relate to and learn from.
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Uhm, if you'd like, I could paraphrase it? I can't tell what exactly you'd like me to do, and I wanted to let you know that <em>I can edit this, so if it's not correct, I can change it. Also, what are 'stirrings'?</em>
"For a minute, he recalled his dream again. The dream was delightful. He was confused, he thought that he enjoyed feeling that his mother had called Stirrings. He remembered when he woke up, he wanted to feel the Stirrings again."
<em>Please, if this is incorrect, don't refrain to tell me.</em>
