Call of the Wild
... Thornton is a good master and treats him well, but exposes him to the wild. Buck becomes intensely amused with the way of the wild, and associates himself with wolves, but he still returns to Thornton periodically. ... Conflict There are two major conflicts in “The Call of the Wild”. ... His second master leads him to the second conflict; his development from a domestic dog to a wild beast. ... As Buck becomes more and more exposed to the way of the wild, the wolves, and how we can benefit from it and enjoy, he becomes more enticed to seek it. The wild is constantly calling for him. ... Buck learns the ways of the wild through his trials on his journey, but by the title of the book, and from what the book suggests is that Buck actually recovers these things.