The Call of the Wild Fate and Free Will Quotes Page 4
Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph)
| Quote #10 It was inevitable that they should go short on dog-food. But they hastened it by overfeeding, bringing the day nearer when underfeeding would commence. (5.37) |
Ignorance in the face of destiny often leads to the downfall of both men and animals in the novel.
| Quote #11 "And they told you true," John Thornton answered. "The bottom's likely to drop out at any moment. Only fools, with the blind luck of fools, could have made it. I tell you straight, I wouldn't risk my carcass on that ice for all the gold in Alaska." (5.54) |
Some wiser men are attuned to inevitable events.
| Quote #12 Thornton went on whittling. It was idle, he knew, to get between a fool and his folly; while two or three fools more or less would not alter the scheme of things. (5.56) |
Thornton is wise because of his ability to recognize the inevitable – that which we cannot change.
