The Call of the Wild Suffering Quotes Page 1
Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph)
| Quote #1 Dazed, suffering intolerable pain from throat and tongue, with the life half throttled out of him, Buck attempted to face his tormentors. (1.21) |
After he is first taken from his life in California, Buck’s suffering causes him to try to fight against his captors.
| Quote #2 For two days and nights this express car was dragged along at the tail of shrieking locomotives; and for two days and nights Buck neither ate nor drank. (1.24) |
Hunger plays an important role in the hardships Buck suffers.
| Quote #3 He did not mind the hunger so much, but the lack of water caused him severe suffering and fanned his wrath to fever-pitch. For that matter, high-strung and finely sensitive, the ill treatment had flung him into a fever, which was fed by the inflammation of his parched and swollen throat and tongue. (1.24) |
Hardship takes an immediate toll on Buck, affecting the way he thinks and acts.
