Provide three direct quotes that support the theme that based on the first five task the overarching theme of the call of the wild is the primal instinct for survival and the struggle between civilization and the wild
1) "But man is familiar with nature in daylight and mostly in the fullness of her bounty. She dazzles and maddens, yet all the while she is obeying ancient and immutable laws... the hunger-awe with which he stared at it no longer stirred in him" (London, 17).
Explanation: This quote highlights the primal instinct for survival and the allure of the wild. It shows how the protagonist, Buck, begins to tap into his innate instincts as he adapts to the harsh wilderness.
2) "The domesticated generations fell from him. In vague ways he remembered back to the youth of the breed, to the time the wild dogs ranged in packs through the primeval forest and killed their meat as they ran it down. It was no task for him to learn to fight with cut and slash and the quick wolf snap. In this manner had fought forgotten ancestors" (London, 45).
Explanation: This quote emphasizes the primal instinct for survival and the struggle between civilization and the wild. It showcases Buck's regression to his ancestral instincts, shedding the domesticated qualities that have been imposed upon him by humans.
3) "He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time. He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew, in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars" (London, 83).
Explanation: This quote encapsulates the primal instinct for survival and the overpowering allure of the wild. Buck's transformation into a wild and primal creature becomes so overwhelming that he becomes completely consumed by the ecstasy of his existence in the wilderness.