Heroes are often characterized as buff men, and a lover who is in a quarrel with the villain who had his lover held captive or killed. Joseph Campbell’s theory of mythological heroes’ steps that were used in order to become a god-like hero was distributed in Jack London’s, Call of the Wild, with the main character Buck. Buck was a tidewater dog who distributed many steps of becoming a hero. The steps he followed were in no order, but they are shown throughout the story of his evolution from being weak to a hero.
Buck’s first stage was the call to adventure or the call of the wild. He distributes many examples of the call affecting his life in one way or another. The examples of the call start at the beginning of the story where he fights back against the men who were taking him away as said many times Buck is a …show more content…
The perilous journey into which Buck was thrown into without choice includes the next example that the story gives you about Buck becoming a hero. He descended into an adventure with a few other sled dogs over that time examples of Buck growing wilder and heroic. Buck begins to fight and kill off anyone in his way along the trip in Canada, in this example he killed Spitz because he was in Buck’s way of growing into a leader. Buck faced a supreme test after John Thornton had been killed by the Indians. This was the test of letting the wild take over as he began leaving and killing Indians that even got close to that location. The test of the death of his most loved companion to push him into a wild-like state in his life. The sixth example is the satisfying award of avenging his friend. After the death of so many missing Indians, Buck started being more respected he was reserved as a ghost dog that if anyone saw him they were lucky to survive. Buck’s reward was the respect and he was able to get revenge for John Thornton’s