What is Buck’s view of the Sunland (California) once he becomes a sled dog? a. He can’t remember the Sunland because of all the beatings he has endured.

Terms in this set (10) How does Buck become the leader of the sled-dog team? Buck refuses to allow any of the other dogs to take the leader position and won’t join the dog team in the harness until he is given it.

When Spitz fell onto the ground, Dave and the other dogs killed him. After Buck became the leader of the sled dogs, Dave, like Sol-leks, wasn’t affected by it.

Why DIDN’T Buck save Curly? There were too many wild dogs. She got rabies from the wild dogs and had to be killed.

Thornton, a seasoned gold prospector, saves Buck from being beaten to death by the odious Hal and then becomes Buck’s master. Indeed, so strong is their bond that it is broken only when Thornton dies, and even then Buck makes an annual pilgrimage to his last master’s final resting place.

When he slaughters the Yeehats, Buck learns that without clubs or guns or weapons, that man is not a difficult enemy to face. Buck reflects that it was harder to kill a husky dog than a man, and he vows to no longer fear man unless they had arrows, spears, or clubs that could hurt him.

No, Buck does not die in The Call of the Wild. He mourns the loss of John Thornton, but he also recognizes that Thornton’s death has set him free.

It was Buck, a live hurricane of fury, hurling himself upon them in a frenzy to destroy. He sprang at the foremost man (it was the chief of the Yeehats), ripping the throat wide open till the rent jugular spouted a fountain of blood.

How did Thornton spend the $1600? He paid off debts and traveled to the lost mine.

In Chapter 7, Buck spends a long time running with a wolf at one point. The reason that he is happy to run with the wolf is that he is becoming more and more interested in being a wild animal. When Buck remembers Thornton, he leaves the wolf and goes back to be with the man who he loves so much.

The Yeehats were an Indian tribe who murdered John Thornton and his friends….

Or find an emotionally satisfying life with Thornton. But Thornton’s death from a gunshot wound after a surprise attack by villainous Hal (Dan Stevens) disrupts everything. After spending the final moments with Thornton, the devastated dog moves into the wild to live full-time among his adopted wolf family.

But the movie is uneven in tone and in its sense of its audience—it is too sad and violent for young children and too superficial for older audiences.