Buck learns many of the great lessons of life and unfolds like a summer rose. And as he sheds each peddle he learns a new lesson. The first being that of the survival of the fittest and how to pick your fights based around the law of club and fang. The second being that your mind set is one of the key aspects of surviving. And third that freedom although positive in some ways it is very contradicting because the place that you are being set free into is often a harder life. By using these lessons he is able to live in harmony with the wild and gain the status of a legend.