Owner Two

Having an owner like Perrault and Francois helped Buck survive by providing the proper amount of food rations and rest relating to there schedule. However this new ownership lacked almost every quality that Perrault and Francois possessed causing Buck to experience the next layer of his life. The layer of sheer survival where Buck is forced to push his body to near death limits. There’s a time in everyone’s life of bad happenings and painful emotion and this is the time that Buck experiences this.
Hal, Charles, and Mercedes were inexperienced owners which only thrived off of the idea of gold hidden in the mountains of Alaska. “Buck staggered along at the head of the team as in a nightmare” (73). These owners over feed Buck and his team leading to near starvation down the road. Buck learns that he can no long count on his current owners to help him survive and realizes that he is on his own. As Bucks body is depleting each day without proper nourishment his mind grows strong as it is the only thing keeping him alive after weeks of pulling. He tells himself to keep going refusing to give up which furthers Bucks perseverance. It wasn’t until the dogs wondered into the Thornton’s camp that Buck and only Buck was relieved of his retched owners, do to the justice of another man. Buck was freed from Hal, Charles, and Mercedes but had to watch his fellow comrades descend onto thin ice where they were sure to perish.
To escape these bad happenings and painful emotion we are eventually rescued by the people around us, which is how Buck meets his favorite and last human owner.