Summary of The Call of the Wild In the novel The Call of the Wild, the reader follows a dog named Buck through his journey over the Klondike. He experiences a transformation , as he adapts to the cold, the harsh land the toilsome snow, just to help men find a shiny metal. Buck seems to become a different dog by the end of the book. I will go over what Buck was like, how and why he was forced to adapt to his new environment, and how he changed. When I first met up with Buck, he was the ruler of his domain, uncontested by any other local dogs. A mix between a St. Bernard