Call of the wild by Jack London?

Question

i have to write an essay talking about how Buck qualifes as an epic hero

the cycle of an epic hero is

a call to adventure

departure from home

a perilous journey which includes challenges and impossible odds

a final test

a transformation of life change

a return "home" often with god like rank or elevated status

i have the call to adventure and departure form home. but im not so sure of the rest. please help!

Answer 1

Remember how Buck is reduced to nothing, beaten and kicked and forced to pull sleds through the Canadian wilderness. Then Buck who is near death gets a new owner.  This experience, though, far from destroying him, makes him stronger, and he wins back his kingdom—or rather, he wins a new kingdom, a wild one that better suits his true destiny as a wild animal.  

Chapter 7 - Buck has just pulled the sled for John and earned enough money for John to move on and they go to the back country to the cabin.  Buck and John become best friends and are now living their own lives.  Buck is off with the wolves but feels John's danger. Buck returns but is too late.  Thornton's death ends the succession of masters and leaves him the master of his own fate. The only humans that remain in his world are the Yeehats, and Buck scatters them, triumphantly demonstrating that he is the master, not they.

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