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At the end of Chapter II of The Call of the Wild, what's meant by the phrase "The domesticated generations fell from him"?

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This phrase means that Buck is slowly losing his civilized characteristic. He is becoming less domesticated and more an animal, but in a positive, freedom like way.
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