100 points if you help please. Please read this excerpt to answer question #1. Throughout the novel, Buck hears the call of the wild and is conflicted about where he belongs. At the end of the novel Part 7), he follows the call and lives in the wild, but every year he goes back to where Thornton died to mourn him. These ideas suggest that the conflict between wilderness and civilization stays with Buck, even after he decides to live in the wild.
1. Explain the meaning of this phrase: “he follows the call and lives in the wild.” Provide evidence from the text to support your answer. Please identify the novel Part and page number to show where the evidence is taken.
2. Explain why Buck goes back and mourns Thornton every year? Please provide the novel Part and page number to show where the evidence is taken.
3. In Part 7, page 5 of the novel, last sentence: “Man and the claims of man no longer bound him.” Explain what the narrator means.
4. In your opinion, through Buck’s experiences and final assimilation into becoming one with the wolfpack, what can Buck’s change teach people? Reference Part 7, pages 1-7 of the novel. Focus on pages 6 and 7, especially.