Question

Which excerpt from The Call of the Wild best shows that Buck is entering into a new episode in his life?

And amid all this bursting, rending, throbbing of awakening life, under the blazing sun and through the soft-sighing breezes, like wayfarers to death, staggered the two men, the woman, and the huskies.
Buck made no effort. He lay quietly where he had fallen. The lash bit into him again and again, but he neither whined nor struggled. Several times Thornton started, as though to speak, but changed his mind.
This was the first time Buck had failed, in itself a sufficient reason to drive Hal into a rage. He exchanged the whip for the customary club. Buck refused to move under the rain of heavier blows which now fell upon him. Like his mates, he was barely able to get up, but, unlike them, he had made up his mind not to.
He was still limping slightly at the time he rescued Buck, but with the continued warm weather even the slight limp left him. And here, lying by the river bank through the long spring days, watching the running water, listening lazily to the songs of birds and the hum of nature, Buck slowly won back his strength.

Answer 1

I made no effort to get up. I was way too tired, so I laid quietly where I had fallen. He hit me with the lash over and over, but I did not whine nor struggle. This was the first time I failed giving Hal a sufficient reason to be outraged. I saw that Hal exchanged the whip for the customary club but I refused to move under the heavy blows I was now receiving. Like my mates, I was barely able to get up so I made my mind up not get up. I had a vague feeling of nearing doom. I have suffered greatly and so much so that the blows did not not hurt as much as they did before. As they fell upon me, that little spark of life within me gleamed and went out. It was almost out. I felt very strange, numb a little. Then without warning, a cry, a cry that was like the cry of an animal came from a man. John Thornton, I later learned was his name, sprung upon Hal, my owner, who held the club.

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Answer 2

He was still limping slightly at the time he rescued Buck, but with the continued warm weather even the slight limp left him. And here, lying by the river bank through the long spring days, watching the running water, listening lazily to the songs of birds and the hum of nature, Buck slowly won back his strength.

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