In this book Mercedes, Hal, and Charles, a group of very inexperienced and even less equipped city people, to depict the probability of doom to those who do not adapt. While in Skagway the three have no idea what the Klondike holds. The well dressed well fed team wants nothing but riches and fame. In their effort for time they purchase the now exhausted dog team, which Buck leads, to take them to find the gold.

Even during the beginnings of their journey they show their expected doom. Mercedes, the most shrewd of the bunch piles load after load on the sled. Onlookers laugh at the sight, tel

He fights Hal for Buck and wins. So the beaten Hal moves on, not heeding Thornton's warning of thin ice. Their doom arrives in a mayhem of ice and water. All three of them and their team of dogs die in the cold murky river.

John Thornton asked little of man or nature. During the search for the gold Thornton travels in no hurry. He travels in an Indian fashion. He hunts for food with his hands and fights off the cold in his small but, accommodating tent. If he fails, Thornton keeps on traveling knowing that eventually he will find food. He has adapted, and now has the power to conquer the wilderness. Buck also reaches his own greatest strengths which creates somewhat of a super being in a dog.

Thornton and Buck reach an adaptation in their quest for fortune, which creates the man and beast that rises above all. The two of th

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