In the last part I read in Jack London's Call of the Wild, Buck meets John Thorton, who tries to stop Hal, Charles, and Mercedes when they want to cross the rivier when the ice is melting. After Thorton realizes he can't change their minds he doesn't interject. But when Buck decides he cannot go anymore and refuse to stand up to pull the sled, Buck is beaten by Hal. When Thorton sees the mistreatment of Buck he stands up for Buck and takes Buck from the ropes holding Buck to the sled and decides to keep him. The three continue on and halfway across the river all three fall into the broken ice along with the team of dogs never to be seen again.
Thorton helps Buck back to health, which strengths their affection for each other. Buck views thorton as his true master and wants to do anything for him. For example he saves John from a river when believed impossible and moved 1,000 pounds on a sled for 100 yards when Thorton asked him to. Whenever Buck and Thorton are traveling in the woods, Buck finds his "long lost brother" who is another wolf. He finds in the wolf his inner desire to leave civilization and be wild. But his love for Thorton leads him to return to their camp. One day when Buck leaves the camp he comes back and finds indians that killed Thorton. Buck, once he kills the indians for killing Thorton, is now free to follow his call of the wild. In this book, Romantstic ideas are represents by the fights Buck had with temptation: stay with Thornton, or kill things? Be civilized, or be wild? But whenever Thorton dies, Buck is then free to run with the wild dog packs.
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