Chapter 2 In The Call of The Wild Writing Activity

London anthropomorphizes his animals to an extent. He certainly doesn't go to the extent seen in Disney but he gives people a reference point to understand these dogs. I'm really not sure that London meant the dogs to be a metaphor for people. London was concerned with the power and dignity of nature; the dogs were a part of this. Still, one can draw his or her own conclusions as to how people endure under the indignities of oppression, our history is filled with it.