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Call of the wild Chapter 1 help please?
In this story, why do the men need the dogs?
Why is Buck kidnapped?
What elements were in this chapter? (Don't need to answer.)
What is a main lesson that Buck learns in the first chapter?
Near the end of the chapter, as several unlikable men are being described, the narrator points out that these are men “…(of which [Buck] was destined to see many more).” What does this foreshadow?
The 3rd question isn't as important, but I need the others. please help! Thank you!
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- Anonymous8 years agoFavorite Answer
The men need the dogs for food in case they get stranded/run out of supplies. The dogs make good food in this case because they don't require storage space (they transport themselves) and don't have to be preserved (because they're alive) and don't have to be hunted (they're tame).
Buck is kidnapped to be saved for food, like the other dogs. Some people in that time objected to eating dogs, so the men couldn't buy them, they had to steal them.
The main lesson Buck learns in the first chapter is that he had it good before, as a house pet of a rich man, and that it's tough out in the real world, in danger of getting eaten.
The foreshadowing is that Buck will not spend his whole life with these same men, but that his next owners will be of the same kind (mean, rough, abusive, dog-eaters).