What is the meaning of this excerpt? Reread this excerpt from The Call of the Wild
It was no task for him to learn to fight with cut and slash
and the quick wolf snap. In this manner had fought
forgotten ancestors. They quickened the old life within
him, and the old tricks which they had stamped into the
heredity of the breed were his tricks. They came to him
without effort or discovery, as though they had been his
always. And when, on the still cold nights he pointed
his nose at a star and howled long and wolflike it was
his ancestors, dead and dust, pointing nose at star and
howling down through the centuries and through him
O Buck considers wild dogs his family, and they visit
his campsite
o As Buck lives in the wild, he summons his natural
instincts for survival.
As Buck becomes accustomed to trail life he howls
contentedly
C Buck is learning how to fight and how from the dogs
on his team