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b. The Conflict between Buck and the Four Men in A Saloon
Buck arrives at a saloon in San Francisco, the saloon keeper neither gives Buck any attention nor gives Buck any trouble. The quotation below shows
another external conflict of Buck, however this is not a harsh one. This time, the external conflict is from the four men in the saloon.
More tormentors, Buck decided, for they were evil-looking creatures, ragged and unkempt; and he stormed and raged at them through the bars.
They only laughed and poked sticks at him, which he promptly assailed with his teeth till he realized that that was what they wanted. Whereupon
he lay down sullenly and allowed the crate to be lifted into a wagon p. 25.
The external conflict of Buck mentioned above does not trigger any fights or violence, it is verbal. Hammond 2010 mentions conflict in a verbal form is
possible; the four men laughed at Buck, and they also poke Buck with a stick. Buck has not yet learned to handle his tormentors. Buck’s responses to the four
men are really aggressive at the first time, he tries to hurt his tormentors from inside of his crate for mocking him, but then he realizes that those four men are
getting happier and more excited when he acts aggressively, Buck then decides to ignore them.
c. The Conflict between Buck and the Man in the Red Sweater
According to Hammond 2010, an external conflict is a conflict which is more complicated than internal conflict because it deals with another character or
another thing. Buck gets two toughest external conflicts in the story. One of them is when Buck meets the man in the red sweater. Buck meets the man in the red
sweater and his club when he arrives in Seattle. A club is a long rope, made from either a rope or leather, with a wooden holder. A club is a thing that men use to
21 strike horses to make them run faster. The first encounter of Buck with the man in
the red sweater make Buck learns about the violence of a club and the cruelty of a man.
In mid air, just as his jaws were about to close on the man, he received a shock that checked his body and brought his teeth together with an
agonizing clip. He whirled over, fetching the ground on his back and side. And again the shock came and he was brought crushingly to the ground.
This time he was aware that it was the club, but his madness knew no caution. A dozen times he charged, and as often the club broke the charge
and smashed him down p. 27.
Buck has no knowledge about a club and what a man capable to do with it, but he decides to act based on his anger again and does not calculate his actions.
He does not expect that the man in the red sweater will launch an attack to him. After that, many strikes are landed on him, yet he does not give any signs to
surrender. On the one hand, Buck’s fury, anger, and tiredness are mingled together, cause him to not be able to think straight. On the other hand, the man in
the red sweater is a man with no mercy. He keeps on striking Buck whenever Buck is about to attack him. At one point, Buck is about to give up, however, the
man in the red sweater does not let him go. He staggered limply about, the blood flowing from nose and mouth and
ears, his beautiful coat sprayed and flecked with bloody slaver. Then the man advanced and deliberately dealt him a frightful blow on the nose. The
man, shifting the club from right to left, coolly caught him by the under jaw, at the same time wrenching downward, and backward. Buck
described a complete circle in the air, and half of another, then crashed to the ground in his head and chest p. 27.
Buck knows his limits, he is covered in blood, all parts of his body are screaming in pain. The strikes are becoming unbearable for Buck, for he never
knows such violence in his entire life. From the quotation above, it is known that PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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