The Conflict between Buck and the Four Men in A Saloon The Conflict between Buck and the Man in the Red Sweater

24 The external conflicts of Buck with Spitz are all in form of physical violence, and that kind of conflict has been stated by Hammond 2010 before. However, the previous quotation shows that Buck always tries to shrug off any possible trouble with him. However, this kind of effort is one-sided only, on the one hand, Spitz keeps doing what he likes because he thinks Buck will never burst out. On the other hand, Buck is getting tired of tolerating Spitz’s behavior, one time Buck attacks Spitz spontaneously until Spitz himself is startled. Spitz was equally willing. He was crying with sheer rage and eagerness as he circled back and forth for a chance to spring in. Buck was no less eager, and no less cautious, as he likewise circled back and forth for the advantage p. 41. After recovering from the shock, Spitz starts to face Buck. Even though Spitz is startled, he himself is keen to fight Buck. Buck, however, is angry and cannot hold his patience any longer. Another fight initiated by Spitz erupts, and it is about to break when a pack of hungry huskies barging into the camp because of the smell of the food. Buck and Spitz’s fight has to wait because they have to fight the hungry huskies that are already sneaking in to steal the food. However, if the hungry huskies are not barging in, there must have been a big fight between Buck and Spitz. Hammond 2010 mentions that an external conflict is more complicated than an internal conflict and the presence of the hungry huskies makes the situation more complicated. Buck, who gets hurt more than the others from fighting the hungry huskies, is an easy target for Spitz. As Buck drew himself together to spring after them, out of the trail of his eye he saw Spitz rush upon him with the evident intention of overthrowing him. Once off his feet and under that mass of huskies, there was no hope for him. But he braced himself to the shock of Spitz’s charge, then joined the flight out on the lake p. 42. 25 Even in the middle of the fight with the hungry huskies, Spitz is still trying to harm Buck. Buck, who is still recovering from the fight with the hungry huskies simply dodges the fight and walks away. This shows that even though Buck cannot stand Spitz, he still can think straight and always contemplate the condition first. For him, the big fight with the hungry huskies is a fight big enough for one day. The team is in a bad condition, the dogs, Perrault, and Francois are stressed out because the hungry huskies steal most of the team’s food. The team then continues their journey and in Pelly River, which is a headstream of Yukon River, another fight between Buck and Spitz breaks. It starts when Dolly, the last husky brings into the team in Dyea, goes suddenly mad and springs straight for Buck. Dolly chases Buck, who runs in panic, and they disappear into the woods, running around until Buck hears Francois calls his name. When Buck passes Francois, the dog-driver holds the axe and crashes it down upon mad Dolly’s head. While Buck is still in shock from his first encounter with a mad dog, Spitz decides to attack Buck, for this is a chance that he has been waiting. Buck staggered over against the sled, exhausted, sobbing for breath, helpless. This was Spitz’s opportunity. He sprang upon Buck, and twice his teeth sank into his unresisting foe and ripped and tore the flesh to the bone. Then Francois’s lash descended, and Buck had the satisfaction of watching Spitz receive the worst clubping as yet administered to any of the team p. 45. This time Spitz succeeds to hurt Buck, leaving his marks on him. However, luckily for Buck, Francois is always interferes. This time, the harshest strike of Francois’ club lands on Spitz, and Buck is satisfied just by watching it. Twice now, Buck has not response any of Spitz’s attacks, which both occur in his unguarded condition. Another fight breaks one morning, there is a heavy snowfall PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 26 one night and Pike, the malingerer, does not appear. Through the night until morning Pike is securely sleeping in his nest under the snow. Francois looks for him in vain, while Spitz in his wrath starts to make Pike frightened in his nest. When Pike appears, Spitz launches at him and about to punish him when Buck comes in between them. Pike, who had been trembling abjectly, took heart at this open mutiny, and sprang upon his over-thrown leader. Buck, to whom fair-play was a forgotten code, likewise sprang upon Spitz. But Francois, chuckling at the incident while unswerving in the administration of justice, brought his lash down upon Buck with all his might p. 47. From the quotation above, it is known that the trigger of the fight this time is Spitz’s arbitrary attitude toward the other dogs. Buck stands for Pike, because as a leader of the team Spitz does not bring any comfort for the team. Francois comes in the middle of the fight and put an end to the fight before it begins. Buck’s decision to strike Spitz is not based on the things that Spitz does to him, but also to the other dogs. The other dogs are too scared to take a stand to their leader, but Buck is not scared. Since then, the other dogs are not scared anymore with Spitz, which leads to a condition where Francois backs up Spitz with his club, while Buck backs up the rest of the dogs. Even though Buck really wants to challenge Spitz and his leadership status, he knows that he cannot start a fight in front of Francois and his club. One day, at the mouth of Tahkeena, the last fight between Buck and Spitz breaks. Buck leads the pack, sixty in total, with the fifty huskies of Northwest Police, whose camp is a hundred yards away, in a hunting of rabbit in the woods. Buck is chasing a rabbit when all of a sudden Spitz comes in