Read the excerpt from The Call of the Wild.

The descriptive language in this scene best shows readers

that Buck is

All the stiffness and gloss had gone out of his beautiful

furry coat. The hair hung down, limp and draggled ... His

muscles had wasted away to knotty strings, and the flesh

pads had disappeared, so that each rib and every bone in

his frame were outlined cleanly through the loose hide.

O angry and resentful.

O nervous and tired.

weak ani gaunt

O gloomy and hopeless.

Answer: (c)

Weak and gaunt

O. Weak and gaunt.

Explanation:

Jack London's The Call of the Wild tells the story of a dog named Buck who begins his life as a domestic pet but ended up becoming the leader of a pack of wolves in the wild. The whole plot delves into the various stages of his journey into the wild.

The given excerpt from the text is a description of Buck who seemed to have lost his physical healthy stature. He now seemed weaker, his furry coat devoid of gloss, "limp and draggled" under the power of his new master Hal, Charles, and Mercedes. He looked so thin that "his muscles had wasted away to knotty strings, and the flesh pads had disappeared so that each rib and every bone in his frame were outlined cleanly through the loose hide". All of these physical descriptions of Buck is a descriptive language to show Buck's weak and gaunt position / condition.