Buck is such an endearing fellow. Er…dog. But that’s a good point – it’s easy to forget he’s not a person. You know, aside from the whole dragging a sled through the frozen North business. That’s because we’re in his head – sort of. We never see dialogue-style quotations around Buck’s thoughts, so this isn’t quite Homeward Bound. But Buck is personified in a Lassie sort of way. He has emotions, desires, motivations, the works. Which is why we can empathize with him as our main character even though he’s got four legs.