Thread:Jester of chaos/@comment-30079834-20180924035931/@comment-30079834-20181001225321

What about Hal, Mercedes and Charles? Hal was an out-of-place dog musher, who knew nothing about dogs and how to work with them, so he continuously made Buck and the other dogs work twice as hard as they needed to. When Hal starts beating up Buck with his whip, John Thornton intervenes and punches him in the face, cuts Buck free from his traces, and tells the trio he is keeping him, much to Hal's displeasure. Mercedes was a spoiled and selfish woman whose inexperience was shown, when she couldn't pack sleds and order Hal and Charles to unpack sleds, because she forgot some things or things look bad on sleds. As for Charles, not so much.