White fang
White fangI. Introduction
Jack London, a skilled writer, is seen as the best of his time. Many of London's works are considered to be world classics. In, White Fang, London cleverly transforms the main character, and uses the characters background as the catlyst in this transformation.
II. Summary of White Fang
London wrote White Fang as a contradictory story to his own Call of the wild. White Fang is a story of a dog (White Fang) whoose father is a wolf, and his mother is a dog. He is taken from the wild as a pup and raised with a group of Indians as a sled dog. Whereas in The Call of the Wild the main character was first a domesticated dog and then driven into the wild.
White Fang was taken in by an Indian as a pup, and taught to live the ways of a domesticated sled-dog. One day his Indian master gave White Fang to a dog figther in exchange for bottles of whiskey. White Fang did not approve of this trade, and became a ferocious animal, which is just what his new master wanted. White Fang fought for this man several times and never lost, untill one day. When the day arrived, White Fang had to fight a bull dog, and if it wasn't for a man named Weedon Scott, he would have died. He was his new master for ever.
III. Analysis of characterization
In White Fang the main character is White Fang.White Fang began his life as a wild wolf-dog, but he was taken by an Indian as a pup, and was domesticated. He soon learned the power of his master and obeyed his laws, even though his wild instincts told him not to, as London notes:
Every instinct of his nature would have impelled him to dash wildly away, had there not suddenly and for the first time arisen in him another and counter instinct. A great awe descended upon him.....Here was mastery and power, something far and away beyond him.(London 64)
White Fang was later traded to a man who used him as a fighting dog. This fighting surfaced White Fang's anger and caused him to revert back to the ways of the wolf, to kill your prey as instinct tells you to. After a near death experience White Fang was taken from his horrible owner, and lived out his...
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