White Fang / Call of The Wild by Jack London

I apologize for the gap in my posts regarding this book. It took some time before I was intergrated into this group. This week I read pages 100-200 from White Fang. So far the novel has provided me a fresh outlook on nature and our influence on it. London is capable of shining light on this topic at a different angle by establishing the main protaganists of each of the two novels as animals. London does an excellant job of providing his main characters with a signficant consciences that a twinged with a feeling of primal instinct let me give you an example of how White Fang describes his role in the Universe:"Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten. The law was: EAT OR BE EATEN. He did not even think the law;he merely lived the law without thinking about it at all." I might have mentioned this already in the handwritten entry I gave to Mr. Hunt but I wish to reiterate the summary and themes of the story to my classmates. White Fang has been raised as a wolf by his mother Kiche and enhibits the natural instincts of the wild as all wolves do. However White Fang is also part dog and once he his captured by A Native American named Grey Beaver he quickly understands the power man has and breaks to their will. I can show you an excert to help explain how White Fang feels towards humans:"To his mind this was power unusual,power inconceivable and beyond the natural power that was godlike." and so throughout the book White strives to appease what he considers his gods. Although his desire to please the humans clashes with naturally violent behavior. White Fang is uncannily aggressive towards other dogs and a vile criminal know as Beauty Smith sees this as well. Smith then purchases Fang from Grey Beaver a puts the wolf-dog in a fighting ring. White Fang suffers horrible abuse from Beauty and the animals Beauty pits him against. Until one day a man by the name of Weedon Scott rescues White Fang from the dog-fighting ring from Smith. Scott is finally able to "domesticate" White Fang by showing the wolf-dog the one thing Grey Beaver and Beauty Smith could not, love. The novel porvides many excellant allegories to our own lives, We all live on the same planet that can sometimes exhibit brutally harsh traits and in order to overcome those obstacles one must understand who they are and where they stand in this world. It also helps if someone cares wither you pass these obstacles or not. Each one of us faces similar enternal conflicts as White Fang. On wither we should follow our primal instincts or have our destiny decided by "civilzation". All of these toilsome ideas are eased by the prescence of love in ones life.

I have never read white fang and i always wanted to! I have read The Call Of The Wild though and i really liked it.

Book:White Fang/ Call of The Wild

Author: Jack London

Pages Read: 200-305

I finished both books today, I found it interesting to compare the two novels together, they have similar plotlines and compliement each other very well. Its no wonder they had an edition where both stories were bound to together. You see in White Fang and in Call of The Wild both characters start and end in opposite ends of the spectrum. White Fang is born and raised in the wild but slowly made tame by humans and ends up in California. While Buck from Call of the Wild on the other hand starts off as a house dog in California but becomes kidnapped and sold to Alaskan miners in need of dog sled teams for the Klondike gold rush. Despite being shoved into a violently different enviroment Buck thrives in the wild and eventually breaks free from the control of man. Both dogs' lives are chronicled by the passing of owners and are transformed by the various personalities of those owners. Both dog's metamorphises are made complete by their final owners that love them the most. (White Fang has Weedon Scott while Buck has John Thronton.) White Fang takes bullets for Scott's family and Buck goes off into the wild after discovering John Thornton killed by Yeehat Indians.
P- The control the human's believe they have over their dogs can be an analogy of the class system in society.

E- Many of the dog owners in the books diregard their animals feelings and abuse them perfusely even though we the readers know how deep the animals personalities and thoughts truely are.

A- The Novel takes a good look at how humans use nature and try to control it especially at time period where a fronteir was being conquered.