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 White Fang Review December 19, 2008
Mark A. Muttilainen
White Fang is another timeless classic written by Jack London. It is similar, but not the sequel to, The Call of the Wild. In this book, the main character is named White Fang, and he is three-quarters wolf and one-quarter dog. He is a naturally strong and agile and throughout the book his masters use these skills to make him into a vicious and nasty dog that fights to kill. After meeting Weedon Scott, White Fang starts to change. White Fang then shows he could also be a loving and caring dog, different from before. Throughout his journey, humans and the Wild shape his destiny to make this one interesting and awesome book.
Jack London uses the ideas of survival of the fittest and primordial rememberences to make White Fang a high action-packed and awesome book! I recommend this book to everyone who likes adventure books, everyone who likes high action-packed books, and everyone who likes to read in general!
White Fang December 8, 2008
Kelley B. Bennett
Jack London's, "White Fang," begins with two hunters in the American North. The two dogs that the men are hunting with are lured by a wild wolf. Both dogs are lead to the pack that the wolf broke away from and were attacked. Once the hunters hear the dogs being mauled, they rush to the pack and are also attacked. A hunter is killed but manages to kill one of the wolves before dying. One of the dogs fought his way out of the pack and wrestles the other hunter from the fray. Famine is striking the area making the wolves and hunters desperate. The dog breeds with a wolf and produces a litter of pups in which only one survives; the hunter and the pup and mother part ways. This pup is very well built and athletic despite the conditions of the famine. Him and his mother, Kiche, arrive at an Indian camp. An Indian named Gray Beaver feeds and nurtures White Fang and Kiche. White Fang grows strong and swift through the kindness of Gray Beaver. One day, a logger named Beauty Smith tricks Gray Beaver into selling White Fang to him. Beauty beats and abuses White Fang into a violent beast. After reaching maturity, Beauty uses the dog to fight other dogs in a pit fight. White Fang earned a great sum of money while being used as a fight dog. In one particular fight, Fang is matched up against a bull dog. The bull dog, however small and stocky, was patient and attacked Fang's jugular when he attacked. After Fang completed a brutal fight, a trader named Weedon Scott spots Fang. Scott makes an offer to Beauty that was to good to refuse. Scott brought Fang to live with his family in the city. Fang grew to love Weedon and his family; Fang lived a life of love and happiness with Scott.
 This book is phenomenal November 22, 2008
L. Rutzinski
I absolutely love this book! Once I started reading it, I couldn't stop. I started on a Friday and finished the next day. Jack London really knows how to draw in and capture a reader. Fabulous book.
Great Book - which I suspect is a metaphor for Jack London's inner life October 6, 2008
Daniel Mackler (www.iraresoul.com)
I suspect that White Fang is really a disguised tale about Jack London's inner emotional life, and particularly his childhood. I don't know too much about London, so this is only speculation, and his biography would probably give better clues, though so often biographers idealize their subjects' childhoods - and gloss over the more painful emotional dynamics.
So the dynamics I sensed, and you may know better than I how they parallel Jack London's life: White Fang (= Jack London), abused and neglected as a puppy (= Little Jack), born outside any conventionally accepting community, somewhat loved and then abandoned by his mostly-wolf mother, fully abandoned by his wolf father after his birth because of mother's behavior, raised in isolation, treated consistently cruelly by the world and became tough as nails and aloof and independent to defend himself against this cruelty (= London splitting off emotionally to keep his identity and inner strength), never unconditionally loved by anyone so he became a frustrated and angry creature, but kept his sense of himself somehow, and fought for what he believed in.
Passed around from owner to owner, treated progressively worse by each (adults and society massively failed London again and again), and used him for their sick purposes, to the point of nearly killing him, until one man finally rescues him and loves him and nurses him back to health - and teaches him the meaning of love. White Fang is then redeemed, and ultimately becomes a beloved member of a family, a hero, and a loving father of puppies of his own.
I suspected this last part of the book was Jack London's hidden fantasy for how he wanted his own life to turn out - to finally become non-emotionally isolated, loved and accepted by a family system, and essentially "normal." Didn't he instead die in his early forties, a miserable, lost and embittered alcoholic?
A Wonderful Read April 10, 2008
U. Restauro (Hawthorne, CA USA)
This a great book to read because I remember reading it as a kid. I liked the book so much that I read it twice. There was also a dog that I used to have that kind of looked like the main character, but he was a huskey. Also, I would recommend this book to anyone.
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