White Fang

The creature in the book journeys throughout many places and situations in the book. This exciting journey to you is the process of surviving in the harsh wild world to this creature. The wild is unforgiving; selfish; apathetic; rude; uncouth; and cold-blooded. This creature named White Fang of the awkward mixture of dog and wolf was born in this wild world. What I felt while posing over this story and characters, I could not help but to see myself in White Fang. Whether or not the author meant the readers to do that, I understood the story as a good representation of the relationship of God in context of Christianity and Humans comparing that of Scott and White Fang. I immensely do not believe that Jack London meant it because he was more an author of being social activist in support of working class. Nonetheless, such is my interpretation.In his cub-hood, White Fang was curious about the bright and white wall which was the opening of the cave in which he was born. The half-dog-wolf mother prohibited him to go outside the cave to protect him. Much increased the curiosity of the cub as he was growing. One day White fang went outside, disobeying his mother. He placed himself in the wild. And while interacting with other animals and objects, white fang met the best teacher of life: Pain. Pain taught him what animal he ought to avoid and what object he needed to steer clear of. Also, much enjoyment felt white fang while he tasted the first frest blood of a living thing. This represents the state of Adam and Even -- innocent and sheltered in the garden of Eden, yet failed to learn due to lack of experiences. When they were cast out of the garden, they were left no choice but interact with the wild environment and learn along with pain which was one of the punishments given of God. Only though pain were they able to learn and grow and so was White Fang.White Fang recently and decisively declared his loyalty and allegiance to Grey Beaver which was his first master. A god White fang called Grey Beaver himself. In the beginning, wholesome this relationship seemed, and White Fang did his best to express his loyalty to this god. However, this god had sold him to another evil entity, Beauty Smith. With this new evil entity was White Fang abused and taken advantage of to be people's entertainment in the manner of forced to fight other dogs. White Fang was rescued by Weedon Scott. Anger and distrust which took place in White fang marred his innocence and belief of goodness and trust in other gods. Through the incessant trying on Weeden Scott's end, White Fang opened up to Scott little by little to the point that, again but ever so steadfastly, declares his loyalty. The chapter which contains this content is named "the covenant." Humans are confused, at times, to be aware who their God is. They proclaim allegiance with and worship quasi-gods: they spend much of their time, emotions, energy perusing money, man-made philosophy, ungodly and bawdy lascivious, vain fame from other humans, and other worldly and temporary matters. Grey Beaver represents those. The quasi-gods may have seemed to serve humans; but they always betray us and result in putting us in misery. Beaty Smith and his treatment on White Fang were the punishment for worshipping wrong gods. Bitter and vicious had White Fang become, even to Weeden Scott, having gone through injustice and mistreatments of wrong gods. Humans can be slow at recognizing real God when they are distracted by injustice which prevails and God's permission for unthinkable atrocity to happen in the corners of the Earth. Yet, with God's subtle care and patience, could humans be able to recognize that there is hope; there is love; there is something good; and there is God.In the last chapter, White Fang nearly died after he fought the intruder with the intent of hurting Judge Scott. The Scott family provided great care, White Fang recovers. The book ends with White Fang encountering with his n cubs which were born between him and Collie. The fighting for Judge Scott speaks for sacrifice for God we make to show faith. Sacrifice is the ultimate presentation of faith and our devotion in the covenant between humans and God. Only through sacrifice – which in White Fang's mind is his life and survival – can men and women sanctify the covenant between them and God. And the covenant is not one way. The covenant benefits both entities. White Fang shows his willingness to give up his life in the covenant; White fang receives his very own cubs in return which represent happiness. God does His part in the covenant.Whether it was Jack London's shrewdness and covertness or my hyper-religious interpretation which you might consider my take as non-sangfroid, this London's work is vastly prodigious. The meticulous way of following White Fang's thinking dazzled me and had me hallucinate that I could hear what the dogs were thinking around me.

From a writer's perspective, London's masterful use of POV alone makes this book work reading. He begins the story from the vantage-point of two men traveling in the wild, charged with the task of delivering a coffin...and then dramatically shifts perspective to the part-wolf, part-dog who is one of their tormentors. This she-wolf will later become White Fang's mother. The majority of the book is told through White Fang's eyes and although White Fang is a dog, he is very much a character in London's hands. Make no mistake, White Fang is a killer and not a cuddly, likeable protagonist. Yet he is intelligent, resourceful, and difficult to tear your eyes away from, even if not really sympathetic.London is very clear that although White Fang's savagery is in part due to the fact he is of the Wild (always capitalized in London's novel) and is 3/4ths wolf, the dog's treatment at the hands of human beings is responsible for the hardening and coarsening of White Fang's natural character. The scenes in which White Fang is forced into dog-fighting are particularly horrific and disturbing in the grotesqueness of their detail.Although it's impossible to say how an animal would really tell his own story, London's prose at least "feels" very real. It is unsentimental and completely lacking in the anthropomorphism we've come to expect in animal stories today. London also wisely doesn't take a side on the nature versus nurture debate--he clearly believes that both contribute to who White Fang becomes.This is not a book for people who like sentimental stories about animals. But it is a reminder of the responsibility we human beings have to treat animals and nature itself with respect. Or it will bite back.

A literary classic that I have been told to visit many times over my life, White Fang was a beautiful homage to dog ownership, the relationship with humans, and frontier American life. I feel like a teacher assigned it to me when I was in middle school and I never read it, but I got the opportunity to consider it once more as it was on a top-list that I am slowly making my way down.I really enjoyed Fang, and it is very much a glorious view into the mind of being a dog. London explores how they see themselves in the world, their hierarchy, and the ways in which their relationships change with other dogs, humans, and the environment in an incredibly convincing and touching way. It was well-written, and takes the romance and garish cartoony narrative out of the Disneyfied animal story and puts it on par with the beauty of books like Watership Down that explores a humanity, story of life and dedication, and doesn't water down the brutal violence of nature.There was an interesting series of comments throughout the text that really stood out to me after having read an article this year about London’s unceasing white supremacy, and unfortunately when you read something about an author that is so inflammatory it is difficult to ignore where the author may subtly or not so subtly be inching their beliefs and their politics into pieces that seem somewhat innocent of those beliefs. In the case of Fang, I felt that in certain places where power and whiteness were being explored in contrast to the Native Americans and the dogs, that his beliefs weren't very subtle.Of course, the meaning is within the text, and in essence it was a great book. One cannot speculate on what his intentions were, and we are only left with a protagonist observing not only his own hierarchy, but the hierarchy of the humans he worships in much the same way.

Nice book for all ages

Consegna veloce libro impeccabile

Very Gripping!!

Impressionante os detalhes e a riqueza da escrita. Um livro emocionante que mostra como tudo é, de certa forma, influenciado pelo meio.

Narración similar y complementaria a La llamada de la Selva, más extensa, más desarrollada, más madura. En comparación con la anterior pierde algo de frescura e intensidad, pero a cambio prolonga el placer de su lectura. London nos transmite con pasión su enorme amor por la naturaleza de Alaska y la lucha de los seres vivos por la supervivencia en un mundo hostil y salvaje, pero profundamente bello.