Rating: Summary: I am sorry, but this book was not as good as I was expecting Review: As I started to read this book, I thought that I would enjoy it immensely. However, it was a very slow-moving book that did not seem to go anywhere. I felt extremely bad that White Fang (the dog) was unloved until later in life when he was taken under the wing of Weeden Scott. This book was a very big let-down, and I think that Jack London killed himself because he bored himself with this book.
Rating: Summary: White Fang is the best novel on emotions and the wild Review: No book that i have ever read has captured the essence of nature, humans, or love as this one has. I first read it in second grade and find it gets better every time i read it. I would recomend white fang to anyone who loves to read, or just wants to feel great.
Rating: Summary: An outstanding and superb book to die for! Review: This book is a great book with a lot of surprises and detours. There is a kid who was hearing a wolf all his life. Now he is an adult and ready for anything even a dog sled race, so he enters. Before the race, the wolf came to his little village.
Rating: Summary: An effortless read! Sheer magic!!! Review: This book may have been intended for the young but should still be enjoyed by the young and old at heart. London's writing style is so exquisite and so little of it is weighed with nonsensical metaphors that all that is left are words and phrases that speak directly to your heart. One never has to stop and reread and try to guess at what the author maybe implying, because it hits you the instant the word travels off the page, through your eyes and into your brain forming the delectable image that it was intended. Many could benefit from reading Jack London, even those above reading so-called juvenille literature.
Rating: Summary: This book is about more than just a wolf. Review: Readers can experience White Fang on many levels. At its root, it is a simple adventure story. Beyond that, it is the story of a wild animal and his interaction with man. We see the animal through man's eyes and man through the animal's eyes. But beyond even that, the story is so much more. The actions of White Fang, the other animals he comes in contact with and the men he comes in contact with can also be seen as a micro-view of society. Why else would White Fang view man as "Gods?" Those Gods range from cruel to kind. And White Fang's life experiences range from those that are incredibly narrow and self-centered to those that ultimately allow him to come to terms with his environment and the things he cannot control.This is a great book, regardless of how it is read or what is taken away from the experience.
Rating: Summary: IT IS AN ADVENTURE BOOK. Review: WHHITE FANG is about an partdog partwolf cub who grows up in the wild with his mom.His mom gets taken away.White Fang gets many masters.I really like this book.It is an adventure book.I would give it five stars.
Rating: Summary: A excellent adventure book Review: White fang is about a half-dog, half-wolf, who has grown up in the wild. He lives alone with his mother after his father dies. Him and his mother become some indians pets. White fang is tortured by the other dogs, until he gets bigger and becomes king of the dogs. White Fang get bought by another man and becomes a sled dog. In the end White fang goes to live with the man who bought him and saves that man's life. After their house was broken into and White fang was brutally hurt.
Rating: Summary: One Thrill After Another!! Review: White Fang is about a wolf that learns about life the hard way. He was left with his mother, Kiche, after his father died. They soon stumbled on an Indian Camp, where they were taken in by the gods. He learned that god hands meant hurt. The Indian dogs, Lip-Lip & the puppy-pack, tortured White Fang & soon became his worst nightmare. This made him stronger, & soon ruled over the dogs. Worse was to come of him, as he was traded to Beauty Smith. White Fang became pure rage & full of hatred. He was made to fight in blood sports until he was taken by Weedon Scott. With Scott, White Fang learned to trust the god's hands &, though it took time, he started to love. He was taken to California where he lived with Scott & his family, loving & being loved, instead of hating & being hated. It was truley a thrilling & great book!
Rating: Summary: Exciting and Profound Review: Gripping story of White Fang, half-dog and half-wolf. But there is more to Jack London's story. London was a committed socialist and this story is a criticism of the capitalist system which ruled the modern world circa-1900. London's view of capitalism was that it was brutal and dog-eat-dog. This novel reflects London's interpretation. London also writes as if he took much of Karl Marx's dialectic interpretation of human events to heart. White Fang and most of the humans in contact with White Fang act in predictable ways because they are conditioned by the capitalist system to act accordingly. White Fang and most people he has contact with have no free will; they are the slaves to the capitalist system. We know now that the presumed replacement for capitalism, Marxist socialism, is all a bunch of rubbish but, then, because the rotton, perverse Marxist-Leninist experiment would not be tried until late-1917, London did not have the advantage of empirical trial-and-error. Of course, a gentler mother-hen socialism has since prevailed but I am sure Karl Marx would find disappointment in it. Today, White Fang would be doted over by scores of bureaucrats and enjoy the benefits of government subsidized food, shelter, health, education and recreation. White Fang is treated well by a nice family at book's end and he gradually becomes docile. Maybe tough old Jack London was, at heart, a mother-hen socialist like Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Rating: Summary: It gives you a firm grasp of life and its meaning. Review: White Fang by Jack London is about a wolf-cub and his adventures of gowing-up. The cub's mother Kiche is half wolf and half dog, and his father, One Eye, is a wolf making White Fang one fourth dog. On the outside White Fang appears to be only a wolf. Throughout the book the dog inside of him begins to show mentally when he leaves the wild and becomes almost domesticated. After being separated from his mother and being the only survivor of the litter, White Fang becomes loyal to his god, Grey Beaver. Grey Beaver is an indian but White Fang looks at humans as gods that he must obey. I think the wildness in White Fang comes in his strong grasp of life. He is very smart about things and learns the laws of nature and the gods very quickly. He is also quick physically and is a good fighter. This works well for him because White Fang hates his own kind, dogs and wolves, and has a rough time getting along with them. White Fang is definately a solitary animal. This gets really hard when White Fang is given a new master Beauty Smith, who is cruel. White Fang doesn't want to leave Grey Beaver but is forced to. Things aren't looking so good for him until a man named Weedon Scott saves him and shows hom love. This was a wonderfully written book that gives the reader a real feeling of the Wild. I suggest it to deep readers. White Fang has a lot of interesting thoughts about life, but takes a lot of thinking. It is a book you have to work to understand.
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