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Summary: Best book I ever read
Review: The main story in White Fang is about a wolf-dog who never really had puppy hood. At first White Fang is just the same as regular wolf pups but when he is exploring the unknown, a native Canadian, Gray Beaver, sees him. He yelps and his mom comes to save him but she is part dog, and Gray Beaver was her master.
When he is taken to the camp of Gray Beaver he is forsaken by his kind because another puppy attacks him and gets him to fight him all the time because he is part wolf and dogs are scared of wolf, which helped him in latter life. To fight for his life, he learns to hate other dogs because he is attacked by every dog. When a cruel owner buys him he has to fight for his life.
White Fang had a hard life to live and I never would never like to go though what White Fang had to go through because it was not easy to lose his mom. White Fang is definitely one of the best books I've ever read because it has great language.
My Favourite Character
My favourite character is White Fang. He is likeable because he is smart and loyal to people he likes. When White Fang is a puppy, he becomes an outcast in the town where Gray Beaver lives because of the puppy-pack led by his rival Lip-Lap. White Fang had a lot more to put up with like Beauty Smith, who buys White Fang from Gray Beaver. He treated White Fang like dirt. Beauty Smith causes White Fang to go insane but White Fang survives. Beauty Smith nearly kills White Fang in a dogfight, but Weedon Scott saves White Fang.
Weedon Scott is the answer to all of White Fang's problems because first he saves him, then Weedon gives him a home, and he is nice to him.
Characters
White Fang
When you first meet White Fang he is just a pup. At first he was one of five puppies but he looked different because he didn't have a red coat. He is black and white with bright white teeth. Later he is the last one of the puppies alive. One chapter shows that White Fang is one brave wolf-dog, when a lynx attacks him and his mom. He bites it even though he is afraid. Another chapter shows White Fang is smart because when a man loads his gum White Fang backs away. As Weedon Scott White Fangs last master, said, "White Fang has intelligence that must be given a chance." When White Fang's mother is taken away before his eyes, he tries to follow her but is taken back by Gray Beaver, his master. There is one problem about White Fang; he hates to be laughed at as it makes him go into a rage because it makes him feel afraid. White Fang is my favourite character. He helps you see what it is like to be different from everyone else.
Gray Beaver
Gray Beaver was White Fang's first master. He is a great man but if White Fang does something bad, Gray Beaver beats him. White Fang learnt "Never, no matter what the circumstance, must he dare to bite the god [Gray Beaver] who was lord and master over him." When White Fang does something good, Gray Beaver gives him a treat. Gray Beaver has black hair, green eyes, and is a native Canadian. He is also a kind man because he took White Fang in even when he was part wolf and "Sometimes tossed White Fang a piece of meat and defended him in eating it." If I had to live at the time of White Fang I would chose to be in his village. He named White Fang, White Fang because of his white fangs. Gray Beaver later in the book goes to the North-west territories to trade, and sells White Fang. I think Gray Beaver is one character that brings the book alive.
White Fang is a beautifully written book. If I had Jack London's use of language and the way he writes I would be a great writer. If you want a book that is adventurous then this is your book because in every chapter something new and exciting happens. I would recommend this to anyone not just my friends. It has action, and more action and a little tragedy.
The ending is excellent because it was happy and because White Fang proved that he was loyal by defending his new home. I think just at the end of the book was the most griping because there is a fight seen where White Fang is shot three times. As White Fang is described, "No mere dog could have done what he did. He is a wolf." I would give this book
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Summary: Adventure in the Wild
Review: As a boy I used to love books like this, about untamed nature and woodlore and woodcraft, but it has been many years since I've read them. I recently had the occasion to revisit this excellent novel, and found that it has aged quite well and is still a terrific read. The story has to do with a wolf named White Fang, and begins before he was born, with his father and mother leading a pack in the dead of winter in the frozen Canadian wilderness. There is no game around and all are starving. They harass and harry a beleaguered dog-sled team over the course of several days, picking the dogs off one by one, then finally surrounding the one remaining man. He builds a ring of fire to protect himself from these ravenous wolves, but knows he soon must succumb to exhaustion. He notices the she-wolf, sitting patiently outside the ring, seemingly indifferent--except for the string of drool coming out of her mouth in anticipation of making a meal out of him. That is the lesson here, in this story of White Fang. It is a savage world, a world in which you either kill or are killed, eat or are eaten. His first day out of the den he kills and eats a small bird, then in turn is almost eaten by a hawk. He observes a porcupine roll itself into a ball to defend itself against a lynx, then observes the lynx yowl in pain after foolishly getting stung. The lynx plays another prominent role. Trying to survive a typical lean winter, White Fang's mother takes the desperate step of going to the absent lynx's den to eat its offspring. The enraged lynx later comes to their den and attacks, but with the help of a growing White Fang, they defeat it. It also becomes a meal. White Fang eventually gets taken in by men, first an Indian tribe where he is "tamed" with brutality, then by white traders who use him for their own base purposes. Through it all we see the cruel world in which he lives and feel his pain and hunger and anger. It is a well-plotted adventure carefully observed, and serves as a great reminder of how savage the untamed wilderness is, and that mankind is often only a bare step above it.
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