Table of Contents Short Summary Two men are out in the wild of the north. Their dogs disappear as they are lured by a she-wolf and eaten by the pack. They only have three bullets left and Bill, one of the men, uses them to try to save one of their dogs; he misses and is eaten with the dog. Only Henry and two dogs are left; he makes a fire, trying to drive away the wolves.
In the first, two frontiersmen, Bill and Henry, have a running battle with a wolfpack. In the second, the perspective shifts to the wolves, especially One-Eye and Kiche, whose mating produces White Fang.
The perspective shifts for the last time to White Fang himself. The last four parts consist first of White Fang living with his mother in the wild and then his life under three very different human masters. Jack London uses the omniscient third-person narrator throughout the book.
In the first part, Henry and Bill are driving a dogsled containing the corpse of an English lord whose body they are taking back to civilization. They discover that they are being followed by a pack of wolves.
A she-wolf lures the sled dogs one at a time outside their camp at night, and the wolves kill and eat them.
For some reason, Henry and Bill have only one rifle and three bullets. Bill wastes those bullets in a futile pursuit of the wolves, which kill and eat him.
Henry stays alive by keeping a fire going. Finally, another dogsled team traveling in the opposite direction rescues him.
The perspective then changes to the she-wolf. She and the pack search for food while at the same time three males show an interest in her. The first is a large gray wolf who is leader of the pack, the second an old wolf without his right eye, and the third a three-year-old male.
The gray wolf and the old wolf, called One-Eye, team up to kill the young one, then the old one attacks the gray wolf from behind and kills him. This gives One-Eye the right to mate with the she-wolf.
Eventually, the she-wolf finds a cave and gives birth to a litter of cubs.
The she-wolf tends her young while One-Eye hunts for The entire section is words. Unlock This Study Guide Now Start your hour free trial to unlock this page White Fang study guide and get instant access to the following:White Fang, however, escapes and sneaks aboard the ship.
Scott, therefore, chooses to take the dog along. The novel ends by showing how White Fang learns to exist as a domesticated animal.
White Fang, however, escapes and sneaks aboard the ship. Scott, therefore, chooses to take the dog along. The novel ends by showing how White Fang learns to exist as a domesticated animal.
Throughout the novel, White Fang struggles to reconcile his feral instincts with the expectations of the domestic world, highlighting the conflict between nature and society.
Part wolf and raised in the wild, White Fang's natural instincts to fight and hunt are at odds with man's ways. White Fang shows you both the cruel and kind nature of humans and how hard it can be for a wild animal to adapt to humans and their way of life.
It shows the life of . Human Beings. Gray Beaver The Indian who first owns Kiche, White Fang's mother, and the man who later owns White yunusemremert.com Beaver represents a type of impersonal master in White Fang's life. As such, he will stand in contrast to such savage owners as Beauty Smith and such compassionate owners as Weedon Scott.
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