White Fang Analysis

Most of the book takes place in the Yukon Territory, the section of Canada buttressed up against Alaska. It was a pretty wild area, sort of the last hurrah for the Western frontier where men were m...

London falls back on the tried-and-true "I can see everything everywhere" point of view to tell his story. It's a smart call, since he has to show us things out in the wild involving animals that c...

With the Yukon Gold Rush as a back-drop, London is free to tell us a thrilling tale of action and adventure: complete with cute puppies, dead bunnies and a whole heck of a lot of fighting. There's...

Jack London's not one for putting on fancy pants. He likes to give you the facts, and let you make the call. Even when we're close to White Fang, it's not like we're swept up in a whirlwind of emot...

If you could use a sledgehammer as delicately as a scalpel, you might have some idea of how London writes. He doesn't go in for flowery language, complicated metaphors, or ten dollar words. "White...

The title's pretty much a no-brainer. We can almost see the marketing meeting now:"It's about a wolf named White Fang, so let's call it 'White Fang!'""Brilliant boss! No wonder they pay you the big...

It's a happy one, as White Fang finally gets to "lay with half-shut patient eyes, drowsing in the sun" (25.45) after all the horrible things he goes through. It also comes on the heels of a big ol'...

London loves the lean, meaty prose. White Fang is full of sparse descriptions, without a lot of flowery phrases, that get right to the bloody point. He also enjoys lots of action and violence, whic...

London was nice enough to divide his story up into five parts, which perfectly match the five segments of classical plot analysis. (Somebody sure paid attention in English class.) Of course, it's n...

Teddy Roosevelt seemed to have it in for Jack London; the noted animal lover (and frequent animal shooter) claimed that White Fang was absurd, especially the fight between Cherokee and White Fang....

We're pretty much sex-free here, at least as far as the humans go. There are a couple of sequences of NatGeo-style wolf mating, but that's all a natural part of life and whatnot. Even in those scen...