![]() This Canon Classic is full of adventure, excitement, and the thrill of the wilderness. , Jack London turned to a different challenge: instead of telling the story of a domestic animal going wild, what about a wild animal becoming civilized? This novel follows the birth and raising of a wolf cub in the wild, who earns the name White Fang, but finds itself being broken by a man and finding his place in the world of humans. And I did this repeatedly, to the clogging of my narrative and in violation of my artistic canons and I did it in order to hammer into the average human understanding that these dog-heroes of mine were not directed by abstract reasoning, but by instinct, sensation and emotion, and by simple reasoning." ~Jack London White Fang, novel by Jack London, published in 1906. ![]() Time and again, and many times, in my narratives, I wrote, speaking of my dog-heroes: "He did not think these things he merely did them," etc. The writing of these two stories, on my part, was in truth a protest against the "humanizing" of animals, of which it seemed to me several "animal writers" had been profoundly guilty. of the Wild and White Fang Veritas Press Comprehension Guide, students complete. ![]() His mother’s a half wolf half dog who was initially raised by humans and his father’s a complete wild wolf. "I have been guilty of writing two books about dogs. The setting of this novel is the late 1890s in California, briefly. Ages 10 and up 271 pages White Fang’s a 3/4 th wolf and 1/4 th dog who is born in the wild. ![]()
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