The Impact Of The Setting In Jack London's White Fang

Bill Heavey, author of, “The Last Mountain Man”, also discovered firsthand what a different environment can do to someone. Where a person lives really does shape her into the people they are or will be. However, when someone is put in a different environment, who or what will she become? What would an animal become?

One of the themes that exists throughout the book is the power of love, how decisions driven by love, can change a person’s life for betterment. Numerous times in the book, characters are forced to make life-changing decisions. A significant example in The Night Circus is when Bailey faced an extremely

Unlike most novels, Beloved is told from multiple perspectives and follows two storylines. This nonlinear structure not only serves as a way to peak the reader’s interest, but to draw attention to how severely ex-slaves were abused. The twisted, jarring storytelling can be seen as a parallel to the actual thought process of abuse survivors, specifically ex-slaves. These revelations about the book’s narrative structure are key, as the novel is often hailed for its unique manner of recountal.

For my first quarter project I have read the book White Fang. The book White Fang was written by Jack London. Jack London wrote some of the most extraordinary works of fiction. White Fang is an outstanding example. I now know why White Fang is considered a literary classic. White Fang transports you to a completely different time and place.

The way diction is crafted in a novel establishes the atmosphere and the mood of a setting for the reader to interpret. Craig Silvey’s, Jasper Jones, published in 2009, is a novel that uses specific language conventions to create certain moods for the reader. Craig Silvey’s clever use of diction to shape the different settings of summer heat, the glade and Jack Lionel’s house has established a particular mood for the reader to interpret in the novel. The narrative conventions used to shape the setting invokes specific thoughts from the audience to associate that setting with a particular mood or atmosphere.

Many people might say that we are all conditioned a certain way by our environment and that as much as we hope to, we can’t choose our own destiny. As well, many others might think quite the opposite; they may think that people’s own free will and determination will decide people’s destiny. The choices we make and the relationships we build are the driving force behind how we develop as people, but how much of an impact does our environment have on us while we move ahead in life.

In his novel, The Call of the Wild, Jack London wants us to see the step beyond the survival of the fittest to the complete adaptation to and domination of a once unfamiliar and unforgiving environment. Using a third-person, limited omniscient narrator, the cold, icy Yukon wilderness, and a journey from lazy farm life to the deadly work of a sled dog, we see Buck, a Saint Bernard/Scotch Shepherd mix slowly return to his ancestral roots. As Jacqueline Tavernier-Courbin states in her book The Call of the Wild: A Naturalistic Romance, “The book deals less with the concept of evolution than with that of devolution” (Courbin pg 57). London asks us to believe that happily domesticated farm dog, Buck, can not only survive life as a sled dog in the Yukon, but can become completely in tune with his primitive inner self, and ultimately thrive as a leader of a wolf pack.

I love the way the author explains himself along the story, he can use many types of figurative language at the same time and the reader can still have a clear idea of what the author is trying to address. I think that through this book, Jack London proved that he has an awesome writing style, because he can describe the characters, the animals and their surrounding in “White Fang” in a very interesting manner. For example, when he says: “He pointed toward the wall of darkness that pressed about them from every side. There was no suggestion of form in the utter blackness; only could been seen a pair of eyes gleaming like live coals.” He described this in such a special way that when you’re reading the book, you can easily imagine what

Edmund first gives into the temptation of the Turkish Delight, but then realizes that he should be with his siblings. This makes Edmund an evil figure, however, he has a good heart, unlike the White Witch. “…However, for deep down inside him he really knew that the White Witch was bad and cruel” (Lewis 89). Having a good heart ultimately saves Edmund from his temptations. This fact sets the White Witch apart from Edmund. She is evil through and through, which makes her the villain character as well as the terrible mother. Although she technically is not a mother, she first acts like a motherly figure for Edmund. The White Witch’s characteristics are similar to that of the Snow Queen in Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale, The Snow Queen. The siblings encounter Mr. Beaver and Mrs. Beaver on their journey through Narnia. Mr. Beaver serves as a mentor and wise old man archetype. “Safe? Said Mr. Beaver; “don’t you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you” (Lewis 80). The children trust what Mr. Beaver tells them and he helps them determine good from evil. He takes them in and introduces them to this new

The story the “ The Interlopers,” has a setting that contributes to the mood of the story. The setting has an effect on the way the reader feels about the story, making the setting contribute to the

The book I selected to read during this semester is the literary classic The Call of the Wild, a 1903 novel by award-winning author Jack London. I chose to read this story because it is a classic novel and the heroic tone of the novel appealed to me. The novel tells of an initially pampered dog, Buck, and the progression of his tendency to revert to the inner instincts of fierce violence and extreme competition instilled in him. In the process, Buck goes through several different masters before finally landing with the right one. The Call of the Wild is made interesting by the literary devices used in the novel, the simple and robust tone used by London, and the process that the protagonist Buck undergoes in reverting back to his

He then also realizes that the only reason why she would be there would be her barbaric nature that she has derived from her father. The author after mentioning her barbaric nature describes that it is now up to her to choose what door that her lover enters. With the princess’s harsh personality, she would rather see him die rather than him marry the lady. Therefore she would have directed him toward the door that contained the tiger inside, but since he knows of her barbaric nature, he had went into the opposite door, which is the door to his

Part five of the book shows how love can tame natural behavior and instincts. White Fang learns to love Weedon Scott, which produces a desire in him to do

White Fang by Jack London is a breathtaking example of classical composition. This piece of fictionalized American literature has shown, in the simplest way possible, the struggles of a wild made tame wolf as he is thrown in and out of captivity. Mr. London’s novel has shown, in vivid detail, how a good natured cub like White Fang turned into a raging beast. He hated his own species and humans because of the cruel treatment he had received, but by the end White Fang was able to learn what trust and loyalty truly meant. This tale has become an important part of literary history because of it’s tantalizing plot that keeps you riveted. You’ll be rooting for White Fang from the very beginning of the book.

In White Fang is a fiction story. It was written by the American author, Jack London. This book has an abundance of importance because of what it covers while you are reading it. It shows the challenges of life being in the Yukon. The book White Fang also shows how harsh nature can be and how the human race can do can do better than nature or sufficiently worse. It also shows us how sometimes an animal is needed to discover what animals we can become.