White Fang (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: John Griffith Chaney
- First Published: 1906
- Type of Plot: Allegory
- Time of Work: Circa 1900
- Setting: The Klondike and San Francisco
- Principal Characters: Bill, Henry, One-Eye, Kiche, White Fang, Gray Beaver, Beauty Smith, Cherokee, Weedon Scott
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism, Children’s literature, Adventure
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Dogs, Nature, Death or dying, Pets, Alaska, Arctic, Animals, Animals, dangerous, Wolves, Yukon
- Locales: San Francisco, CA, Alaska, Santa Clara Valley, CA, Klondike, Yukon Territory, Canada
The Novel
White Fang is told in six parts. 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...
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See Also:
Jack London (Cyclopedia of World Authors)Jack London (Short Fiction)Jack London (Long Fiction)Jack London (Dictionary of World Biography)Jack London (Censorship)Jack London (Identities and Issues)
See Also:
- - For teachers, the White Fang Lesson Plan.
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