White Fang | White Fang

At a glance:

Author: Jack London
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...

White Fang | White Fang

At a glance:

The Novel

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