A classic book is more than just words,it should also deliver readers images,to absorb readers in the story as if in reality and make reader's heart rise and fall as story moves on.White Fang is exactly a book which reachs a classic book’s accomplishment.
White Fang goes with a story of a part wolf,part dog’s adventure,it was due at Gold Rush times in America,many Americians thronged into the West-Northern with a hope of making fortune,however,most of them prove to be in vain.
White Fang was born from a half-wolf,half dog monther and a wolf father,thus keeps strong wild instinct.He entered human world accidently,hence experience all kinds of ventures he can never imagine before.
In this book,we can easily discover the effect defferent enviroments have on an individual,White Fang would have became a pure,whole wolf which belongs to the wild only had he not bumped into human being and experience the power and wonder of these two legged animals exert,because of it,White Fang was molded into a compromised kind of beast,he obey only to the human-god he assess,and destroy his own kind instead,he can belong to the woods and also belong to the camp in the meantime.
White Fang symbolizes primitive and toughness,later on his life,his days grew more miserable and harsher than ever,the camp dogs have never given up chasing him and trying to slash him into pieces,whenever they saw him,they bristle and bare their fangs while snarling at him,for to them,White Fang is incarnation of the wild nature,the mystery forest they long forgot by the domestic of generations,therefor fright and terror sank into their minds as the wolfish appearance of White Fang sohwed up.White Fand hence was forced to fight against all of them,he fought without options,his instince to live urge him to bite back,to slahsh his opponent's throat before they did the same to him,he adapt fast and well for enviroment leaves no mercy,there's no second chances out there.
As for human beings,it's same hard era and crual environment as well,gold rush attracted hundreds of thousand people from eyerywhere to the Northern and Wertern side,whereas,most of them returned crestfallenly and empty-handedly such as the author did.People then endured endless journey,frezzing weather,ragged mountain road,danger of death lurked everywhere,but gold seeker never disappeared,it was account for that they wanted to make their lives better,to make something out their life,to cling to life out of their very instinct.
White Fang adminstrates great toughness toward his own life,comparing to human,there's one man who can cope and adapt to the world like White Fange does.That's Wolf Larsen in one of Jack London's masterpieces:"the Sea Wolf"'he's a captain of a ship and was referd as a wolf by many sailors sailed across the sea,muscular and brilliant-minded as he was,he brutally treated and enslaved his crew,forcing them serve him by violence,no single one dare challanging him for the consequence is death only.
The sea wolf once said:"living dog is better than dead lion,life is unsatisfaction,but to look ahead to death is greater unsatisfaction",he claimed that the essence of life is movement,ceasing moving means death,death is nothing but emptyness.They 're both perfect manifestations of Species by Darwin,the true survivors.
Having been sent to fight other beast(such as wolves or bear) for money by a vicious merchant,White Fang stood a great deal of stresses of surviving.Theaerous,reversed,menancing became White Fang's best description gradually,he closed his fangs on his own kind,on human,on everything before his furious eyes,he began to hate,to attack outrageously,to stand against the whole world,until a man walked into his life path,Scott,he found White Fang while he was on the verge of dying.This man reached his hand out for White Fang and dragged him out of lightless abyss,offering White Fang something he never know before,love,the warm feeling started to melt his long frozen heart,all of a sudden,a hole inside of him was ameding.
For the first time,White Fang has something exceed his own needs and life,his old masters used to hurt him with club or chains,these punishments can hurt him only by skin deep,underneath the flesh lay the spirit not only untouched,but raged,splended and invincible,on the contrary,the love-master's cuff is rather too light to hurt his flesh,it went deeper,it's disapproval,disappointment,those words are like blade tear White Fang apart.Such a emotion alters White Fang's destiny once and for all,he's no longer broken,seperated,he is whole around the man he loves,the man who's just like breaking dawn that cast the nightmare away and shine the sky bright.
White Fang,the novel can be viewed as the author's own experience from the past,Jack London once was labor class,working in bitter environments,makeing only few sents by his bare hands and sweats,none the less,the salary he earned can barely meet his needs,under that circumstance,he realized the hardship labor-class then are living,further more,because Jack was fond of adventures,wherever on sea or land,he traveled deep into Alaska and northern of America to seek gold,and sailed far across the pacific to Eastern Asia,though those journeies didn't give him big fortune,he did attain a gift more precious and awarding than money itself,those are perfect story materials.Jack soon poured his journeies into writting,what followed was one of the most dazzling and prolific writting career in Americian history.His The Call of The Wild,The Iron Heel,The Sea Wolf,John Barleycorn and White Fang all became international bestseller,these masterpieces Jack created made Americian literature then a huge hit,brought countless readers feverishly indulge in his stories,and the most amazing part is,even now,his compositions still grasp reader's heart and marvel them with every words he wrote.
Closing the final leaf of White Fang.I knew the story must haunt me for a while,the heat,the shock never subside out of me,from time to time,I swang the gate open and step into nineteenth centuary of America,to relive the exotic scene and culture Jack once shaped,to fear as night approaches and fret by the footfall in the darkness,all again,my heart will twinge when I absorb the very last ink.For those who loves reading and appreciate the beauty of nature,I sincerely recommend my favorite story,it's your turn to be involved in this primeval world,to listen the wolf howl echoing through your chest,to feel throb wild beats restlessly,to behold the pure thoughness toward life,to follow the footprints of White Fang.
