White Fang Thematic Analysis

White Fang, written by Jack London, is a wonderful adventure novel that vividly depicts the life of a wolf by the name of White Fang. Throughout the course of the novel, White Fang goes through numerous learning experiences as he interacts with humans and other wolves from Alaska around the turn of the century. Jack London uses the events that transpire during White Fang’s life to illustrate that only the cunning, intelligent, and strong …

…White Fang to represent how natures basic laws, such as the law of survival and to “eat or be eaten”, can apply to everything. I believe the he allowed the story to end with White Fang finding happiness with a loving master to teach everyone an important lesson. This is that sometimes we can become so distracted by “surviving” in the business world or elsewhere, that we forget that experiencing happiness should be most important.