Approach Paper on Jack London's "White Fang"

"White Fang" begins with two men and a group of six sled dogs traveling across the Arctic with carrying a deceased man in a coffin. Little to their knowledge, they were followed by a pack of famished wolves. Every night, a female "half-wolf-half-dog" would seduce one of the pack's dogs away and allow the pack to kill him. This killing of the dogs lasted until only 3 dogs were remaining. One of the men in the …

…Throughout the entire novel, White Fang seeks to live out a life of his own, free of any responsibility to anyone. This causes him to struggle through everyday life, and to ultimately find no happiness in the things that he does. Had White Fang have realized that his life could have been made so much more purposeful; he could have become a much happier character and not seen as such a vicious and lonely individual.