Comparing Jack London's Call Of The Wild And The Sea Wolf

Jack London, a writer who is known for his writing focused on wolves, was born on January 12, 1876 (Leal, N/A). By the time he was 30, he gained fame for his books Call of the Wild (1903) and The Sea Wolf (1904) (Leal N/A). At this point, the themes of wolves and exploring the lives of creatures in the wild were very prominent in London’s writing, so it came as no surprise that when he wrote White Fang in 1906, yet again centered around wolves (Leal N/A). However, this book was different, considered to be almost an antithesis to Call of the Wild. Whereas Call of the Wild explored the story of a domesticated dog returning to nature, White Fang centers around a wolf pup, for whom the novel is named, who is taken into an Inuit village and slowly but steadily changes with his surroundings. London shows the relationship between people, animals and their environments. We can see many …show more content…
London uses his book to remind us of the severe effects that nature can have on humans and animals alike. Rather than trying to flesh out all of his human characters, he consolidates them into three, each of them serving a very specific purpose, each having unique effects on White Fang. We can see the range wide range of development and different aspects of White Fang. We can see how much one’s environment has an affect on them, as whenever White Fang is brought to a new environment by his human owners, he adapts, using the plasticity that nature gave him in order to survive. We are shown how White Fang adapts, from his neutral personality with Gray Beaver, to a savage killer when he is tortured by Beauty Smith, and finally to a tame dog with Weedon Scott. Throughout White Fang we are reminded of the awesome power and effect that nature has on us, and the extreme places we can be pushed to if put in severe