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There was an television series based on the novel between 1993 and 1994. Not related to the films above, though probably inspired by the success of the first one. It lasted a single season, 26 episodes. All episodes are available on DVD.
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There was an television series based on the novel between 1993 and 1994. Not related to the films above, though probably inspired by the success of the first one. It lasted a single season, 26 episodes. All episodes are available on DVD. There was also an AnimatedAdaptation between 1992 and 1994, The Legend of White Fang, that was heavily [[{{Bowdlerization}} bowdlerized]] to make it suitable for children.
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*** That said, the animal that comes closest to killing White Fang is a ''bulldog'', so six of one...
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* CrapsackWorld: Like its predecessor, White Fang portrays both the natural world and the world of humans as little more than a constant stream of horrible abuse, death and misery, with only a tiny fraction of a chance for a happy ending. Nothing takes precedence over survival, not even family bonds.
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* ArtisticLicenceBiology: It's stated that no male wolf will ever fight a female wolf or dog, even if attacked by one. This is completely untrue of real wolves (although the alpha female is more likely to have the last word in a dispute than her mate). Then there are inaccuracies in wolf pack structure, hunting, mating behavior...
** Most notably, White Fang's father, One-Eye, kills two rival males to mate with Kiche, in real life wolves rarely fight to the death and really problematic "betas" typically leave to found their own packs, killing mostly happens when a bunch of unrelated wolves are thrown together in a confined space like a zoo. And when White Fang meets Kiche as an adult she drives him away as a potential threat to her current pups and it's said that wolf mothers don't remember their own pups after a year, in reality pups tend to stay with their parents for years and baby-sit their younger siblings, in fact most packs consist of one mated pair and their offspring.
** Lynxes are portrayed as the ultimate fighters that appear in the book. While lynxes are indeed fierce its really overblown. When White Fang is in a fighting ring the day he fights a lynx is claimed as the day he truly fought for his life despite that he had fought numerous wolves and dogs, including three in a row and two at a time, before the lynx. Dogs used in the gold rush tended to be very big, AT LEAST 80-100 pounds, and a lynx only weighs about 40 pounds. Its even worse with Kiche's fight at the beginning of the book. She is portrayed as fierce as a wolf can be and only seems to beat the mother lynx beacuse baby WF was holding on to the cats back leg with his teeth and is still seriously injuried. Dogs have been used/known to hunt/kill all manner of animals and at one point in America the number one cause of unnatural deaths of domestic cats.
** Most notably, White Fang's father, One-Eye, kills two rival males to mate with Kiche, in real life wolves rarely fight to the death and really problematic "betas" typically leave to found their own packs, killing mostly happens when a bunch of unrelated wolves are thrown together in a confined space like a zoo. And when White Fang meets Kiche as an adult she drives him away as a potential threat to her current pups and it's said that wolf mothers don't remember their own pups after a year, in reality pups tend to stay with their parents for years and baby-sit their younger siblings, in fact most packs consist of one mated pair and their offspring.
** Lynxes are portrayed as the ultimate fighters that appear in the book. While lynxes are indeed fierce its really overblown. When White Fang is in a fighting ring the day he fights a lynx is claimed as the day he truly fought for his life despite that he had fought numerous wolves and dogs, including three in a row and two at a time, before the lynx. Dogs used in the gold rush tended to be very big, AT LEAST 80-100 pounds, and a lynx only weighs about 40 pounds. Its even worse with Kiche's fight at the beginning of the book. She is portrayed as fierce as a wolf can be and only seems to beat the mother lynx beacuse baby WF was holding on to the cats back leg with his teeth and is still seriously injuried. Dogs have been used/known to hunt/kill all manner of animals and at one point in America the number one cause of unnatural deaths of domestic cats.
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**behavior, etc. Most notably, White Fang's father, One-Eye, kills two rival males to mate with Kiche, Kiche; in real life life, wolves rarely fight to the death death, and really problematic "betas" typically leave to found their own packs, killing packs. Killing mostly happens when a bunch of unrelated wolves are thrown together in a confined space like a zoo. And when White Fang meets Kiche as an adult adult, she drives him away as a potential threat to her current pups pups, and it's said that wolf mothers don't remember their own pups after a year, year; in reality reality, pups tend to stay with their parents for years and baby-sit their younger siblings, in fact siblings. In fact, most packs consist of one mated pair and their offspring.
** Lynxes are portrayed as the ultimate fighters that appear in the book. While lynxes are indeedfierce its fierce, it's really overblown. When White Fang is in a fighting ring ring, the day he fights a lynx is claimed as the day he truly fought for his life life, despite that he had fought numerous wolves and dogs, including three in a row and two at a time, before the lynx. Dogs used in the gold rush tended to be very big, AT LEAST 80-100 pounds, and a lynx only weighs about 40 pounds. Its even worse with Kiche's fight at the beginning of the book. She is portrayed as fierce as a wolf can be and only seems to beat the mother lynx beacuse baby WF was holding on to onto the cats cat's back leg with his teeth and is still seriously injuried. Dogs have been used/known to hunt/kill all manner of animals and at one point in America America, were the number one cause of unnatural deaths of domestic cats.
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** Lynxes are portrayed as the ultimate fighters that appear in the book. While lynxes are indeed
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* ArtisticLicenceBiology: The fact that no male wolf will ever fight a female wolf or dog, even if attacked by one. Then there are inaccuracies in wolf pack structure, hunting, mating behavior...
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Definitely ''not'' a ComingOfAgeStory about ABoyAndHisDog but a harsh look at life in the rugged Northland Wild where only the strong survive and an ugly examination of the forces that shape the clay that is the human mind.
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The novel was adapted to a namesake film in 1991, directed by Randal Kleiser. The film cast a real wolfdog, Jed, into the role, with EthanHawke cast as his beloved master Jack Conroy. It was a modest box office hit, earning $34,793,160 in the United States market. It is still well-regarded. It also spawned a sequel, "White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf" (1994). This one briefly featured Hawke. But the main human characters were Henry Casey (Scott Bairstow) and Lily Joseph (Charmaine Craig). This one didn't do nearly as well. It earned $8,878,839 in the United States market, only the 117th most successful film of its year.
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** Lynxes are portrayed as the ultimate fighters that appear in the book. While lynxes are indeed fierce its really overblown. When White Fang is in a fighting ring the day he fights a lynx is claimed as the day he truly fought for his life despite that he had fought numerous wolves and dogs, including three in a row and two at a time, before the lynx. Dogs used in the gold rush tended to be very big, AT LEAST 80-100 pounds, and a lynx only weighs about 40 pounds. Its even worse with Kiche's fight at the beginning of the book. She is portrayed as fierce as a wolf can be and only seems to beat the mother lynx beacuse baby WF was holding on to the cats back leg with his teeth and is still seriously injuried. Dogs have been used/known to hunt/kill all manner of animals and at one point in America the number one cause of unnatural death's to domestic cats was small dogs like jack russell terriers and wheiner dogs. Some hunters in South America are known to use lone dogs to kill pumas in the same manner boar hunters use few to no dogs.
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** Lynxes are portrayed as the ultimate fighters that appear in the book. While lynxes are indeed fierce its really overblown. When White Fang is in a fighting ring the day he fights a lynx is claimed as the day he truly fought for his life despite that he had fought numerous wolves and dogs, including three in a row and two at a time, before the lynx. Dogs used in the gold rush tended to be very big, AT LEAST 80-100 pounds, and a lynx only weighs about 40 pounds. Its even worse with Kiche's fight at the beginning of the book. She is portrayed as fierce as a wolf can be and only seems to beat the mother lynx beacuse baby WF was holding on to the cats back leg with his teeth and is still seriously injuried. Dogs have been used/known to hunt/kill all manner of animals and at one point in America the number one cause of unnatural death's to deaths of domestic cats was small dogs like jack russell terriers and wheiner dogs. Some hunters in South America are known to use lone dogs to kill pumas in the same manner boar hunters use few to no dogs.cats.
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** Lynxes are portrayed as the ultimate fighters that appear in the book. While lynxes are indeed fierce its really overblown. When White Fang is in a fighting ring the day he fights a lynx is claimed as the day he trulied fought for his life despite that he had fought numerous dogs, including three in a row and two at a time, before the lynx. Dogs used in the gold rush tended to be very big, AT LEAST 80-100 pounds, and a lynx only weighs about 40 pounds. Its even worse with Kiche's fight at the beginning of the book. She is portrayed as fierce as a wolf can be and only seems to beat the mother lynx beacuse baby WF was holding on to the cats back leg with his teeth and is still seriously injuried. It should be noted that dogs of similar size have been used/known to hunt/kill all manner of animals and at one point in America the number one cause of unnatural death's to domestic cats was small dogs like jack russell terriers and wheiner dogs.
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** Lynxes are portrayed as the ultimate fighters that appear in the book. While lynxes are indeed fierce its really overblown. When White Fang is in a fighting ring the day he fights a lynx is claimed as the day he trulied truly fought for his life despite that he had fought numerous wolves and dogs, including three in a row and two at a time, before the lynx. Dogs used in the gold rush tended to be very big, AT LEAST 80-100 pounds, and a lynx only weighs about 40 pounds. Its even worse with Kiche's fight at the beginning of the book. She is portrayed as fierce as a wolf can be and only seems to beat the mother lynx beacuse baby WF was holding on to the cats back leg with his teeth and is still seriously injuried. It should be noted that dogs of similar size Dogs have been used/known to hunt/kill all manner of animals and at one point in America the number one cause of unnatural death's to domestic cats was small dogs like jack russell terriers and wheiner dogs. Some hunters in South America are known to use lone dogs to kill pumas in the same manner boar hunters use few to no dogs.
* BabiesEverAfter: The book ends with White Fangmeetings meeting his pups for the first time.
* BabiesEverAfter: The book ends with White Fang
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** Lynxes are portrayed as the ultimate fighters that appear in the book. While lynxes are indeed fierce its really overblown. When white fang is in a fighting ring the day he fights a lynx is claimed as the day he trulied fought for his life despite that he had fought numerous dogs, including three in a row and two at a time, before the lynx. Dogs used in the gold rush tended to be very big, AT LEAST 80-100 pounds, and a lynx only weighs about 40 pounds. Its even worse with Kiche's fight at the beginning of the book. She is portrayed as ferice as a wolf can be and only seems to beat the mother lynx beacuse baby WF was holding on to the cats back leg with his teeth. It should be noted that dogs of similar size have been used/known to kill cats and at one point in the number one cause of innatural death's to dempstic cats was small dogs like jack russell terriers.
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** Lynxes are portrayed as the ultimate fighters that appear in the book. While lynxes are indeed fierce its really overblown. When white fang White Fang is in a fighting ring the day he fights a lynx is claimed as the day he trulied fought for his life despite that he had fought numerous dogs, including three in a row and two at a time, before the lynx. Dogs used in the gold rush tended to be very big, AT LEAST 80-100 pounds, and a lynx only weighs about 40 pounds. Its even worse with Kiche's fight at the beginning of the book. She is portrayed as ferice fierce as a wolf can be and only seems to beat the mother lynx beacuse baby WF was holding on to the cats back leg with his teeth. teeth and is still seriously injuried. It should be noted that dogs of similar size have been used/known to kill cats hunt/kill all manner of animals and at one point in America the number one cause of innatural unnatural death's to dempstic domestic cats was small dogs like jack russell terriers.terriers and wheiner dogs.
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** Lynxes are portrayed as the ultimate fighters that appear in the book. While lynxes are indeed fierce its really overblown. When white fang is in a fighting ring the day he fights a lynx is claimed as the day he trulied fought for his life despite that he had fought numerous dogs, including three in a row and two at a time, before the lynx. Dogs used in the gold rush tended to be very big, AT LEAST 80-100 pounds, and a lynx only weighs about 40 pounds. Its even worse with Kiche's fight at the beginning of the book. She is portrayed as ferice as a wolf can be and only seems to beat the mother lynx beacuse baby WF was holding on to the cats back leg with his teeth. It should be noted that dogs of similar size have been used/known to kill cats and at one point in the number one cause of innatural death's to dempstic cats was small dogs like jack russell terriers.
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* EvilMakesYouUgly: Beauty Smith. Implied to be a vicious cycle - Beauty Smith was born ugly, and was forced to grow up on the outskirts of society which made him emotionally damaged and ugly by nature.
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* ForTheEvulz: Deconstructed. White Fang kills other dogs for pleasure, but gets pleasure from it because of how emotionally damaged he is.
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* MightyWhitey: When White Fang sees Caucasians for the first time, he immediately recognizes their superiority to his native 'gods' like Grey Beaver.
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* PhysicalGod: White Fang learns early that humans are like gods and serves them devotedly the rest of his life. He may not ''like'' his god, but he will still be faithful.
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White Fang loathes other dogs to the point of going out of his way to assassinate them when he spots one alone.
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White Fang loathes other dogs to the point of going out of his way to assassinate them when he spots one alone.
* HunterOfHisOwnKind: White Fang loathes other dogs to the point of going out of his way to assassinate them when he spots one alone, and when threatened by any dog, he straight up kills it. One of the chapters is called "The Enemy Of His Own Kind."
* HunterOfHisOwnKind: White Fang loathes other dogs to the point of going out of his way to assassinate them when he spots one alone, and when threatened by any dog, he straight up kills it. One of the chapters is called "The Enemy Of His Own Kind."
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* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvilBeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: One of the central themes of the story. White Fang of course, but it applied to Beauty Smith (bullied and forced to grow up on the outskirts of society because he was ugly) and Jim Hall (abused by the legal system and punished for a crime he didn't commit) too.
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** Most notably, White Fang's father, One-Eye, kills two rival males to mate with Kiche, in real life wolves rarely fight to the death and really problematic "betas" typically leave to found their own packs, killing mostly happens when a bunch of unrelated wolves are thrown together in a confined space like a zoo. And when White Fang meets Kiche as an adult she drives him away as a potential threat to her current pups and it's said that wolf mothers don't remember their own pups after a year, in reality pups tend to stay with their parents for years and baby-sit their younger siblings, in fact most packs consist of one mated pair and their offspring.
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* TheBully: Lip Lip. A stronger older puppy in the Indian tribe, Lip Lip singled White Fang out as his special object of persecution.
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* OneHitKill: The way bulldogs fight is described this way. White Fang spends most of the fight against the bulldog tearing his back and ribs to shreds. Cherokee and bulldogs like him bite the neck and hold onto it until whatever they're biting is dead. Cherokee did manage to get a neck bite on White Fang, and would have killed him if Weedon Scott hadn't intervened.
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* OneHitKill: The way bulldogs fight is described this way. White Fang spends most of the fight against the bulldog tearing his back and ribs to shreds. Cherokee and bulldogs like him bite the neck and hold onto it until whatever they're biting is dead. White Fang spent most of the fight against the bulldog tearing his back and ribs to shreds, but Cherokee did manage to eventually get a neck bite on White Fang, and would have killed him if Weedon Scott hadn't intervened.
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* FamilyUnfriendlyViolenceInNameOnly: [[http://www.anime-games.co.uk/VHS/anime/white-fang-hashire-shiroi-okami.php A completely unrelated Japanese OVA "Hashire! Shiroi Okami" (Run! White Wolf) was dubbed into English]] [[CoversAlwaysLie with the packaging claiming it to be "Based on characters from Jack London's classic novel"]] but the content, bar several character names, bore no relation to the supposed source.
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* BearsAreBadNews: One appears in the 1991 movie (and played by Bart the Bear), when the main human character gets attacked by it. Thankfully, White Fang arrives on the spot and keeps the bear away from him until it gets bored and walks off.
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* MayDecemberRomance: One Eye is already old when he becomes Kiche's mate.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Literature/TheCallOfTheWild'', which creates BookEnds of a dog presiding as proverbial king over a judge's estate in the Santa Clara Valley.
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''White Fang'' is a 1906 novel written by {{Jack London}}, often published together with ''Literature/TheCallOfTheWild'' nowadays. Whereas the latter 1903 novella is the story of a tame dog adapting to the wild, ''White Fang'' is the story of how the titular wild one-quarter-dog-three-quarters-wolf becomes tamed.
The novel starts with two men and their dog sled team being pursued by a wolf pack in the Northland Wild. Desperate for food during a famine, the wolves eventually kill all of the dogs and one of the men before the other is rescued. The starving pack eventually splits up, the She-Wolf who lured the sled dogs to their doom going off with her mate, whom the narrator refers to as [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin One Eye]]. The two raise a litter of pups, only for One Eye and all the litter except one to die. The She-Wolf and her surviving pup eventually meet up with a group of Mackenzie Indians; one of them, Grey Beaver, recognizes the She-Wolf as Kiche, his brother's runaway half-wolf-half-dog, and takes possession of her and her pup, whom he names White Fang.
So begin White Fang's lessons in cruelty and mastery. The puppy pack he now belongs to see him as a wolf and treat him as an enemy. The abuse he endures from them, particularly the leader Lip-lip, makes him both stronger and more vicious, gradually turning him into a brutal, savage fighter. Nevertheless, he adapts to the laws of his new surroundings and develops a loyalty and respect for Grey Beaver, who eventually sells Kiche and takes White Fang to his trading post at Fort Yukon.
At the Fort, the young wolf catches the attention of "Beauty Smith," who introduces Grey Beaver to whiskey in order to get him to sell White Fang. The book now takes the reader into the horrible world of dog fighting, where drunken men put two starved, violent dogs in the ring, but only one comes out alive. Thanks to his sadistic new tormentor of an owner, White Fang becomes an unbeatable monster, forced to fight wild wolves, several dogs at once, and even a lynx for entertainment. It is during a fight where a bulldog all but kills him that White Fang is finally rescued by Weedon Scott.
Like John Thornton in ''Call of the Wild'', Scott introduces White Fang to ThePowerOfLove for the first time, and his love slowly heals the wounds of abuse and torture and transforms the monster into a tame friend and protective ally. Scott eventually takes White Fang back to his father's estate in the Santa Clara Valley, where he must adjust to living as a tame pet and learn which animals are fair game (jack rabbits, squirrels, and quails) and which he must leave alone (chickens, cats, other dogs). He ultimately repays Scott for his love and protection by saving his family from a murderous intruder one night (an escaped convict whom Judge Scott unknowingly sent to prison for a crime he was framed for). The reader leaves White Fang surrounded by the puppies he fathered with the sheepdog Collie.
Definitely ''not'' a ComingOfAgeStory about ABoyAndHisDog but a harsh look at life in the rugged Northland Wild where only the strong survive and an ugly examination of the forces that shape the clay that is the human mind.
The novel was adapted to a namesake film in 1991, directed by Randal Kleiser. The film cast a real wolfdog, Jed, into the role, with EthanHawke cast as his beloved master Jack Conroy. It was a modest box office hit, earning $34,793,160 in the United States market. It is still well-regarded. It also spawned a sequel, "White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf" (1994). This one briefly featured Hawke. But the main human characters were Henry Casey (Scott Bairstow) and Lily Joseph (Charmaine Craig). This one didn't do nearly as well. It earned $8,878,839 in the United States market, only the 117th most successful film of its year.
There was an television series based on the novel between 1993 and 1994. Not related to the films above, though probably inspired by the success of the first one. It lasted a single season, 26 episodes. All episodes are available on DVD.
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!!Tropes in this work:
* ArtisticLicenceBiology: The fact that no male wolf will ever fight a female wolf or dog, even if attacked by one. Then there are inaccuracies in wolf pack structure, hunting, mating behavior...
* BabiesEverAfter: The book ends with White Fang meetings his pups for the first time.
* BeastlyBloodsports: White Fang is forced to become a pit dog, and it turns him into a deadly monster. He has to fight wolves, multiple dogs at a time, even a lynx once. The last fight he was in was against a bulldog, and it nearly killed him, until some men arrived and broke up the fight. One of them cared for White Fang, who eventually was tamed by his kind new master.
* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil
* BerserkButton: Do not laugh at White Fang. [[UnstoppableRage Just don't.]]
* [[BigBadassWolf Big Badass Wolfdog]]
* BigDamnHeroes: White Fang tries to invoke this when he meets his first humans -- by calling Kiche to save him. It backfires.
* BookEnds: With ''Literature/TheCallOfTheWild''. While the first begins with Buck sleeping on a judge's farm on California and ends with a pack of wolves terrorizing the humans on Yukon, this one starts with a pack of wolves hunting two men and ends with White Fang on a judge's farm on California.
* BullyBulldog: Double Subverted by an American Bulldog named "Cherokee" who White Fang fights. While it's a fighting dog, it doesn't seem very aggressive or eager for battle.
* ByronicHero: Albeit having the excuse of being a wild mostly-wolf canine, White Fang is a very, ''very'' dark AntiHero for most of the book.
* DirtyCoward: Beauty Smith.
* DisappearedDad: White Fang's father One Eye is torn to pieces early on in the book.
* DoubleConsciousness: The wild nature of a wolf vs. the tame, instinctual loyal nature of a dog. Since White Fang is the son of a wolf and a half-wolf dog, this also represents InTheBlood.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: You're darn right White Fang has to earn his happy ending.
* EvilMakesYouUgly: Beauty Smith
* ForTheEvulz: Deconstructed. White Fang kills other dogs for pleasure, but gets pleasure from it because of how emotionally damaged he is.
* HappilyEverAfter
* [[HeroicDog Anti-Heroic Dog]]
* HenpeckedHusband: One Eye to Kiche.
* HumansAreBastards: True until we meet Scott, whose rescue of White Fang is motivated by his desire to atone for this.
* HumansAreCthulhu: The canines see the humans as gods and have an innate fear/respect of them.
* IronicNickname: Beauty Smith, explicitly compared to calling a bald man "Curly."
* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence
* KarmaHoudini: White Fang sure does kill a lot of dogs...
** Aside from the ones he's forced to kill, that is.
* KickTheDog: Literally. Also beat the dog, starve the dog, jump up and down on the dog...
* KickTheSonOfABitch: White Fang killed Lip Lip while the latter was starving during a famine.
* [[KidsAreCruel Puppies Are Cruel]]: Seriously.
* LoveRedeems: Scott's patience with White Fang.
* MamaBear: Kiche repeatedly in the first part of the book. She even risks the wrath of a ''Mama Cat'' by killing lynx kittens to feed her pup.
** Subverted later when the pup tries to invoke this upon his first encounter with humans -- and is alarmed and dismayed when Kiche submits to them.
* MightyWhitey: When White Fang sees Caucasians for the first time, he immediately recognizes their superiority to his native 'gods' like Grey Beaver.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Inflicted on White Fang by other dogs, on White Fang by humans, ''by'' White Fang on other dogs, on him ''again'' by a bulldog, and finally by White Fang against an armed intruder.
* OneHitKill: The way bulldogs fight is described this way. White Fang spends most of the fight against the bulldog tearing his back and ribs to shreds. Cherokee and bulldogs like him bite the neck and hold onto it until whatever they're biting is dead. Cherokee did manage to get a neck bite on White Fang, and would have killed him if Weedon Scott hadn't intervened.
* PapaWolf: White Fang for his humans.
* ThePowerOfLove
* PreciousPuppy: Averted and later played straight.
* [[BabiesEverAfter Puppies Ever After]]
* [[PutOnABus Put On A Canoe]]: Kiche, though she makes a brief Cameo later.
* RealityIsUnrealistic: Modern readers may question how a bulldog would possibly be able to stand up to a wolf in a fight, but long ago bulldogs were powerful, athletic, and incredibly sturdy, very unlike the waddling, laid-back bulldogs of today.
* SlapSlapKiss: How Jack London portrays dog romance. Kiche and the female collie on the Whedon family farm are aggressive toward potential mates except when in heat, not to mention reluctant to allow them near their newborn pups.
* SlapYourselfAwake: Near the beginning, a drowsing character attaches a burning stick to his hand to keep from falling asleep, since he's surrounded by wolves and if the fire goes out, he's Wolf Chow.
* SoftGlass: Averted.
* UnreliableIllustrator: In the illustrated version of the book, when the bulldog is strangling White Fang with a neck bite, the accompanying illustrations show the bulldog burying his jaws in White Fang's neck, then standing a foot away, then standing a few ''yards'' away, then back to gnawing on the protagonist's throat. All the while the accompanying text has White Fang constantly in the Bulldog's jaws with Scott and Matt barely struggling to get the dog's mouth open. Also, while a lot of blood and gore is described in-text, none of it is shown.
* WouldntHitAGirl: Fighting a female dog goes against every one of White Fang's natural instincts.
* {{Xenofiction}}
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The novel starts with two men and their dog sled team being pursued by a wolf pack in the Northland Wild. Desperate for food during a famine, the wolves eventually kill all of the dogs and one of the men before the other is rescued. The starving pack eventually splits up, the She-Wolf who lured the sled dogs to their doom going off with her mate, whom the narrator refers to as [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin One Eye]]. The two raise a litter of pups, only for One Eye and all the litter except one to die. The She-Wolf and her surviving pup eventually meet up with a group of Mackenzie Indians; one of them, Grey Beaver, recognizes the She-Wolf as Kiche, his brother's runaway half-wolf-half-dog, and takes possession of her and her pup, whom he names White Fang.
So begin White Fang's lessons in cruelty and mastery. The puppy pack he now belongs to see him as a wolf and treat him as an enemy. The abuse he endures from them, particularly the leader Lip-lip, makes him both stronger and more vicious, gradually turning him into a brutal, savage fighter. Nevertheless, he adapts to the laws of his new surroundings and develops a loyalty and respect for Grey Beaver, who eventually sells Kiche and takes White Fang to his trading post at Fort Yukon.
At the Fort, the young wolf catches the attention of "Beauty Smith," who introduces Grey Beaver to whiskey in order to get him to sell White Fang. The book now takes the reader into the horrible world of dog fighting, where drunken men put two starved, violent dogs in the ring, but only one comes out alive. Thanks to his sadistic new tormentor of an owner, White Fang becomes an unbeatable monster, forced to fight wild wolves, several dogs at once, and even a lynx for entertainment. It is during a fight where a bulldog all but kills him that White Fang is finally rescued by Weedon Scott.
Like John Thornton in ''Call of the Wild'', Scott introduces White Fang to ThePowerOfLove for the first time, and his love slowly heals the wounds of abuse and torture and transforms the monster into a tame friend and protective ally. Scott eventually takes White Fang back to his father's estate in the Santa Clara Valley, where he must adjust to living as a tame pet and learn which animals are fair game (jack rabbits, squirrels, and quails) and which he must leave alone (chickens, cats, other dogs). He ultimately repays Scott for his love and protection by saving his family from a murderous intruder one night (an escaped convict whom Judge Scott unknowingly sent to prison for a crime he was framed for). The reader leaves White Fang surrounded by the puppies he fathered with the sheepdog Collie.
Definitely ''not'' a ComingOfAgeStory about ABoyAndHisDog but a harsh look at life in the rugged Northland Wild where only the strong survive and an ugly examination of the forces that shape the clay that is the human mind.
The novel was adapted to a namesake film in 1991, directed by Randal Kleiser. The film cast a real wolfdog, Jed, into the role, with EthanHawke cast as his beloved master Jack Conroy. It was a modest box office hit, earning $34,793,160 in the United States market. It is still well-regarded. It also spawned a sequel, "White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf" (1994). This one briefly featured Hawke. But the main human characters were Henry Casey (Scott Bairstow) and Lily Joseph (Charmaine Craig). This one didn't do nearly as well. It earned $8,878,839 in the United States market, only the 117th most successful film of its year.
There was an television series based on the novel between 1993 and 1994. Not related to the films above, though probably inspired by the success of the first one. It lasted a single season, 26 episodes. All episodes are available on DVD.
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!!Tropes in this work:
* ArtisticLicenceBiology: The fact that no male wolf will ever fight a female wolf or dog, even if attacked by one. Then there are inaccuracies in wolf pack structure, hunting, mating behavior...
* BabiesEverAfter: The book ends with White Fang meetings his pups for the first time.
* BeastlyBloodsports: White Fang is forced to become a pit dog, and it turns him into a deadly monster. He has to fight wolves, multiple dogs at a time, even a lynx once. The last fight he was in was against a bulldog, and it nearly killed him, until some men arrived and broke up the fight. One of them cared for White Fang, who eventually was tamed by his kind new master.
* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil
* BerserkButton: Do not laugh at White Fang. [[UnstoppableRage Just don't.]]
* [[BigBadassWolf Big Badass Wolfdog]]
* BigDamnHeroes: White Fang tries to invoke this when he meets his first humans -- by calling Kiche to save him. It backfires.
* BookEnds: With ''Literature/TheCallOfTheWild''. While the first begins with Buck sleeping on a judge's farm on California and ends with a pack of wolves terrorizing the humans on Yukon, this one starts with a pack of wolves hunting two men and ends with White Fang on a judge's farm on California.
* BullyBulldog: Double Subverted by an American Bulldog named "Cherokee" who White Fang fights. While it's a fighting dog, it doesn't seem very aggressive or eager for battle.
* ByronicHero: Albeit having the excuse of being a wild mostly-wolf canine, White Fang is a very, ''very'' dark AntiHero for most of the book.
* DirtyCoward: Beauty Smith.
* DisappearedDad: White Fang's father One Eye is torn to pieces early on in the book.
* DoubleConsciousness: The wild nature of a wolf vs. the tame, instinctual loyal nature of a dog. Since White Fang is the son of a wolf and a half-wolf dog, this also represents InTheBlood.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: You're darn right White Fang has to earn his happy ending.
* EvilMakesYouUgly: Beauty Smith
* ForTheEvulz: Deconstructed. White Fang kills other dogs for pleasure, but gets pleasure from it because of how emotionally damaged he is.
* HappilyEverAfter
* [[HeroicDog Anti-Heroic Dog]]
* HenpeckedHusband: One Eye to Kiche.
* HumansAreBastards: True until we meet Scott, whose rescue of White Fang is motivated by his desire to atone for this.
* HumansAreCthulhu: The canines see the humans as gods and have an innate fear/respect of them.
* IronicNickname: Beauty Smith, explicitly compared to calling a bald man "Curly."
* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence
* KarmaHoudini: White Fang sure does kill a lot of dogs...
** Aside from the ones he's forced to kill, that is.
* KickTheDog: Literally. Also beat the dog, starve the dog, jump up and down on the dog...
* KickTheSonOfABitch: White Fang killed Lip Lip while the latter was starving during a famine.
* [[KidsAreCruel Puppies Are Cruel]]: Seriously.
* LoveRedeems: Scott's patience with White Fang.
* MamaBear: Kiche repeatedly in the first part of the book. She even risks the wrath of a ''Mama Cat'' by killing lynx kittens to feed her pup.
** Subverted later when the pup tries to invoke this upon his first encounter with humans -- and is alarmed and dismayed when Kiche submits to them.
* MightyWhitey: When White Fang sees Caucasians for the first time, he immediately recognizes their superiority to his native 'gods' like Grey Beaver.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Inflicted on White Fang by other dogs, on White Fang by humans, ''by'' White Fang on other dogs, on him ''again'' by a bulldog, and finally by White Fang against an armed intruder.
* OneHitKill: The way bulldogs fight is described this way. White Fang spends most of the fight against the bulldog tearing his back and ribs to shreds. Cherokee and bulldogs like him bite the neck and hold onto it until whatever they're biting is dead. Cherokee did manage to get a neck bite on White Fang, and would have killed him if Weedon Scott hadn't intervened.
* PapaWolf: White Fang for his humans.
* ThePowerOfLove
* PreciousPuppy: Averted and later played straight.
* [[BabiesEverAfter Puppies Ever After]]
* [[PutOnABus Put On A Canoe]]: Kiche, though she makes a brief Cameo later.
* RealityIsUnrealistic: Modern readers may question how a bulldog would possibly be able to stand up to a wolf in a fight, but long ago bulldogs were powerful, athletic, and incredibly sturdy, very unlike the waddling, laid-back bulldogs of today.
* SlapSlapKiss: How Jack London portrays dog romance. Kiche and the female collie on the Whedon family farm are aggressive toward potential mates except when in heat, not to mention reluctant to allow them near their newborn pups.
* SlapYourselfAwake: Near the beginning, a drowsing character attaches a burning stick to his hand to keep from falling asleep, since he's surrounded by wolves and if the fire goes out, he's Wolf Chow.
* SoftGlass: Averted.
* UnreliableIllustrator: In the illustrated version of the book, when the bulldog is strangling White Fang with a neck bite, the accompanying illustrations show the bulldog burying his jaws in White Fang's neck, then standing a foot away, then standing a few ''yards'' away, then back to gnawing on the protagonist's throat. All the while the accompanying text has White Fang constantly in the Bulldog's jaws with Scott and Matt barely struggling to get the dog's mouth open. Also, while a lot of blood and gore is described in-text, none of it is shown.
* WouldntHitAGirl: Fighting a female dog goes against every one of White Fang's natural instincts.
* {{Xenofiction}}
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