"White Fang": a short summary. Jack London, "White Fang"

Among the huge number of works on the relation of people to animals, the novel "White Fang" differs in a special depth. Very brief content of this work can be started from the scene of an attack of a pack of hungry wolves on two travelers traveling on a dog sled.

The beginning of history

Wolves follow people on their heels, waiting for the right time to start hunting. Predators begin to take one dog after another. Surprised people notice that their dogs go for a large wolf, apparently, understands the dog's habits. They conclude that earlier this wolf lived among people and dogs. After the death of all dogs, one of the travelers becomes the victim of the pack, and the Indians rescue the second. It turned out that the assumptions of the travelers are confirmed. The wolf's parents were a wolf and a dog, and she really lived for a long time among dogs and Indians.

A pack of wolves, attacking the travelers, disintegrates, and our wolf, along with the old wolf, begins to look for food on his own. After a while their offspring are born, all the cubs, except one, perish. This little wolf is White Fang. A brief account of the story of his extraordinary and hard life awaits you further.

The old wolf dies in the tenacious paws of a trot. With his mother, Kichi the wolf cub begins to learn hunting, the main rule of which - if not you, then you. However, full of strength, a little wolf enjoys life at large.

The first meeting of White Fang with people

Fate gives him a meeting with people. Seeing these unusual creatures, the wolf cub shows obedience, following the ancient call implanted in him by the ancestors. But as soon as a man reaches out his hand to him, the wolf cub bites him and gets a strong blow to the head. From pain and horror, he begins to whine, calling for help wolf. Mother hurries to help her offspring, but here an Indian named Gray Beaver recognizes her dog Kichi in it and commands her imperiously. The amazed wolf cub sees how his proud mother-wolf crawls on her belly toward her former master. Now they both belong to the old Indian, who calls the wolf White Fang.

Life in the camp of Indians

Next we see how White Fang gets used to the new life among people. We will continue the summary of the novel with a description of the trials that a small wolf will encounter in an Indian settlement.

The owner of Kichi sells the she-wolf, and White Fang remains alone. It is difficult for him to adapt to the new conditions. People, sometimes cruel, sometimes just, dictate to him new laws of life. One of them is that he must always obey the Boss, and never, under any circumstances, try to bite him more.

In addition, he has to constantly fight with dogs, his colleagues do not want to recognize him as one of them, they consider him a stranger. He understands that in a fight, always the one who is stronger wins.

White Fang grows strong, dexterous, cruel and cunning. In his heart there is no place for kind feelings and the need for caresses, because he himself is deprived of them. But he knows how to run faster than anyone and to fight hardest of all, and really comes out victorious from numerous fights.

Escape and return of White Fang

The brief content of the book "White Fang" we will resume at the moment of the wolf escape from the Indians. During the transition of the Indians to another pasture, the young wolf decides to escape, but, being alone, can not resist the anguish and loneliness that seized him. He is forced to return to the owners.

On his return the young wolf learns the craft of a sled dog. After a while, he leads the team and ruled the brothers with determined determination, what makes them even more angry.

Working in a sled harness makes White Fang stronger, but turns it from a wolf into a dog. He sees the world as he sees, cruel and harsh, and from now on he will forever serve his master - Man.

With such a baggage of knowledge the childhood of a wolf cub named White Fang comes to an end. The summary goes on to describe his adult life.

White Fang and Handsome Smith

One day the owner of White Fang goes to the fort and takes a wolf with him. There are gold miners who buy furs from Indians. A strong wolf dog attracts the attention of Handsome Smith, who tries to persuade an Indian to sell him a dog, but he flatly refuses. Then Handsome Smith generously treats an Indian with alcohol, and he agrees to exchange White Fang for several bottles of alcohol.

"White Fang", a brief summary of the chapter about the life of the protagonist in Handsome Smith will cause the reader only pity and sympathy.

The new master was even more ruthless than before. He often brutally beats White Fang, he twice tries to escape, but both times Handsome Smith finds him. The dog has nothing to do but resign itself to and obey the master, hating him with all his heart.

Handsome Smith likes to amuse himself at dog fights and places White Fang there. His win-win triumph ends with a loss to the Bulldog. This fight nearly ended with the death of White Fang, engineer Weedon Scott rescued him, having opened the mouth of a bulldog. Then he persuaded Beauty Smith to sell him a dog. So White Fang had a third owner.

White Fang gains a new master

We continue to follow the story line, which holds Jack London. "White Fang" - a summary - omits all the details of the new life of White Fang, but includes the main events.

So, embittered by grievous trials, White Fang quite soon came to himself and showed Widon Scott all his fury. But the new owner refers to White Fang with patience and affection, awakening in the dog the feelings that were in him almost killed by a hopeless and cruel life.

The master tries to atone for the guilt of the people who so inhumanly treated White Fang. Once, when Scott has to suddenly leave, the dog suffers so much without it, which completely loses interest in life. And when the owner returns, White Fang for the first time shows him all his love, hugging his head. One day, Handsome Smith appears at Mr. Scott's house to secretly steal a dog, but White Fang could stand up for himself.

However, it's time for the engineer to return home to California. Scott is not sure that the dog, accustomed to the northern cold, will be able to live normally in an unusual heat. In the end, Scott decides to leave Fang. But the dog managed to get out of the house, breaking the window, and ran to the departing steamer. The owner takes the dog with him.

The Life of White Fang in California

The summary of the story "White Fang", as well as the work itself, shows the reader all the strength of good.

The life of White Fang continues in California, in the home of Widon Scott. Here the life of the dog changes completely. He meets a friend, a shepherd named Collie. White Fang is accustomed to Scott's children and begins to really love them, they also do not worship the soul. But he especially likes the master's father - Judge Scott. White Fang becomes the favorite and protector of the whole family of Widon.

Rescuing the judge

Once White Fang even saves the judge from imminent death from the hands of the once convicted cruel criminal Jim Hill. The dog bitten him, but he himself was seriously injured. Hill shot the dog three times, broke his hind paw and several ribs. White Fang is between life and death, doctors are sure that after such wounds the dog will not survive. But the amazing vitality and healthy organism of the dog, who grew up in the northern wilderness, draw him out of the embrace of death. White Fang recovers.

The summary of the novel "White Fang", no less than a complete work, makes us think first of all about human qualities.

The work ends in a tranquil scene, when the weakened dog, after a few wounds, staggers a little, enters the lawn, flooded with bright sunlight. Little puppies crawl to him, their offspring with Collie, and, warmed in the sun, he sinks into the memories of his life.