Josh Sales English 101 White Fang During peoples lives they can be influenced due to the emotions and feelings around them. In the book White Fang by Jack London, White Fang is influenced by three different emotions. The first influence on White Fang was the wild. Another influence on White Fang was fear. A third influence on White Fang was pure hatred. These influences can all be related to similar emotions in my life.
The wild’s influence on White Fang is similar to influences in my life. The wild influenced White Fang many different ways throughout his life. One way that the wild has influenced White Fang was when he was a young pup and coming out of the cave for the first time, all the sounds and things that he couldn’t understand brought about in him a strange feeling that he would never forget. Another way that the wild influenced White Fang was by calling him out and away from the fires and tents of the Indian Village. ‘It was like something was calling him, urging him to run free through the meadows and play in the streams, this was the wild and his White Fangs home’ (124).
This feeling that White Fang was given when he was born, helps to lead him through life and teach him the dangers of the unknown. The third and most dramatic example of the wild’s influence on White Fang happened late in the book after Weedon Scott had met White Fang. White Fang was torn between his new found feeling of love and the way of life in the wild that he had enjoyed and mastered throughout his life. This proves the strength that the wild has on the creatures who live in it. The wild has also had a small effect on my life. The wild while not as su vier as the wild in White Fang has shaped me into a nature lover, ever since I was little I would always wonder to my grandparents woods and climb trees and just play there until I was forced to go home.
Another example of the wilds influence on myself is by, the constant wanting to leave Monticello and travel down to Kentucky, where we have a house on a lake, so that I can be alone with all the things I have grown to love. The third example of the wilds influence on my life is the constant searching for something new and exciting that I have never done before. These are all ways that the wild has influenced my life. White Fangs dealings with the wild have had a similar effect to the dealing with the wild in my life. A second emotional influence that White Fang has had that is similar to mine, is fear. White Fang’s dealings with fear has changed his life in many different ways.
One example of fear happened when White Fang ran into the weasel right after he had got out of his cave. He had never really known pain before. Another example of fear came during the battle between White Fangs mother and the lynx. White Fang was angry at first but after having his shoulder split to the bone he became filled with fear. The third and most dramatic showing of fear was while his new master, Weedon Scott had left for the summer. White Fang was so afraid of loosing the love master that he did not eat or sleep for weeks.
‘White Fang, who had never known sickness in his life, became sick. He became very sick – so sick that Matt was finally compelled to bring him inside the cabin’ (218).
This shows how White Fangs fear of loosing Scott takes over his body to the pint were he can no longer survive by himself. These are all ways that fear has influenced White Fangs life. Fear has also played a major role in the decisions that I have made throughout my life. One example of how fear has influenced my life happened a long time ago.
I fell into our pool and sucked in about half of the water, after I was sent to the hospital, I stayed out of the water for about three years. Another example of fears influence on me happens every time I go Wakeboarding, when ever I try to so something new I usually get hurt really bad. This tends to keep me doing tricks that I already know for fear that I will get hurt. The third and most influential example of fear will hit me in a year when I move off to college I, for the first time, will be totally on my own, having to come up with my own solutions to every problem I have, with no help from anyone else. These are all ways that fear has made an impact on the decisions I have made throughout my life.
White Fang and myself have let fear change the courses of our lives. The third emotion that played a role in influencing both White Fang and myself is hatred. White Fang hatred for things changed his life for ever. The first example of hatred influencing White Fang is when he meets Lip-lip.
Before long he has developed a hatred for him which causes him to spend most of his childhood alone and with no one to play with. Another example of hatred in White Fangs life is when he is being kept captive by Beauty Smith. All of Beauty’s taunting, poking, beating, and laughing at White Fang brought out a hatred that was as pure as gold. This hatred grew so terrible that it flashed out against every living thing. White Fangs hatred for Beauty was so grate that ‘the mere sight of him was sufficient to send him into transports of fury. And when they came to close quarters, and he had been beaten back by the club, he went on growling and snarling and showing his fangs.
The last growl could never be extracted from him. No matter how terribly he was beaten, he had always another growl; and when Beauty Smith gave up and withdrew, the defiant growl followed after him, or White Fang sprang at the bars of the cage bellowing his hatred’ (180).
This shows how White Fangs hatred would leave him to abandon all his wisdom and sense and attack in pure rage. These are all ways that hatred has influenced White Fang throughout his life. Hatred has also played a small part in my life. One way that hatred has influenced me happened just a few day ago when my hatred for a girl caused me to say something mean and rude in the hallway, when I normally wouldn’t have said it.
Another way that hatred has influenced me happened last year when a former friend of mine made me and Aaron Newton so made that we took his wake board and broke it in half and sank his boots in the bottom of the lake. The third and most dramatic display of hate happened a few years ago when I said a few choice words to my step mom that got me kicked out of my house and sent to live with my mom. This was something that just fueled my hatred for her, by blaming her for what happened and causing the whole deal. These are all examples of how hatred has influenced me on some of the choices I have made during my life. White Fangs dealings with hatred have been somewhat similar to those that I have encountered during my life. White Fang has been influenced in many of the same ways that I have been influenced throughout my life.
One of these influences was the wild that pulled on him his whole life. The second was a fear that kept him from enjoying many of life’s great things and the third was a pure hatred for several different things during his life. Even though White Fang is not a true story it can still be related to peoples lives today.