Post #5

I finished Reading White Fang, and I have started to read The Iron Heel and I have read to page 120

*spoiler alert!*

White fang is about a wolf who's mother is a dominate female she wolf. The she wolf teaches her pup about the world and tries to provided him food, but food is very scarce. One day the pup comes across a group of Indians, the she wolf tries to save her pup from them, but in the end they are captured by the Indians because the she wolf used to be a dog belonging to the that Indian tribe. One of the Indians names the pup white fang. The indians put White Fang into a pen with the other puppies. All of the other puppies hate him and he is attacked constantly. Because of this he becomes very strong and savage fighter. A while later he is sold by the Indians to dog fighter. Every dog that comes before white fang is defeated until the dog fighter brings out a pitbull. The pitbull rips a big gash in White Fangs neck. Then a rich miner,Weedon Scott, comes and saves him from death. Scott eventually returns to california. It turns out that the end of the this book resembles the begging of Call of the Wild because the both are in the same location, the santa clara valley. And both have Jugeges for masters. White fang has Judge Scott, Wile buck in Call of the Wild master was Judge Miller. They're are too many similarities to be over looked.

So far I have Only read a the first few chapters of The Iron Heel and I must say that not alot has happened. The book is written from the pont of view of a woman named Avis Everhard. It is a her journal that she was writing around 2600 AD, and was eventually found many centuries later. The book so far pushes the authors, Jack London, views on society and his favorable opinion of socialism. But so far I am enjoying this book, it was a surprise to me that The Iron Heel was going to have elements of a science fiction book.


The authors political view I think greatly affected his writings and his views on society. For my american author paper I would like the focus on something to do with society. Because all 2.5 books that i have read have been on society, either the return to society in White Fang, the running away from society in Call of the Wild, or the views people have on society in The Iron Heel. I really like how Jack London is able to use society to tell so many different storys.