The Wolf Dog of Canada
Authors Note: I wrote about the book “White Fang” by Jack London because I really like the way he writes. The main character was faced with a lot of bullying and out casting.
He moved swiftly through the forest dodging every tree and stick on the moist ground. He could hear the panting from the big fat rabbit trying to escape the intelligent wolf dog. The rabbit ran out of the forest to find a huge wall of stone when all of a sudden White Fang trotted out of the tree line growling and showing his sharp white teeth. As he got closer he pounced on the rabbit and ripped at his throat until the small mammal was dead. When he was marching back to his cave he found an Indian tribe who took him to be trained for a sled dog.
That was the beginning scene in “White Fang”. Jack London the author tells the story in the dog’s point of view which gives us a look how animals view humans.
When White Fang was in the Indian tribe he was considered as an outcast. The bullying from the other dogs in the tribe made the wolf dog a strong, smart, and cunning dog. Every day the other dogs would challenge White Fang to a battle and most the time won but slowly but surely White Fang would win the battle in other words he eliminated the competition. Eventually not even the biggest and strongest dogs would dare to confront him for a fight.
Bullying these days can do a lot of damage too many people, not just the person you’re doing it to. Almost 30 percent of teens in the United States are estimated to be involved in school bullying. That’s over 5.7 million people getting treated like White Fang and sometimes worse then what he received. Many schools around the USA are making ABC’s which stand for anti bully clubs. These clubs help the people who are getting bullied and stop the bullies from harming the kids. The biggest reasons why bullies bully is because they have low self-esteem and there is something wrong with their families.
White Fang was sold by his Indian owner because he had no money for his family. This cruel man named Beauty Smith was the man who bought the dog but he didn’t want him for a pet he wanted him for a fighting dog. He was the best fighting dog in the Yukon Territory so the men nicknamed him the “Fighting Wolf”. All this fighting made White Fang a very mean, frighten, and ferocious dog. When he was fighting he fell and the other dogged clamped on White Fang’s neck. These two men came in and saved White Fang from his death. The men thought he could never be trained like a normal dog but eventually they were able to have the dog sit on their lap and be around the whole family.
The book shows that anyone who was bullied and is scared can be formed back to their regular personality. All in all we need to stop bullying from happening in the first place because the book “White Fang” shows exactly what will happen if people get bullied.
