Title: White Fang
Author: Jack London
Publisher: Dover Publications Inc. New York (paperback edition)
Published: 1991 (first publication 1906)
Me and my theme
1999/2000
Just like last year I chose the theme 'Love'. I did this because I think love is one of the most important things in life and I wanted to get more into the subject and read about other aspects of love. All through history people have achieved great things due to love: beautiful music has been composed, great paintings have been created and ordinary people turn into hero's when defending the country or person they love. For the love of their country people even sacrifice their lives. And love for their children turn mothers into fearless creatures when the children are in danger or risk being harmed.
There are many more aspects of love: like love for nature, love for animals etc. I found it interesting to read about different aspects of love and therefore I read the books I chose.
I really enjoyed chosing this theme again, because this way I can discover more about love.
Short summary
1999/2000
Book: White Fang
Author: Jack London
The story is about a wolfe named White Fang. Throughout the book you can read how he grows up and manages to stay alive. He loses trust in human beings, but then Weedon Scott enters his world and with a lot of patience Scott finds the key to White Fangs heart and becomes his 'love master'.
Motivation of choice
1999/2000
I chose this book because I saw the film which I really liked. When I saw the book in the library I was immediately interested. I always think that books are better then films, because you can use your own imagination and usually the story is explained more detailed. I think this book is going to be interesting to read: what is it like to live and survive in Alaska as a wolf. I always like to read about animals and in this book the main character is a wolf. This is a good choice for me and it'a good choice for 'me and my theme' as well, because what I remember from the movie was that a wolf, White Fang, is so attached to his master, that he doesn't want to be separated from him. This is out of love, trust and protection! I heard that the film is a little different from the book, but I'm sure that it isn't going to differ that much. I think I am really going to enjoy this book and I hope I'm going to make a good book report!
Experience report
1999/2000
I read the book White Fang and I chose this book because I saw the movie which I really liked and when I saw this book I was interested immediately. I chose this book because I like to read interesting things about animals and their environment. In this book you can read a lot about the wild and the Indians in Northern America. You can also read how a wolf stays alive and manages to stay alive during all the changes he has to go through.
I didn't know Jack London the author, however the book White Fang wasn't new to me. I saw the movie before I read the book and I remember how touched I was that a wolf can really love a human being so much, that he doesn't want to be separated from this person anymore. White Fang is allowed to go out into the wild again where he is born, but he returns to his master. I know that if an animal really trusts and loves you, he is willing to do anything for you and stay with you forever.
The story White Fang takes place in the Northern Territory, Alaska. I didn't know a lot about this part of America, but after I read the book I could imagine what it was like to live there as a human being, but also as a wolf. This is because the writer describes very well what it is like to live there and what Alaska looks like.
The main characters in this book are White Fang, Great Beaver, Beauty Smith and Weedon Scott. White Fang is born in the wild where he lives with his mother, who is half wolf half dog and his father, a wolf. You can read how he grows up and discovers all kinds of new things: what is dangerous and how to kill other animals. Then he and his mother are found by the Indians and Great Beaver becomes White Fang's master. He is taught what is good and what's bad. He learns how to behave, but also how to defend himself when he's attacked by other dogs of the herd. You can read what grief he has when his mother is taken away from him and you can almost feel the pain he has when crying for his mother at night. The relationship between White Fang and Great Beaver is good. Great Beaver is a very strict but just man. When White Fang does something wrong he is punished, but if he behaves well he gets rewarded with a piece of meat. Great Beaver really likes White Fang because he is strong and he has had White Fang from the time he was a puppy. Together they go through a lot, because at a certain point Great Beaver has problems because there isn't enough food for the Indians during winter time. The Indians even eat their own dogs. So White Fang flees into the woods to protect himself from being eaten, but then returns to his master. The reason for this is that he finds protection by the Indians and has become scared of the wild, because he is so used to be cared for.
Then one day he is sold to another man Beauty Smith. White Fang becomes very aggressive because Beauty Smith is very unkind to him and treats him badly. Then he gets a new master again: Weedon Scott, who first has to win White Fangs trust in humans back and when he manages to do that he has a friend for life. At the end of the book White Fang even risks his life for Weedon Smith because he wants to defend him from a very dangerous man who just got out of jail. This man wants to revenge himself at the man who sent him to jail, who is a member of Weedon Scott's family. So one night he intrudes Scott's house, but White Fang jumps straight for his throat. They fight and then White Fang kills the man. During the fight White Fang is also seriously injured. He has three bullet holes and broken ribs. Weedon Scott takes him to a vet and with a lot of patience and medical support he survives. A chance in one of a thousand!
I think Weedon Scott is a very friendly man and therefore he is the nicest character in this book. When White Fang is almost dying during a dog fight, Weedon Scott saves him and takes care of him as White Fang is very ill. The problem comes when White Fang gets well again, he acts very mean to Weedon Scott because he doesn't trust men anymore. Weedon Scott keeps trying very hard to win White Fang's trust and with a lot of patience he manages to do so. I think Weedon Scott is very good with animals, he is very sweet for White Fang. If he's naughty Weedon Scott doesn't hit him, but just raises his voice and that's much better. The pain of the beating is only felt on the skin but not inside the soul. When he takes White Fang to his home in San Francisco White Fang has a lot to learn. He must leave his master's family alone and he is not allowed to kill the chickens. Weedon Scott manages to teach him this quickly with simple things. For example by leading him through the chicken yard and checking White Fang with his voice. I think this was a real good solution and it worked well, because White Fang never touched a chicken again!
The person I really dislike is Beauty Smith. He is very ugly and nasty. He wants to buy White Fang from Great Beaver. At first great Beaver has enough money and doesn't want to sell White Fang for any price. But Beauty Smith finally knows how to get White Fang. He visits Great Beaver often and gives him a lot of whiskey. At a certain moment Geat Beaver needs more and he spends all of his money on liquor. Then he has to sell White Fang, because he needs the money and Beauty Smith offers him a good price. Beauty Smith treats
White Fang badly; he has to fight a lot with other dogs, he is locked in a cage while people laugh at him and nag him with sticks. This makes White Fang very angry. I felt very sorry for White Fang and I hated Beauty Smith. He doesn't have any respect for White Fang and keeps him only because he wants to make money with him in dog fights!
I think that White Fang had a lot of problems growing up. He had to learn so may different things: what's good and what's bad and also all the changes in his life made him change as well. The funny thing is that when he was with Great Beaver he only knew the meaning 'like'. With Beauty Smith it was 'hate' and with Weedon Scot he discovered love!
I think the story takes place about 80 years ago. People look for gold and during the end of the 1920's there was a major gold rush. People also travelled by sleighs, which is old-fashioned as well. Nowadays people travel by ski-jets which are much faster. These days Indians don't live in teepees anymore, but in small houses. I think it's good that the story took place so many years ago, because it is nice to see how the indians lived and how White Fang is treated by them. I think that white people would never take a wolf from the wild and mix it with a herd of domestic dogs. The only people who do that only want to make money out of a strong animal, just like Beauty Smith.
The story takes place in Alaska, the Northern part of America. At the end of the book White Fang lives in a village near San Francisco. I have been in America a few times, but I have never been in the Northern part of America and didn't know much about it when I started reading this book. By seeing the film and reading the book that part of America has become familiar to me. However I have been in San Francisco and I really enjoyed the city. Even though the story takes place a long time ago, it was nice to read about a place where I have been myself.
I think the book had to take place in Alaska, because this is where lots of wolves live. It was an interesting change when White Fang goes to San Francisco, the city, because it gives you good impression on how he feels, how frightened he is by all the buildings and cars. Everything is so different from the wild and he has great trouble adapting to his new life.
During the course of the book the four seasons, winter, spring, summer and autumn, are part of the story. This is a good choice, because you find out how wolves behave during various times of the year. In winter time they are hungry and you find out what they do to get food. In the beginning of the story two men, Bill and Henry, are travelling by sleigh and because the wolves are so hungry they aren't scared and come very close. You can read that they lose dogs who are eaten by the wolves and this is because White Fang's mother seduces them and at a certain moment Bill wants to go look for his dog who disappeared and he is killed as well. It was pretty fascinating to me. I never thought wolves would kill people for food, but now I found out that having no food can really drive you crazy and make you do things you would normally never do. When it's spring the wolves mate and all the animals that spent the winter elsewhere return, because everything begins to grow again. During the next winter White Fang is born and you can read that only the strongest puppies survive, because his brother and sister die.
I think it was a good thing to describe the different seasons, because now you have a better insight in a wolfe's life. It is part of the story. If you would leave the seasons out, the story wouldn't be as interesting, because this way you get more information about the wolves.
I followed the story through White Fang's eyes. He is the most important figure in the story and all his feelings, pain, grief and satisfaction, are very well described. Because of that I felt I had a bond with him and I think this is what the writer wants the reader to have. Take for instance the dog fights: they were described very well and I could almost feel the energy come up in myself, because he made me feel like I was White Fang. This is beacuse he describes White Fangs feelings and thoughts very well, but also how other people view White Fang. So you are looking at him and you are one with the wolf at the same time as well. This really gave me a good view of what was happening.
I think that in the first place the writer wants to teach us something about wolves, show us how they live, how they behave when they are living in a pack and how White Fang's mother treats the males. It was interesting to read this, because the writes explains how the female and male think and when they have puppies I realized she is so bossy because she wants to protect her pups. The writer also wants to tell us to treat animals with respect. That you shouldn't just hit them when you're mad, but use your voice instead. I think he wants us to believe that the way Weedon Smith treats White Fang is the right way. I feel the writer is absolutely right about this. A lot of people don't treat their animals with respect and don't pay enough attention to them. Many dogs stay alone in houses all day long and some people even tie their dogs to a tree when they go on summer vacation; when they get home they buy another puppy and this is repeated over and again. This kind of attitude really makes me mad! I think that if you take an animal you have to make sure that you have the time and space for it. Also you shouldn't just hit it to get rid of you own frustration! I also think that he wants to tell us to have patience with animals, like Weedon Scott has with White Fang. I always try to do this myself. I am now riding a young stallion, that I broke in myself and it's pretty hard, but I know that with a lot of patience he will work out fine in the future.
I like Jack London as a writer and if I have the time I would really like to read another book of him. Alaska, the Northern part of America, where the book takes place, is so detailed: the snow in winter, the dog sleds etc. that when I use my own fantasy I see a beautiful country side. This is why I would like to read another book that takes place in Alaska, but only if it is described as well as Jack London did. The time in which it takes is also interesting: you can imagine the gold mines and being on a sled pulled by dogs. Sometimes I wish the world I live in weren't so modern. I'd love to work with animals, stand on a sled or go grocery shopping by horse and cart. What I really liked about the book is that it leaves room for my own imagination and like in 'White Fang' imagine that I work around the teepeehs with dogs. Thinking about this I figured it would be nice to read another book that takes place in the same era as 'White Fang'. I would also like to read something else about wolves. Now that I have seen the film and read the book, they really got my attention!
Evaluation
1999/2000
This book was a really good choice! It was different from the film, but better. Alaska was described so well and also how the wolves survive; it was perfect! It was writteen very well. Nothing was difficult to read and understand, everything was described so detailed, the country side, White Fang's thoughts, it felt like I was actually part of the book! I always like making a book report, it gives me the opportunity to go deeper into the book and give my opinion on every detail. Usually I read a book and when I've finished it I don't think about it anymore, but by making a book report I can remember them for years!
With White Fang this will happen as well. This is because I really enjoyed the subject: how wolves live and survive in Alaska and how these wild animals can come to love human beings and become domesticated. I can recommend this book to others because this book is interesting and easy to read.
I give it a 9!
Verwerkingsopdracht
1999/2000
23rd February, 2000
18, Longwood Close
Coventry CV4 8JN
UK
Dear sir, madam,
Yesterday I finished reading 'White Fang' by Jack London. I would like to react to the story and especially to the character of Beauty Smith. This man is very evil and unkind and he really made me mad by treating White Fang so bad.
I think that a dog should not be nagged by sticks and be laughed at when sitting in a cage. It should be loved and handled just like a friend. A dog has a heart and soul as well. It can feel pain and be miserable! How would Beauty Smith feel to be locked up all day with hardly any food. He would go crazy!
Beauty Smith only wanted White Fang for the money. He didn't care if the dog was unhappy, as long as he would fight and kill his opponent. Beauty Smith saw White Fang as a money maker; as a fighting product, not as a dog with a heart.
I think one should treat animals with respect and be there if they need you or when they are unhappy. People should not abandon them, because 'they are worthless'. I'm sure Beauty Smith would have done that by the time White Fang would have grown older and weaker. If you take an animal you have got to be sure that you are able to take care of it and treat it with love and respect until it dies.
I think Beauty Smith deserves to be locked up all of his life. First he get Great Beaver drunk so he has to sell White Fang because he needs the money. Great Beaver was a good and just master for White Fang. He didn't punish him when something happened that wasn't White Fang's fault. He loved White Fang in his own way. Then Beauty Smith buys White Fang and treats him very badly. I got furious by reading this!
By writing this to you, I wanted to remind people not to forget their animals and treat them well. If you are kind to them, you have a friend for life!
Jack London
"I would rather be ashes than dust!
I would rather that my spark should burn out
in a brilliant blaze
than it should be stifled by dryrot.
I would rather be a superb meteor,
every atom of me in magnificent glow,
than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time"
Jack London (1876 - 1916)
These words are typical of Jack London: He loved life. He didn't want to have a boring life, but one full of excitement. When you look at what he has done in life this is evident: he was a sailor, a factory worker, a writer, a rancher and also a gold digger. He loved to ride horses, tell stories, travel, and he smoked and drank a lot. This life style finally killed him: he died in 1916 at the age of 40, of kidney failure. I think it is fascinating to see a man live this way, not afraid to die, but wanting to enjoy life to the fullest. I don't think many people do that, because they rather live a long time. But Jack London rather lived one day full of excitement, then ten days full of boredom.
One of the main characters in 'White Fang' is Weedon Scott, also a gold digger and so you know that he writes from experience about this kind of life. I think Weedon Scott is basically Jack London himself, because Weedon Scott really loved animals. He had a lot of patience with White Fang and taught him a lot. Then one day he takes White Fang to San Francisco where his family lives. Jack London is also very good with animals; he raised a lot of animals on his ranch and he also lived in San Francisco. I think that when he was a gold digger and spent one winter by himself in a hut in Alaska, he must have fantasized about what it would be like to tame a wolf and take him back to civilization. It is typical of Jack London to come up with this, because he likes to do extraordinary things. Too bad this book was only fiction!
About Jack London
Considered by many to be America's finest author, Jack London, whose name at birth was John Griffith Chaney, was born "south of the slot" on Market Street in San Francisco, California, on January 12, 1876. It is believed that he is the illegimate son of William Chaney, an itinerant astrologer and journalist, who deserted Jack's mother, Flora, a spiritualist, before he was born. Flora married John London, a Civil War veteran who had recently moved to San Francisco, eight months after Jack was born. Jack did not learn the true circumstances of his birth until he was in his early twenties. Much of his youth was spent in Oakland, California, on the waterfront.
Jack had little formal schooling. Initially, he attended school only through the 8th grade, although he was an avid reader, educating himself at public libraries, especially the Oakland Public Library under the tutelage of Ina Coolbrith, who later became the first poet laureate of California. In later years (mid-1890s), Jack returned to high school in Oakland and graduated. He eventually gained admittance to U.C. Berkeley, but stayed only for six months, finding it to be "not alive enough" and a "passionless pursuit of passionless intelligence".
Jack's extensive life experiences included: being a laborer, factory worker, oyster pirate on the San Francisco Bay, member of the California Fish Patrol, sailor, railroad hobo, and gold prospector (in the Klondike from 1897-1898). In his teens, he joined Coxey's Army in its famous march on Washington, D.C., and was later arrested for vagrancy in Erie County, New York. As a journalist, Jack covered the Russo-Japanese War for the Hearst newspapers in 1904, and in 1914, he covered the Mexican Revolution for Collier's.
It was during his cross-country travels that he became acquainted with socialism, which for many years, became his "holy grail". He became known as the "Boy Socialist of Oakland" because of his passionate street corner oratory. In fact, he unsuccessfully ran for mayor of Oakland several times as the socialist party candidate.
In 1900, Jack married his math tutor and friend, Bess Maddern. It was a Victorian marriage typical of the time, based on "good breeding", not love. With Bess, he had two daughters - Joan and Bess ("Becky"). Following his separation from Bess in 1903, he married his secretary, Charmian Kittredge, whom he considered his "Mate Woman" and with whom he found true love. Together, they played, traveled, wrote and enjoyed life. Their one child, Joy, only lived for thirty-eight hours.
In 1907, with his second wife, Charmian, Jack sailed the Pacific to the South Seas in the Snark, which became the basis for his book, The Cruise of the Snark. With Charmian at his side, he also developed his "Beauty Ranch" on 1,400 acres of land in Glen Ellen, California.
By his death at age forty on November 22, 1916, Jack had been plagued for years by a vast number of health problems, including stomach disturbances, ravaging uremia, and failing kidneys. His death certificate states that he died of uremic poisoning.
Jack was among the most publicized figures of his day. In his lectures, he endorsed socialism and women's suffrage. He was also one of the first celebrities used to endorse commercial products, such as grape juice and men's suits.
Young Jack London's exceptional brightness and his optimistic, bouyant personality eventually combined to transform his many experiences into a working philosophy of service and survival. He became the personification for his readers of many of the virtues and ideals of a turn-of-the-century Western American man and was the country's first successful working class writer.
Jack London . . . The Writer
Once Jack had resolved himself to succeed as an author, his diligent habits and innate skills catapulted him far beyond most of his literary peers in both perspective and content. By following a strict writing regimen of 1,000 words a day, he was able to produce a huge quantity of high quality work over a period of eighteen years.
Jack had become the best-selling, highest paid and most popular American author of his time. He was prolific: fifty-one of his books and hundreds of his articles had been published. He had written thousands of letters. Many additional works have been published posthumously. His most notable books include The Call of the Wild (originally entitled "The Sleeping Wolf") which was published in 1903, The Iron Heel, White Fang, The Sea-Wolf (originally entitled "Mercy of the Sea"), The People of the Abyss (a sociological treatise about the slums of London, England), John Barleycorn, Martin Eden, and The Star Rover. His short story, "To Build A Fire", is considered to be an all-time classic. His writings have been translated in several dozen languages and to this day continue to be widely read throughout the world.
This American literary genius brilliantly and compassionately portrayed his life and times, as well as the neverending struggles of man and nature. Millions of avid readers have been thrilled by his stories of adventure. Authors and social advocates have been inspired by his heartfelt prose. Nevertheless, many of his life experiences were more exciting than his fiction.
Jack London . . . The Sailor
No man has ever loved to sail more than Jack London. Even as a very young boy, fishing with his stepfather in small boats, his head would fill with visions of tropical islands and faraway places. As he grew up, he occasionally rented boats with money earned from his many part-time jobs. At fifteen, with the financial assistance of "Aunt Jenny" Prentiss, Jack bought a sloop, the Razzle Dazzle, in order to escape the life of the "work beast". He became an illegal oyster pirate, and before long, had earned the title of "Prince of the Oyster Pirates"; he made more money in one week than he was able to earn in his first full year as a professional writer. Realizing that the life of an oyster pirate frequently ended in prison or death, he reformed and became a California Fish Patrol deputy.
During his lifetime, Jack sailed on a variety of ships including: the sealing schooner Sophia Sutherland to Japan (on which he served as an able-bodied seaman); on the steamship SS Umatilla and the City of Topeka (to Alaska); the RMS Majestic (to England); the SS Siberia (as correspondent during the Russo-Japanese War); took a sampan to Korea; bought and sailed the Spray; designed, built, and sailed the Snark to Hawaii and the South Seas; returned form Tahiti to San Francisco on the SS Mariposa; sailed on the ketch Minota near Tahiti; sailed from Australia to Ecuador on the Tymeric; cruised on the San Francisco Bay and environs in the Roamer; sailed from Seattle to California on the City of Pueblo; sailed on the Dirigo; took the US Army transport Kilpatrick to Mexico (to write about the Mexican Revolution); sailed on fishing boats; stayed on a houseboat; visited the hospital ship USS Solace, the repair ship USS Vestal, and the battleships New York, Arkansas, and Mississippi; returned to Galveston on the transport Ossabow; sailed to Hawaii on the Matsonia; and returned to California on the SS Sonoma.
Jack London . . . The Gold Prospector
Overcome with "Klondike fever," Jack departed from San Francisco on the SS Umatilla on July 25, 1897, accompanied and bankrolled by his much older brother-in-law, Captain Shepard, who returned home after only two days on the rugged Alaska trails. With nearly 2,000 pounds of required equipment - including warm garments, food, mining implements, tents, blankets, Klondike stoves, and a copy of Miner Bruce's Alaska, Jack entered the Yukon Territory by way of the Dyea River and the notorious Chilcoot Pass.
Jack moved into a cabin and staked a claim on Henderson Creek in early November of 1897, after a month of prospecting. During the long winter which followed, he became well-known to his fellow prospectors for his storytelling ability.
In May 1898, he developed a severe case of scurvy from lack of fresh fruit and vegetables; he could no longer work his claim. Desperately needing immediate medical attention, he anxiously awaited the melting of the ice blocking the Yukon River. He eventually did receive some medical help but was advised to return home. On June 28, he arrived in St. Michael, after making his way in a small boat down 1,500 miles of the Yukon River. From St. Michael, he sailed home.
Jack London gained a tremendous amount of insight and perspective while in Alaska and the Klondike. Although he had not discovered much gold, he had uncovered a Mother Lode of experience from which he would draw material for his future novels and stories.
Upon his return to Oakland, California, he discovered that his stepfather, John London, had died. At the age of 22, he now shouldered the responsibility of supporting his mother and his stepnephew. Despite tackling every job opening possible, he could not find steady work. In desperation, he sold many of his belongings and dove into writing. He was talented and prolific, yet at first all of his manuscripts were rejected. In early December 1898, he sold his first short story, an Alaskan tale entitled, "To The Man On Trail". His writing career was launched.
Jack London . . . the Rancher
"I ride over my beautiful ranch. Between my legs is a beautiful horse.
The air is wine. The grapes on a score of rolling hills are red with autumn flame.
Across Sonoma Mountain, wisps of sea fog are stealing.
The afternoon sun smolders in the drowsy sky.
I have everything to make me glad I am alive."
In 1905, while living with Charmian at Wake Robin Lodge in Glen Ellen, California, Jack London decided to settle permanently in the Valley of the Moon. In June, he purchased his first piece of real estate - the Hill Ranch - 130 beautiful acres of trees, fields, springs, streams, canyons, hills and abundant wildlife. After six additional land purchases, Jack London's "Beauty Ranch" eventually totaled 1,400 acres and consisted of seven parcels of land bought between 1905 and 1913.
Jack loved ranch life. At Beauty Ranch, he raised many animals such as prize bulls, horses and pigs. He cultivated a wide variety of crops, including forty acres of wine grapes which were formerly part of the Kohler-Frohling Winery. By damming a stream that crossed the property, Jack built a lake for irrigation and recreation. He introduced terracing and green water mulching. He produced record yields of oat hay on acreage that had been considered overfarmed. He experimented with innovative ideas such as growing spineless cactus which was developed by his friend, the “Plant Wizard”, Luther Burbank (who lived in nearby Santa Rosa), for use as a cattle feed in arid regions; unfortunately, the cactus was not completely spineless and could not be used for feed. He imported thousands of Australian eucalyptus trees hoping the wood could be used for hardwood lumber and pier pilings, but the wood was found to be too soft. Jack’s “Pig Palace” was the showplace of the county. It allowed one man to feed up to two hundred hogs. And, his ranch’s concrete silos were the first in California.
The ranch was also the building site for the majestic Wolf House. Constructed completely with native redwood trees, locally-quarried boulders, volcanic rock and blue slate, Wolf House took more than two years to build. Only a few days before Jack and Charmian were to move in, the house tragically burned due to a careless oversight by a workman; only the walls were left standing.
You can visit and enjoy Jack London’s Beauty Ranch today. It is now a California State Historic Park which includes the House of Happy Walls museum, the Pig Palace, Jack London’s grave, the Lake, the Wolf House ruins, and more.
When you look at Jack London's life, you see that also he had become a victim of love. He loved Ruth Morse so much that when she committed suicide he became very depressed and committed suicide as well. I think people need to love someone; it is an emotion that plays an important part in life. When this feeling is very strong and it then disappears out of your life because this person dies, your soul just can't handle it.
Ruth Morse committed suicide because she became disillusioned over Jack London's good fortune and I can imagine that this made it twice as hard for Jack London to handle her death. Of course he felt guilty and I think that he imagined that if she didn't want to live because of him, he wasn't supposed to live anymore either. He didn't want to live without her in his life anyway.
In the book White Fang risks losing his life for Weedon Scott, because when Jim Hall want to hurt Scott's family, White Fang kills him. During the fight White Fang gets shot a few times and almost dies. I think he did this because Weedon Scott made him a happy wolf agaim. White Fang loved Weedon Scott and the family and before I forget let me say this: Weedon Scott saved him from being killed during a dog fight and earned White Fang's love and trust. I'm sure White Fang never forgot this and he wanted to defend his 'love master' no matter what!
I think loving someone or something is very important, whether it is another person or an animal, it is part of life and you can't live without it!
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