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''White Fang'' is a 1906 novel written by [[Jack London]], often published together with ''[[The Call of the Wild]]'' nowadays. Whereas the latter 1903 novella is the story of a tame dog adapting to the wild, ''White Fang'' is the story of how the titular wild one-quarter-dog-three-quarters-wolf becomes tamed.

The novel starts with two men and their dog sled team being pursued by a wolf pack in the Northland Wild. Desperate for food during a famine, the wolves eventually kill all of the dogs and one of the men before the other is rescued. The starving pack eventually splits up, the She-Wolf who lured the sled dogs to their doom going off with her mate, whom the narrator refers to as [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|One Eye]]. The two raise a litter of pups, only for One Eye and all the litter except one to die. The She-Wolf and her surviving pup eventually meet up with a group of Inuits; one of them, Grey Beaver, recognizes the She-Wolf as Kiche, his brother's runaway half-wolf-half-dog, and takes possession of her and her pup, whom he names White Fang.

The novel starts with two men and their dog sled team being pursued by a wolf pack in the Northland Wild. Desperate for food during a famine, the wolves eventually kill all of the dogs and one of the men before the other is rescued. The starving pack eventually splits up, the She-Wolf who lured the sled dogs to their doom going off with her mate, whom the narrator refers to as [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|One Eye]]. The two raise a litter of pups, only for One Eye and all the litter except one to die. The She-Wolf and her surviving pup eventually meet up with a group of Inuits; one of them, Grey Beaver, recognizes the She-Wolf as Kiche, his brother's runaway half-wolf-half-dog, and takes possession of her and her pup, whom he names White Fang.

So begin White Fang's lessons in cruelty and mastery. The puppy pack he now belongs to see him as a wolf and treat him as an enemy. The abuse he endures from them, particularly the leader Lip-lip, makes him both stronger and more vicious, gradually turning him into a brutal, savage fighter. Nevertheless, he adapts to the laws of his new surroundings and develops a loyalty and respect for Grey Beaver, who eventually sells Kiche and takes White Fang to his trading post at Fort Yukon.

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* [[The Power of Love]]

* [[Babies Ever After|Puppies Ever After]]

* [[Put On a Bus|Put On A Canoe]]: Kiche, though she makes a brief Cameo later.

* [[Put on a Bus|Put On A Canoe]]: Kiche, though she makes a brief Cameo later.

* [[Reality Is Unrealistic]]: Modern readers may question how a bulldog would possibly be able to stand up to a wolf in a fight, but long ago bulldogs were powerful, athletic, and incredibly sturdy, very unlike the waddling, laid-back bulldogs of today.

* [[Slap Slap Kiss]]: The female dog on the farm that bullies White Fang seduces him when she goes into heat and goes right back to disliking him after giving birth to his puppies.