Show:
Plot Action
Themes and Connections
Grey, Beauty, and Weedon
Character Types
Our Old Friends, the Context Clues
100
What animal finally beats White Fang in the arena?
Bulldog
100
In how many states is dogfighting illegal?
All of them
100
The man who sets up the dogfighting situation
Beauty Smith
100
Kiche
Flat, Static
100
Mr. Jacques was expeditious, like a cheetah running across a plain. What method is this?
Comparison, fast
200
Initially, what person wants to give White Fang a chance to become non-violent?
Matt
200
What theme do Beauty Smith, Henry and Bill, and the Yukon outpost represent? (It's a theme and something London didn't like about society)...two possible answers
Man trying to conquer nature OR violence in a "civilized" world
200
What is the difference between Beauty Smith's treatment of WF, and Grey Beaver's treatment of WF
Grey Beaver commits violence for order, Beauty commits violence for the sake of violence
200
White Fang?
Round, Dynamic
200
The shape was trilateral. What type of context clue would I use for trilateral?
Structural, tri=three, lateral=side
300
What tragedy befalls the Native Camp, making White Fang leave for a while?
The famine
300
What character would Jack London probably compare himself to the most?
Weedon Scott
300
How does Beauty Smith acquire White Fang?
Takes advantage of Grey Beaver's drinking problem
300
Beauty Smith
Flat, Static
300
Steve Biko was a non-belligerent protester. He had seen this in people like Martin Luther King, Jr, and Gandhi, with their stand-ins, speeches, and calm resistance.
Example, non-violent
400
In the Yukon Camp, why do the dogs fresh off the boat attack White Fang?
They can sense the unknown wildness in him
400
White Fang's fight against the bulldog, his eventual killing of Baseek and Lip-Lip, the fact that he runs away during the famine and lives on his own, and the fact that he alone is alive from Kiche's first litter all point to what theme?
Survival of the fittest
400
How does WF fall in with the Natives in the first place?
They had owned Kiche, and they take them both back
400
Weedon Scott (think this one over CAREFULLY)
Round, Dynamic
400
The story was very monotonous, unlike the fast-moving, exciting story of the Hunger Games.
Contrasting, boring
500
What "sickness" befalls White Fang, why does this happen, and what is the cure?
Weedon Scott leaves, White Fang becomes depressed, Weedon comes back for White Fang
500
In the story, we see White Fang get more and more violent as he progresses through "civilized" culture, and eventually ends up dogfighting, where men are making money from pain and misery, and the dogs are treated poorly. This represents Jack London's hatred of what economic system? What system would he have preferred?
Capitalism, Socialism
500
Two parts: why are the men in the dogfighting ring afraid of Weedon Scott, and where does Scott live (city, state).
They are afraid because Scott is a powerful mining prospector with many connections. He lives in San Francisco, CA, in the suburbs.
500
Why are most of the characters in White Fang flat and static?
Easier to kill off, or remove from story, since the reader isn't attached
500
Susan B. Anthony was a staunch supporter of woman's suffrage. After all, the men already had their right to vote.
Appositive, voting rights