Featuring London's signature Klondike setting, White Fang, however, introduces a location that actually brings to life questions about the widely accepted duality of nature vs. It is a story's location that often delineates this great nature/culture divide.
Instead, as London portrays him, White Fang is born into a state in which even instincts are learned or constructed as opposed to natural or innate. After reading White Fang and navigating the book's portrayal of "nature" and "culture," however, one cannot help but to ask: What actually is nature? And what is culture? In fact, one could argue that White Fang is not a reversal of The Call of the Wild-that is, the story of a wolf's civilization-because White Fang never really is transformed from a "natural" state to a domestic, "cultured" state. "culture" (a domesticated, nurturing environment). London's intentions to showcase the "development of domesticity, faithfulness, love, morality …" are based on the basic duality of "nature" (the uncivilized wild) vs. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1988 Guiding Questions In this lesson, students will explore images from the Klondike and read White Fang closely to learn how to define and differentiate these terms, ultimately presenting their findings as “nature and culture detectives.” Middle school readers of this famous novel, therefore, have the perfect opportunity to become nature and culture detectives. Instead of the devolution or de-civilization of a dog, I’m going to give the evolution, the civilization of a dog-development of domesticity, faithfulness, love, morality, and all the amenities and virtues.” London’s portrayal, however, results in a complication of the fundamental terms “nature” and “culture” in White Fang. He writes, “I’m going to reverse the process. In a letter dated December 5, 1904, to his publisher George Brett, Jack London explains that he wrote White Fang as a companion piece to The Call of the Wild, his famous story about the transformation of a domestic dog into an animal who answers the natural “call” of the wild.
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