A review by planetshannon
White Fang by Jack London

3.0

I feel rather complicated about this one.

It feels like it's in part giving awareness on animal cruelty, which I get, but I also don't need the "lesson" of because I already believer of not being cruel to animals so this just felt painful a lot of the time.

I feel more complicated about what it was saying in terms the hierarchy of animal to "man". This was often when White Fang
Spoiler referred to, or perhaps "learned the lesson" that man was god. This was almost always in the context when man held and used the power to physically harm White Fang and other animals. All of that felt wrong, and it happened again and again. And we saw it taken to the extreme with one character but it was used by many. Why are all the others okay, but the one extreme bad? Plus, why would White Fang even have the concept of "god". He grew up with mostly wolves.
I thought it would be more about... wolves.

Anyhow, I will think on it more but overall wasn't a fun read. I get the perspective it was coming from, but rarely agreed with the method or the message - beyond, of course, harming animals is bad. Which is something I already whole-heartedly believe.