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jedi_indyjones 's review for:
The Call of the Wild / White Fang
by Jack London
Jack London has crafted two amazing stories that, while depicted through animals are completely about human nature. Both stories illustrated the cultural shifts that the main characters respectively had to adapt to as well as the brutality of nature and the comforts of man. Jack London, in these two tales, shows us through Buck and White Fang the nature of our own being. We fight our own instincts and wrestle with trust and the brutality of the world we live in. We have to survive and trust others and at our own peril. Love wins out and in both stories, taming the hearts that can act out on instinct from experience. London wrote these during a time of very big ideological ideas being discussed and you will find elements in this book from Nietzsche, Marx, and Darwin. I think that is part of the book's brilliance in showing this anthropomorphically.