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e protection of his mother.He and his mother meet the first group of human beings.White Fang’s first god---Gray Beaver, an Indian geves him the name.He learns to obey the god,to be honest and to work for him.When he gives his loyalty to a mew god In the vast,reasonless wild an important change happens to him. “This was the ancient covenant the first wolf that came in from the wild entered into with man. And, like akk succeeding wolves and wild dogs The term was simple. For the possession of a flesh-and-blood god, he exchanged his own liberty, Food and fire,protection and companionship,were some of the god’s property, defended his body,worked for him, and obeyed him.”(White Fang,P102) In the less fierce world,White Fang becomes less of a demon than in the wild.Possibly he accepts it is a world of limitations.They are laws.To be obedient to them is to escape hurt and shield in the tepee of men. White Fang grows stronger,heavier and more compact as the months go by .His character is developing along the lines lais down by his environment.“His heredity was a life-stuff that may be likende to clay. It possessed many possibities,was capable of bing molded into many differevt forms.Environment served to model the clay, to give it a particular form.”.(White Fang,P107) So if White Fang had never come in to the first of man, the wild would have molded him into a true wolf .But the gods had given him a different enviromment,and he was molded into a dog that was rather wolfish, but that was a dog and mot a wolf. Being exchanged to Beauty Smith.When Gray Beaver took him to Fort Yukon for trade,White Fang saw his first white man and knew that they were to him another race of superior gods.He learned that there was hierarchy differences in gods.The white gods possessed greater mastery over matter than the gods he had known,including the mnost powerful one---Gray Beaver.He was”a child-god among these white-skinned ones”.He exchanged his best dog---White fang for whiskey ignorantly later,which proved that he was only“child-god”. Even between the whites,there existed discrimination.Ehite Fang could not realize this like men,because he only saw an abnormal god who was more ferocious than the wild,but not why he was different from his god---Gray Beaver.Beauty smith was a Sour-dough living in Fort Yukon..He did the coooking for the newcomers.He was a coware .But“all life likes pwer,and he was no exception.”Denied the expreesion fo power amongst his own kind,he fell back upon the lower creatures in a coware way .He enjoyed and delinhted in beating and tormenting White Fang and caged him for exhibiting as “the fighting wolf’.He trainde White Fang to kill other animals for fun.All made White Fang more ferocious so that he bedame the enemy of all things.“He was regarded as the most fearful of wild beast,and this was borne in to him through the bars of the cage.”His own terrrible ferocity was impressed by every word,every cautious acton of human beings.“It was so much added fuel to the flame of his fierceness.There could be but one result,and that was that his ferocity fed upon itself and increased.It was another instande of the possibility of his day,of his capacity for being molded by the pressure of environment.”(White Fang. P131) Being dominated by Weedon Scott Even the most ferocious anlimal.But there came a bulldog,which was tamed to be more fo a killer.White Fang was clung by the bulldog even to death.It was Weedon Scott who resued him form th