Презентация, доклад на тему Белый Клык. Дж. Лондон

The Moscow secondary school
№1039.

THEME: My favourite book in
English.

Audience:
Anastasiya Dobrodeeva, 8 “A” grade.

Adviser:
Elena Mikhailovna Azarenkova.

most famous American writer.

Born: John Griffith Chaney, in January 12, 1876, San Francisco, California, United States.

Died: November 22, 1916 (aged 40)
Glen Ellen, California, United States.

Occupation: Novelist, journalist, short story writer and essayist.

Literary movement; Realism and Naturalism.

“A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.”

He wrote about a hard life, animals and strong people. He loved animals and strong people. Wolves were very important to London. They were strong and wild, and they fought hard. He liked this in animals – and people.

London at the age of nine with his dog Rollo, 1885.

He learned only about hate. Nobody gave him love, so he did not learn about that.

The Father Wolf died and the Mother Wolf had to feed and defend her wolf-cubs herself.

White Fang loved nobody, but he had to come to man’s home. He felt afraid but he walked slowly into the firelight.

was wild. He was dangerous to them. White Fang liked the fights, but he was not happy. He loved nobody. Everybody hated him.

the ground. The dog bit into his neck. Suddenly Scott, a tall young man and another man Matt helped to pull White Fang’s neck out from the dog’s teeth.

Beauty Smith came back with a large stick and hit White Fang hard with his stick. White Fang fell to the ground. Beauty Smith enjoyed hurting White Fang.

to face with White Fang. White Fang felt a very strong love for him and suddenly he pushed his head between Scott’s arm and body. Scott’s eyes shone. “This wolf is a dog. Look at him!” said Matt. White Fang was very happy.

dogs and watched them. He put his nose next to one of the little dogs’ and washed its face. Then he felt weak again and lay down. But then he closed his eyes and went to sleep in the sun.

animals and the equally violent world of humans. The book also explores complex themes including morality and redemption.

White Fang grows to become a savage, morose, solitary, and deadly fighter, "the enemy of his kind”.

The story ends with White Fang relaxing in the sun with the puppies he had fathered with the sheep-dog Collie.


The other works by Jack London about animals: The Sea-Wolf, The Abysmal Brute, Son of the Wolf, The Turtles of Tasman and others.

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