Mccandless White Fang

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Natural landscape almost entirely affects the course of McCandless’ life and journey as it attracts young adults such as McCandless and provide the obstacles needed for growth and revelations of reality. In the epigraph of Jack London’s White Fang, the wild is admittedly “the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild” where the land is personified to be “the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life”(9). The contrast of Jack London’s warning of the brutality of the wild and McCandless’ attraction to nature emphasizes the irony of McCandless’ glorification of Jack London. McCandless’ idealist nature causes him to mostly admire the grandeur and philosophical nature that the wild is described

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