# White Fang — Character guide

> Key figures in White Fang by Jack London.

- [White Fang](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/white_fang_se/characters/white_fang.md): Raised in the Indian camp and the fighting pits, White Fang knows the world as a place of toil, blows, and meat, where affection does not exist and hands are things that hurt. What he has never been given is a kind word,
- [The Cub](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/white_fang_se/characters/the_cub.md): Born in a cave to a ferocious mother, the cub is learning the law of meat when he first meets the two-legged animal that is lord over living things. Instinct splits him between fight and yield, and his compromise — a sna
- [Henry](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/white_fang_se/characters/henry.md): Henry travels the Klondike with his partner Bill and a dwindling team, and the wilderness is picking them off one dog at a time. Where Bill wants to chase the she-wolf down, Henry reads the trail and knows better — the p
- [Bill](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/white_fang_se/characters/bill.md): A musher who is killed by the wolf pack while traveling with Henry.
- [Grey Beaver](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/white_fang_se/characters/grey_beaver.md): Grey Beaver owns White Fang the way he owns his dogs and his goods, administering justice with a blow and rewarding merit only by withholding one. He never caresses, never speaks a kind word, and so teaches his dog that 
- [Weedon Scott](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/white_fang_se/characters/weedon_scott.md): Scott arrives at the Klondike camp to find a creature that has been through hell and expects nothing but blows, and he responds with patience, meat, and the strange command to growl. He is undemonstrative himself, which 
- [Matt](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/white_fang_se/characters/matt.md): Matt has handled dogs long enough to know that a creature fresh out of Beauty Smith's possession cannot be expected to come out a white and shining angel. When White Fang bites him and kills Major, Matt refuses to hold i
- [Beauty Smith](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/white_fang_se/characters/beauty_smith.md): Beauty Smith owns White Fang during the novel's darkest stretch, exhibiting him in a Dawson cage and hauling him into the woods at night for fights to the death. Where other men might break an animal's spirit, Smith meet
- [One Eye](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/white_fang_se/characters/one_eye.md): The father of White Fang, a fierce old wolf who mates with Kiche.
- [Lip-lip](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/white_fang_se/characters/lip_lip.md): A bullying puppy who torments White Fang in the Indian camp.
- [Cherokee](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/white_fang_se/characters/cherokee.md): A bulldog who nearly kills White Fang in a vicious fight before Weedon Scott intervenes.
- [Collie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/white_fang_se/characters/collie.md): A female sheepdog who initially dislikes White Fang but later becomes his companion.
- [Kiche](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/white_fang_se/characters/kiche.md): Kiche belongs to two worlds: she has known the fires and hands of the gods, yet she hunts and dens in the Wild, raising White Fang in a cave where hunger and the lynx are constant. Her old domestication lingers in her — 
- [Jim Hall](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/white_fang_se/characters/jim_hall.md): A dangerous escaped convict who seeks revenge on Judge Scott and is killed by White Fang.
- [Baseek](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/white_fang_se/characters/baseek.md): An older dog in the Indian camp who challenges White Fang.
- [Mit-sah](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/white_fang_se/characters/mit_sah.md): Grey Beaver's son who helps train and handle the sled dogs.
- [Judge Scott](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/white_fang_se/characters/judge_scott.md): Weedon Scott's father, a judge who initially distrusts White Fang.
- [One Ear](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/white_fang_se/characters/one_ear.md): A sled dog in the Indian camp who is killed by the lynx.
- [The Love Master](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/white_fang_se/characters/the_love_master.md): Weedon Scott enters White Fang's life as a master unlike any before him: one who neither clubs nor cages, but waits, and whose kindness White Fang slowly learns to trust as the highest law. Around him, White Fang recalib
- [Dick](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/white_fang_se/characters/dick.md): A dog in the Scott household who becomes White Fang's friend.
- [Tim Keenan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/white_fang_se/characters/tim_keenan.md): Cherokee's owner who forces White Fang into a brutal dogfight.
- [Kloo-kooch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/white_fang_se/characters/kloo_kooch.md): An Indian woman who is Grey Beaver's wife.

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