In the beginning of the chapter people at Fort Yukon are impressed by Whitefang's fighting abilities. Beauty Smith is the one most impressed and wants to buy him. Beauty travels to Grey Beavers village where he futilely tries to buy the dog. Beauty realizes how Grey Beaver won't sell the dog, so he decides to use liquor to bring him into debt. After a couple days Grey Beaver sells Whitefang to settle his debts after being made an alcoholic. Whitefang feels a type of loyalty to Grey Beaver and runs away a couple times, only to be beaten and returned to Beauty immediately. By the end of the chapter White Fang has been broken and is under Beauty.

WHITEFANG

• He is a strong and loyal dog to Grey Beaver
• He is unfortunately sold to Beauty when Grey Beaver becomes an alcoholic and sells him off for booze.
• By the end of the chapter he has been broken by Beauty and is in a bleaker future

Grey Beaver: Whitefang's previous owner and a fur trader. He is a Native American who gets ownership over Whitefang and later sells him off for drink. He recognizes that Whitefang is no longer his when he returned multiple times, and always beat him back to Beauty.

Beauty: An ugly, short, craven man who lives in Fort Yukon. He shows an interest in Whitefang and buys him after scamming Grey Beaver. He treats Whitefang badly and that causes Whitefang to run away. He is known to White Fang as the Mad God

SOURDOUGHS

• People who live in Fort Yukon.

CHEEQUANOS

• A disliked term used to describe the newcomers to Fort Yukon

HYPERBOLE AND SIMILE

• Simile: "...His teeth were large and yellow, while two eye-teeth, larger than their fellows showed under his lips like fangs" (London 218).
• "Beauty Smith was a Monstrosity" (London 218).