The Wolf-Dog
Author’s Note: I wrote this piece because the main character in this book dealt with bullying and isolation. Please look at my introduction that I am trying to improve.
White Fang by Jack London with an introduction by K.A. Applegate is a story about a courageous and offbeat wolf-dog named White Fang. Wolf pups die 60% of the time before they reach two months old (Source 1)! In White Fang the wolf-dog endures predators, the cold and finally finding out his personality. White Fang dealt with having to stand up to his bigger opponents and trying NOT to fit in.
I like how White Fang didn’t want to fit in because he didn’t like his acquaintances. He didn’t agree with how they were acting so he didn’t put up with it. That is what more humans need to do, people just go with the flow, but they need to snap out of it and do what they think is right. Staying with the flow is almost like taking away your freedom, freedom is the right to talk or do what you want to.
Isolating yourself doesn’t help you. That is just giving in to what the other person wants you to do. They want you to isolate yourself because it makes you weaker. What you need to do is find people who you will have fun with and support you because that makes you emotionally stronger. You also need to help them if people are trying to bring them down.
One of the problems with isolation is that sometimes the person who is isolating someone doesn’t even realize it. You need to tell them that they are isolating you and sometimes solving this problem can be as easy as that. On the other hand in some cases it can be more difficult and you need to ask yourself if these people are isolating me do I even want to talk to them. Obviously White Fang didn’t have that option because there was no other of his species near him; there are only at the most 17,000 wolves in the U.S.A (source 2). Humans are climbing to record highs with over 310 million people just In America (source3). So there are more people out there that will support you.
Lastly if you are isolating someone, put yourself in their life, pushed away by every attempt to even communicate with someone. It is almost as if that person is in solitary confinement but their out in the world. Victims of isolation have to endure trying to make friends and trying getting away from the people who are doing it to you. Just remember if someone is trying to bring you down it just means you are above them.
Source 1: "Wolf Pups." Windows In To Wonderland. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Apr. 2012. <http://www.windowsintowonderland.org/wolves2/lessons/wolfpups-resouce.pdf>.
Source 2: "Gray Wolf Population in the U.S.." U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Home. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 Apr. 2012. <http://www.fws.gov/midwest/wolf/aboutwolves/WolfPopUS.htm>.
Source 3: "US & World Population Clock." Census Bureau Homepage. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 Apr. 2012. <http://www.census.gov/population/www/popclockus.html>.
