Split (3)

train · 9.6k rows

document_id int64 0 4.73k	id stringlengths 7 214	question stringclasses 1 value	answer stringlengths 10 26.8k	documents listlengths 3 500
4,078	597_chapters_107-123	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	107 - Valgard the Grey comes back from abroad, upset about the establishment of the new court. He tells his son Mord, whose thingmen have left to attend Hoskuld in the Fifth Court instead, that he must take revenge. They agree to spread rumurs about the Njalssons so that they will be killed in revenge down the line. Va...	[ "107. OF MORD AND NJAL'S SONS", "Some while after Mord rode to Bergthorsknoll and saw Skarphedinn\nthere; he fell into very fair words with them, and so he talked\nthe whole day, and said he wished to be good friends with them,\nand to see much of them.", "Skarphedinn took it all well, but said he had never sou...
4,079	597_chapters_124-145	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	124 - Flosi, the Sigfussons, Ingjald, and several other men make a pact to slay every last Njalsson or die trying. Those who drop out of the oath will thereby surrender both their lives and property. Flosi tells the men to meet him two days after the Lord's Day at a faraway ridge, which will require the men to ride thr...	[ "124. OF PORTENTS", "At Reykium on Skeid dwelt one Runolf Thorstein's son. His son's\nname was Hildiglum. He went out on the night of the Lord's day,\nwhen nine weeks were still to winter; he heard a great crash, so\nthat he thought both heaven and earth shook. Then he looked into\nthe west \"airt,\" and he th...
4,080	597_chapters_146-159	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	146 - Kari and his companions run into a group of women on their way east. The women say they have talked to the Sigfussons, who are very afraid of Kari. Thorgeir asks if Kari wants to go after the Sigfussons, but he gives a vague response, saying that he wouldn't be against it. Kari admits that men who are "slain only...	[ "146. THE AWARD OF ATONEMENT WITH THORGEIR CRAGGEIR", "Hall of the Side and his son Kol, seven of them in all, rode west\nover Loomnip's Sand, and so west over Amstacksheath, and did not\ndraw bridle till they came into Myrdale. There they asked\nwhether Thorgeir would be at home at Holt, and they were told\ntha...
4,081	610_dedication	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Now onto the business of summarizing. The author dedicates these idylls to the memory of someone who loved them, speculating that he may find an image of himself in them. This mystery man seems to him just like "my king's ideal knight," especially because he followed his conscience above all else and was completely ded...	[ "Dedication", "These to His Memory--since he held them dear,\n Perchance as finding there unconsciously\n Some image of himself--I dedicate,\n I dedicate, I consecrate with tears--\n These Idylls.", "And indeed He seems to me\n Scarce other than my king's ideal knight,\n 'Who reverenced his conscience as ...
4,082	610_the_coming_of_arthur	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Leodogran, King of Cameliard, has one daughter, Guinevere, and she happens to be the most beautiful woman on earth. Now for a little context. Before Arthur came along, petty kings waged war, laying waste to the land. Heathens from overseas destroyed what was left, until wilderness and beasts reclaimed it. In other word...	[ "The Coming of Arthur", "Leodogran, the King of Cameliard,\n Had one fair daughter, and none other child;\n And she was the fairest of all flesh on earth,\n Guinevere, and in her his one delight.", "For many a petty king ere Arthur came\n Ruled in this isle, and ever waging war\n Each upon other, wasted al...
4,083	610_gareth_and_lynette	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Gareth, the youngest son of Bellicent and Lot of Orkney sees a tree fall. He muses about how the wind managed to bring it down while he--a living, breathing man--is not even able to wield a lance. His mother keeps him at home, despite the fact that he managed to best his older brother Gawain in battle. Gareth tries to ...	[ "Gareth and Lynette", "The last tall son of Lot and Bellicent,\n And tallest, Gareth, in a showerful spring\n Stared at the spate. A slender-shafted Pine\n Lost footing, fell, and so was whirled away. 'How he went down,' said Gareth, 'as a false knight\n Or evil king before my lance if lance\n Were mine to u...
4,084	610_the_marriage_of_geraint	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	A Knight of the Round Table named Geraint has married a woman named Enid. Enid and Guinevere are besties, but when rumors swirl that Guinevere is cheating on Arthur, Geraint begins to fear that his wife's reputation will suffer by association. He doesn't want Enid to become tainted. To protect Enid from "taint," Gerain...	[ "The Marriage of Geraint", "The brave Geraint, a knight of Arthur's court,\n A tributary prince of Devon, one\n Of that great Order of the Table Round,\n Had married Enid, Yniol's only child,\n And loved her, as he loved the light of Heaven. And as the light of Heaven varies, now\n At sunrise, now at sunset,...
4,085	610_geraint_and_enid	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	According to the speaker, it's common for a man to cause trouble for himself by believing what's false to be true, and vice-versa. This folly only ends after death, when we see ourselves truly. And it's this way with Geraint. Angry with Enid because he believes her to be unfaithful, he commands her to ride ahead of him...	[ "Geraint and Enid", "O purblind race of miserable men,\n How many among us at this very hour\n Do forge a life-long trouble for ourselves,\n By taking true for false, or false for true;\n Here, through the feeble twilight of this world\n Groping, how many, until we pass and reach\n That other, where we see ...
4,086	610_balin_and_balan	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	When King Arthur sends his treasurer for a tribute from King Pellam, he tells him there are two strange knights near a fountain in the forest, who are challenging anyone and everyone who shows up. Naturally, Arthur rides in search of the men and defeats them both in a fight. He sends a servant to fetch them. They revea...	[ "Balin and Balan", "Pellam the King, who held and lost with Lot\n In that first war, and had his realm restored\n But rendered tributary, failed of late\n To send his tribute; wherefore Arthur called\n His treasurer, one of many years, and spake,\n 'Go thou with him and him and bring it to us,\n Lest we sho...
4,087	610_merlin_and_vivien	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	As a storm approaches the wild woods of Broceliande, Vivien lays at Merlin's feet before a hollowed-out oak tree. The story behind this unlikely pairing begins at the court of King Mark of Cornwall, where a traveling minstrel whispers a rumor of the love between Lancelot and Guinevere. At the prompting of Mark's lover,...	[ "Merlin and Vivien", "A storm was coming, but the winds were still,\n And in the wild woods of Broceliande,\n Before an oak, so hollow, huge and old\n It looked a tower of ivied masonwork,\n At Merlin's feet the wily Vivien lay.", "For he that always bare in bitter grudge\n The slights of Arthur and his Ta...
4,088	610_lancelot_and_elaine	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	High up in her tower, Elaine of Astolat guards Lancelot's shield, which she keeps in a silken bag she has embroidered for it. She fantasizes about the battles that led to every dint and ding on the shield. Lancelot left his shield with Elaine before he went to compete in the great joust for the grand prize of a diamond...	[ "Lancelot and Elaine", "Elaine the fair, Elaine the loveable,\n Elaine, the lily maid of Astolat,\n High in her chamber up a tower to the east\n Guarded the sacred shield of Lancelot;\n Which first she placed where the morning's earliest ray\n Might strike it, and awake her with the gleam;\n Then fearing ru...
4,089	610_the_holy_grail	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	After a life of noble knighthood, Sir Percivale has retired to an abbey, where he lives a monastic lifestyle. A monk named Ambrosius loves him in a bromantical kind of way. One day, he asks Percivale what made him ditch the Round Table. Percivale says that it was the vision of the Holy Grail. Oh. That. He proceeds to t...	[ "The Holy Grail", "From noiseful arms, and acts of prowess done\n In tournament or tilt, Sir Percivale,\n Whom Arthur and his knighthood called The Pure,\n Had passed into the silent life of prayer,\n Praise, fast, and alms; and leaving for the cowl\n The helmet in an abbey far away\n From Camelot, there, a...
4,090	610_pelleas_and_ettarre	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	King Arthur knights new men to fill the gaps in the Round Table caused by the quest for the Holy Grail. Among the chosen? A youngster named Pelleas... who's not exactly worldly. Pelleas has recently been made lord of his lands. While riding through his countryside, he pauses to rest in a beech grove by a hillside and w...	[ "Pelleas and Ettarre", "King Arthur made new knights to fill the gap\n Left by the Holy Quest; and as he sat\n In hall at old Caerleon, the high doors\n Were softly sundered, and through these a youth,\n Pelleas, and the sweet smell of the fields\n Past, and the sunshine came along with him.", "'Make me th...
4,091	610_the_last_tournament	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Arthur's court jester, Dagonet, dances in the hall. Tristram approaches him, harp in hand, and asks him why he is getting down with his bad self. Flashback: Arthur and Sir Lancelot went riding one day and discovered an abandoned baby in an eagle's nest, with a ruby necklace around its neck. Which is, you know, not exac...	[ "The Last Tournament", "Dagonet, the fool, whom Gawain in his mood\n Had made mock-knight of Arthur's Table Round,\n At Camelot, high above the yellowing woods,\n Danced like a withered leaf before the hall.\n And toward him from the hall, with harp in hand,\n And from the crown thereof a carcanet\n Of ruby...
4,092	610_guinevere	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Guinevere sits in a dim room at the Abbey of Almesbury, alone except for a young novice. A white mist clings to the dead earth. Spooky, no? Guinevere has fled to Almesbury because of Sir Mordred, who has been hovering around Arthur's court for a long time waiting for his chance to stir up all kinds of trouble. Mordred'...	[ "Guinevere", "Queen Guinevere had fled the court, and sat\n There in the holy house at Almesbury\n Weeping, none with her save a little maid,\n A novice: one low light betwixt them burned\n Blurred by the creeping mist, for all abroad,\n Beneath a moon unseen albeit at full,\n The white mist, like a face-c...
4,093	610_the_passing_of_arthur	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Welcome, dear Shmoopers, to the story that Bedivere, first and longest living of Arthur's knights, told to the next generation when he was an old man. On the westward march to Arthur's last battle, Bedivere heard Arthur moaning in his tent: I've seen God in the stars and the flowers, but I don't see him in his ways wit...	[ "The Passing of Arthur", "That story which the bold Sir Bedivere,\n First made and latest left of all the knights,\n Told, when the man was no more than a voice\n In the white winter of his age, to those\n With whom he dwelt, new faces, other minds.", "For on their march to westward, Bedivere,\n Who slowly...
4,094	610_to_the_queen	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	This Idyll addresses the queen herself, and goes a little something like this: O loyal queen to her land, remember the day when you and the prince passed through the joyful London crowd after he recovered from a serious illness. London greeted you then with a great big hullabaloo. And you can't forget the silent cry of...	[ "To the Queen", "O loyal to the royal in thyself,\n And loyal to thy land, as this to thee--\n Bear witness, that rememberable day,\n When, pale as yet, and fever-worn, the Prince\n Who scarce had plucked his flickering life again\n From halfway down the shadow of the grave,\n Past with thee through thy peo...
4,081	610_dedication	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	These Idylls are consecrated in tears and are dedicated to the memory of one who loved them as if he had seen his own image in them. He was a man who seemed in all his virtues and fine qualities to be none other than Arthur's ideal knight. Now he is gone, and England prays that his sons will be as noble as he was and w...	[ "Dedication", "These to His Memory--since he held them dear,\n Perchance as finding there unconsciously\n Some image of himself--I dedicate,\n I dedicate, I consecrate with tears--\n These Idylls.", "And indeed He seems to me\n Scarce other than my king's ideal knight,\n 'Who reverenced his conscience as ...
4,082	610_the_coming_of_arthur	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Leodogran, the king of Cameliard, had only one daughter, Guinevere. She was the most beautiful of all women and he loved her dearly. This was in the time before Arthur came, when many petty kings and feudal lords ruled in England, and the country was torn asunder by their disputes and wars. In addition, England was fre...	[ "The Coming of Arthur", "Leodogran, the King of Cameliard,\n Had one fair daughter, and none other child;\n And she was the fairest of all flesh on earth,\n Guinevere, and in her his one delight.", "For many a petty king ere Arthur came\n Ruled in this isle, and ever waging war\n Each upon other, wasted al...
4,083	610_gareth_and_lynette	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Gareth is the youngest son of Lot and Bellicent. His older brothers, Gawain and Modred, have become knights of King Arthur, but he is forced to remain at home with his mother since he is still considered a mere boy. Because of this overprotectiveness, he is unhappy. He realizes that his mother loves him and that he mus...	[ "Gareth and Lynette", "The last tall son of Lot and Bellicent,\n And tallest, Gareth, in a showerful spring\n Stared at the spate. A slender-shafted Pine\n Lost footing, fell, and so was whirled away. 'How he went down,' said Gareth, 'as a false knight\n Or evil king before my lance if lance\n Were mine to u...
4,084	610_the_marriage_of_geraint	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Geraint, tributary prince of Devon and one of Arthur's bravest knights, is married to Enid, the only daughter of Yniol. He loves his wife deeply and she responds with equal affection; her only wish is to please him. The queen also loves Enid and is always kind and affectionate to her. In turn, Enid regards Guinevere as...	[ "The Marriage of Geraint", "The brave Geraint, a knight of Arthur's court,\n A tributary prince of Devon, one\n Of that great Order of the Table Round,\n Had married Enid, Yniol's only child,\n And loved her, as he loved the light of Heaven. And as the light of Heaven varies, now\n At sunrise, now at sunset,...
4,085	610_geraint_and_enid	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Geraint and Enid set out on their journey that very morning. All their troubles, the poet comments, are due to Geraint's susceptibility to the common, human failing of not being able to discern between truth and falsity. Geraint orders Enid to ride in front of him and not to speak, whatever the provocation. Perhaps, Te...	[ "Geraint and Enid", "O purblind race of miserable men,\n How many among us at this very hour\n Do forge a life-long trouble for ourselves,\n By taking true for false, or false for true;\n Here, through the feeble twilight of this world\n Groping, how many, until we pass and reach\n That other, where we see ...
4,086	610_balin_and_balan	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Pellam, one of the former allies of Lot of Orkney, refuses to pay his tribute, and Arthur orders his treasurer to go and collect it. The old man informs the king that outside Camelot there are two unknown knights who challenge and overthrow all knights who pass by. Arthur orders the treasurer to avoid them since he is ...	[ "Balin and Balan", "Pellam the King, who held and lost with Lot\n In that first war, and had his realm restored\n But rendered tributary, failed of late\n To send his tribute; wherefore Arthur called\n His treasurer, one of many years, and spake,\n 'Go thou with him and him and bring it to us,\n Lest we sho...
4,087	610_merlin_and_vivien	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The air is still, but a storm is brewing. Merlin and Vivien are resting beneath an oak tree in the forest of Broceliande. Much earlier, Arthur's enemy, Mark of Cornwall, had heard the rumor in Camelot that Lancelot and the queen were carrying on an adulterous affair in secret. He was also told that the influence of thi...	[ "Merlin and Vivien", "A storm was coming, but the winds were still,\n And in the wild woods of Broceliande,\n Before an oak, so hollow, huge and old\n It looked a tower of ivied masonwork,\n At Merlin's feet the wily Vivien lay.", "For he that always bare in bitter grudge\n The slights of Arthur and his Ta...
4,088	610_lancelot_and_elaine	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The fair and loveable Elaine, known as the lily maid of Astolat, sits alone in her chamber high in a tower, where she watches over the shield of Sir Lancelot. She devotes all her energies to protecting this shield from rust or other harm, and has made an elaborately embroidered silk cover for it. She is with the shield...	[ "Lancelot and Elaine", "Elaine the fair, Elaine the loveable,\n Elaine, the lily maid of Astolat,\n High in her chamber up a tower to the east\n Guarded the sacred shield of Lancelot;\n Which first she placed where the morning's earliest ray\n Might strike it, and awake her with the gleam;\n Then fearing ru...
4,089	610_the_holy_grail	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	After a full life as a knight, Sir Percivale retires to an abbey near Camelot and becomes a monk. Shortly afterward, he dies. Ambrosius, one of the other monks, had become his friend, and during the last days of his life, Percivale told his companion about the vision of the Holy Grail that had changed his life and fina...	[ "The Holy Grail", "From noiseful arms, and acts of prowess done\n In tournament or tilt, Sir Percivale,\n Whom Arthur and his knighthood called The Pure,\n Had passed into the silent life of prayer,\n Praise, fast, and alms; and leaving for the cowl\n The helmet in an abbey far away\n From Camelot, there, a...
4,090	610_pelleas_and_ettarre	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	In order to fill the gaps left in the ranks of the Round Table after the quest for the Grail, Arthur begins to appoint a number of new knights. While the court is in Caerleon, a handsome and idealistic youth named Pelleas approaches the king and says: "Make me thy knight, because I know, Sir King,All that belongs to kn...	[ "Pelleas and Ettarre", "King Arthur made new knights to fill the gap\n Left by the Holy Quest; and as he sat\n In hall at old Caerleon, the high doors\n Were softly sundered, and through these a youth,\n Pelleas, and the sweet smell of the fields\n Past, and the sunshine came along with him.", "'Make me th...
4,091	610_the_last_tournament	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Little Dagonet, King Arthur's fool, dances gaily about the hall. Towards him, carrying a harp and a jeweled trophy won in yesterday's tournament, walks Sir Tristram, saying: "Why skip ye so, Sir Fool?" Some while before, Arthur and Lancelot had found an abandoned child wearing a jeweled crown in a desolate wilderness. ...	[ "The Last Tournament", "Dagonet, the fool, whom Gawain in his mood\n Had made mock-knight of Arthur's Table Round,\n At Camelot, high above the yellowing woods,\n Danced like a withered leaf before the hall.\n And toward him from the hall, with harp in hand,\n And from the crown thereof a carcanet\n Of ruby...
4,092	610_guinevere	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Arthur's nephew, the villainous Modred, has been planning for a long time to usurp the throne. He is assisted in his evil designs by Vivien. Together, they take advantage of every opportunity to arouse discord and treason at the court. One night, while the king is away, Modred is able to trap Lancelot and the queen in ...	[ "Guinevere", "Queen Guinevere had fled the court, and sat\n There in the holy house at Almesbury\n Weeping, none with her save a little maid,\n A novice: one low light betwixt them burned\n Blurred by the creeping mist, for all abroad,\n Beneath a moon unseen albeit at full,\n The white mist, like a face-c...
4,095	910_part_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Part I opens as London vividly describes the "wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild." Two men, Henry and Bill, struggle to pull the long, narrow coffin of Lord Alfred on a dog sled through the cold, desolate terrain. Dressed in fur and leather, their faces are completely covered in frozen crystals. Making the...	[ "Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. The trees\nhad been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and\nthey seemed to lean towards each other, black and ominous, in the fading\nlight. A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a\ndesolation, lifeless, ...
4,096	910_part_2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Part II begins as the wolves catch the sound of men's voices rescuing Henry. Here London makes a complete shift in the tone of the book as the narrative point of view is now that of the she-wolf. The wolves begin running over the "surface of a world frozen and dead," with a large gray wolf in the lead. The she-wolf sta...	[ "It was the she-wolf who had first caught the sound of men's voices and\nthe whining of the sled-dogs; and it was the she-wolf who was first to\nspring away from the cornered man in his circle of dying flame. The pack\nhad been loath to forego the kill it had hunted down, and it lingered for\nseveral minutes, maki...
4,097	910_part_3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	As with Parts I and II, Part III breaks with previous sections and introduces completely new elements into the novel, showing how the gray cub learns to live in civilization. On his way to the stream for a drink the cub encounters man for the first time and is surprised by his own passive response. More surprising was ...	[ "The cub came upon it suddenly. It was his own fault. He had been\ncareless. He had left the cave and run down to the stream to drink. It\nmight have been that he took no notice because he was heavy with sleep.\n(He had been out all night on the meat-trail, and had but just then\nawakened.) And his carelessnes...
4,098	910_part_4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	With the death of Lip-Lip, Mit-sah makes White Fang the lead sled dog and the other dogs' hatred of him is intensified. The extra favors bestowed on him along with the extra rations of meat given to him make the pack of dogs attack him more viciously than ever. White Fang can hardly endure it, but endure it he must or ...	[ "Had there been in White Fang's nature any possibility, no matter how\nremote, of his ever coming to fraternise with his kind, such possibility\nwas irretrievably destroyed when he was made leader of the sled-team. For\nnow the dogs hated him--hated him for the extra meat bestowed upon him by\nMit-sah; hated him f...
4,099	910_part_5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The last of the many changes that will take place in White Fang take place in Part V and the title, The Tame, suggests what those changes will be. As the chapter unfolds, White Fangs becomes very agitated, sensing some calamity in the air. What Weedon Scott and Matt can't figure out is how the dog knows that Scott is l...	[ "It was in the air. White Fang sensed the coming calamity, even before\nthere was tangible evidence of it. In vague ways it was borne in upon\nhim that a change was impending. He knew not how nor why, yet he got his\nfeel of the oncoming event from the gods themselves. In ways subtler\nthan they knew, they betr...
4,095	910_part_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Two men, Bill and Henry, apparently drew the short straw, and have to haul a dead body to Fort McGurry. Along the way, they are chased by a pack of hungry wolves . One clever wolf, a female with a red sheen to her coat, is sneaking into the camp and stealing fish. She cunningly makes the two men lose count of how many ...	[ "Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. The trees\nhad been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and\nthey seemed to lean towards each other, black and ominous, in the fading\nlight. A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a\ndesolation, lifeless, ...
4,096	910_part_2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	New section, new perspective. From the guy who was almost food, we shift to the pack that almost ate him. The pack has three leaders--a big grey wolf, a three-year-old wolf, and an old, skunky one-eyed wolf. They all compete for the affections of the she-wolf. Times are bad, but the pack runs on until they find a bull ...	[ "It was the she-wolf who had first caught the sound of men's voices and\nthe whining of the sled-dogs; and it was the she-wolf who was first to\nspring away from the cornered man in his circle of dying flame. The pack\nhad been loath to forego the kill it had hunted down, and it lingered for\nseveral minutes, maki...
4,097	910_part_3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	One day, the cub runs into the scariest animal of all: man. Specifically, a quintet of Native Americans. He finds himself both scared and hypnotized by them. One of the men leans down to pet him and he bites the hand. He gets a whack with a club for his troubles. Mom shows up to save him, but one of the Native American...	[ "The cub came upon it suddenly. It was his own fault. He had been\ncareless. He had left the cave and run down to the stream to drink. It\nmight have been that he took no notice because he was heavy with sleep.\n(He had been out all night on the meat-trail, and had but just then\nawakened.) And his carelessnes...
4,098	910_part_4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	White Fang becomes the leader of Mit-sah's sled team and the other dogs now hate him even more for it. He learns to run, run, run and only stop when Mit-sah tells him. Otherwise, the rest of the pack would destroy him. The Dark Side is strong in him: he hates other dogs. At age five, Grey Beaver takes him on another lo...	[ "Had there been in White Fang's nature any possibility, no matter how\nremote, of his ever coming to fraternise with his kind, such possibility\nwas irretrievably destroyed when he was made leader of the sled-team. For\nnow the dogs hated him--hated him for the extra meat bestowed upon him by\nMit-sah; hated him f...
4,099	910_part_5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Something's coming, something bad. White Fang senses it and it gives him the willies. Scott has to go back to California and doesn't know if he can take White Fang with him. Scott starts packing and White Fang becomes even more consternated. When Scott leaves, he tells White Fang to give him a good-bye growl. White Fan...	[ "It was in the air. White Fang sensed the coming calamity, even before\nthere was tangible evidence of it. In vague ways it was borne in upon\nhim that a change was impending. He knew not how nor why, yet he got his\nfeel of the oncoming event from the gods themselves. In ways subtler\nthan they knew, they betr...
4,100	910_part_1,_chapters_1-2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Out in the Wild, in the bone-numbing North, two men are mushing to McGurry. Their dogs are running along forward and they have a box lashed to the sled. In the box is the body of Lord Alfred, a man from the outside who froze to death. Such is the way of the North. The chill threatens to stop movement, to pull all life ...	[ "Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. The trees\nhad been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and\nthey seemed to lean towards each other, black and ominous, in the fading\nlight. A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a\ndesolation, lifeless, ...
4,101	910_part_1,_chapter_3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	All of the dogs are there when they wake, and they set off into the snow. The sled overturns and One Ear breaks loose and starts to run toward the wolves. Henry calls him, but he sees the she-wolf up ahead and is lured toward the pack. Too late, he realizes that they are not friendly, but he is cut off by the wolves. B...	[ "The day began auspiciously. They had lost no dogs during the night, and\nthey swung out upon the trail and into the silence, the darkness, and the\ncold with spirits that were fairly light. Bill seemed to have forgotten\nhis forebodings of the previous night, and even waxed facetious with the\ndogs when, at midd...
4,102	910_part_2,_chapters_1-2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The she-wolf was the first to hear the other men coming and the first to make a retreat. She runs out over the snow, flanked on either side by two wolves. On her right side there is a gaunt, older wolf, with only one eye. On the left is one of the leaders of the pack. Both of them crowd her, and she fights them off wit...	[ "It was the she-wolf who had first caught the sound of men's voices and\nthe whining of the sled-dogs; and it was the she-wolf who was first to\nspring away from the cornered man in his circle of dying flame. The pack\nhad been loath to forego the kill it had hunted down, and it lingered for\nseveral minutes, maki...
4,103	910_part_2,_chapters_3-5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	One of the pups is stronger than the others, a little gray cub. He yearns for the light, and learns to find his mother's nose and paw and tongue. He drinks lots of milk and bits of half-digested food that his mother regurgitates for him. He is the fiercest of the litter, with a little rasping growl. The pup looks throu...	[ "He was different from his brothers and sisters. Their hair already\nbetrayed the reddish hue inherited from their mother, the she-wolf; while\nhe alone, in this particular, took after his father. He was the one\nlittle grey cub of the litter. He had bred true to the straight wolf-\nstock--in fact, he had bred t...
4,104	910_part_3,_chapters_1-3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	In his wanderings, the cub carelessly comes upon the Indian village, and sees men before him. His heart swells as he realizes the power that these men hold, and he stands before them in respect, even while he is afraid. When one of the Indians reaches down for him, he bares his teeth and they laugh at his white fangs, ...	[ "The cub came upon it suddenly. It was his own fault. He had been\ncareless. He had left the cave and run down to the stream to drink. It\nmight have been that he took no notice because he was heavy with sleep.\n(He had been out all night on the meat-trail, and had but just then\nawakened.) And his carelessnes...
4,105	910_part_3,_chapters_4-6	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	In the fall, the village packs up to go off for fall hunting. White Fang decides to stay behind and, quite deliberately, hides in the forest. That night he is cold, lonely, and afraid. In the morning, he goes and looks at the abandoned village and howls mournfully. He runs alongside the river, looking for his people. T...	[ "In the fall of the year, when the days were shortening and the bite of\nthe frost was coming into the air, White Fang got his chance for liberty.\nFor several days there had been a great hubbub in the village. The\nsummer camp was being dismantled, and the tribe, bag and baggage, was\npreparing to go off to the f...
4,106	910_part_4,_chapters_1-3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	White Fang is a bitter, vicious dog and is made worse when Mit-sah puts him at the front of the pack. But White Fang does not stay close to Mit-sah when they camp, so all the dogs attack him, and he returns their attacks. He becomes so vicious that Gray Beaver swears that there has never been a dog so vicious as White ...	[ "Had there been in White Fang's nature any possibility, no matter how\nremote, of his ever coming to fraternise with his kind, such possibility\nwas irretrievably destroyed when he was made leader of the sled-team. For\nnow the dogs hated him--hated him for the extra meat bestowed upon him by\nMit-sah; hated him f...
4,107	910_part_4,_chapters_4-6	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Cherokee, the bulldog, and White Fang eye each other nervously in the circle. Neither is used to fighting this other type of dog and look at each other with confusion. Egged on by its owner, the bulldog makes a run for White Fang; he responds fiercely, yet is puzzled by the dog. The bulldog has a lot of thick flesh, an...	[ "Beauty Smith slipped the chain from his neck and stepped back.", "For once White Fang did not make an immediate attack. He stood still,\nears pricked forward, alert and curious, surveying the strange animal\nthat faced him. He had never seen such a dog before. Tim Keenan shoved\nthe bull-dog forward with a mu...
4,108	910_part_5,_chapters_1-2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Scott is preparing to go back to his home in California, and White Fang senses that something is wrong. He cries and cries. Scott is torn, knowing that White Fang cannot go to California with him, but feeling that he cannot leave him either. White Fang howls and howls, and they lock him up in the house the day that Sco...	[ "It was in the air. White Fang sensed the coming calamity, even before\nthere was tangible evidence of it. In vague ways it was borne in upon\nhim that a change was impending. He knew not how nor why, yet he got his\nfeel of the oncoming event from the gods themselves. In ways subtler\nthan they knew, they betr...
4,109	910_part_5,_chapters_3-5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	White Fang slowly becomes accustomed to life in his master's house. Dick, the deer-hound, learns not to attack him, but Collie still continues with her snarls. White Fang starts to learn about his master's house--he must be kind to the children, he must respect the other members of the house. Outside, White Fang at fir...	[ "Not only was White Fang adaptable by nature, but he had travelled much,\nand knew the meaning and necessity of adjustment. Here, in Sierra Vista,\nwhich was the name of Judge Scott's place, White Fang quickly began to\nmake himself at home. He had no further serious trouble with the dogs.\nThey knew more about t...
4,110	910_part_1,_chapter_1_the_trail_of_the_meat	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	NOTE White Fang is divided into five parts of two to six chapters each. For quick reference, this commentary will refer to chapters with a Roman part numeral followed by an Arabic chapter numeral . Bill and Henry are sled-drivers in the Yukon who are conveying a dead body-the corpse of a man who was "a lord or somethin...	[ "Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. The trees\nhad been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and\nthey seemed to lean towards each other, black and ominous, in the fading\nlight. A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a\ndesolation, lifeless, ...
4,111	910_part_1,_chapter_2_the_she_wolf	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Henry and Bill continue their journey across the Wild, the howling of wolves always pursuing them. In camp at night, Bill manages to attack the wolf that is approaching their dogs; however, Bill says the wolf looks like a dog. Despite his "whack" at the interloper, another dog is gone when morning breaks. When the team...	[ "Breakfast eaten and the slim camp-outfit lashed to the sled, the men\nturned their backs on the cheery fire and launched out into the darkness.\nAt once began to rise the cries that were fiercely sad--cries that called\nthrough the darkness and cold to one another and answered back.\nConversation ceased. Daylight...
4,101	910_part_1,_chapter_3_the_hunger_cry	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	When the sled overturns, One Ear breaks away, lured by the she-wolf by playfully "flirting" with him and leading him into an ambush by the wolf pack. Bill pursues with his rifle. Henry listens, helpless, as Bill uses up his ammunition; he also hears One Ear's death cry. He knows that he has lost both the dog and Bill. ...	[ "The day began auspiciously. They had lost no dogs during the night, and\nthey swung out upon the trail and into the silence, the darkness, and the\ncold with spirits that were fairly light. Bill seemed to have forgotten\nhis forebodings of the previous night, and even waxed facetious with the\ndogs when, at midd...
4,112	910_part_2,_chapter_1_the_battle_of_the_fangs	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The chapter's title refers to the conflict among three male wolves in the pack-a gaunt old leader wolf ; a younger, large gray wolf, also a leader; and a three-year-old-who "court" the she-wolf, competing for her as a mate. Procreation is, of course, survival of the species, and so the interplay among these four wolves...	[ "It was the she-wolf who had first caught the sound of men's voices and\nthe whining of the sled-dogs; and it was the she-wolf who was first to\nspring away from the cornered man in his circle of dying flame. The pack\nhad been loath to forego the kill it had hunted down, and it lingered for\nseveral minutes, maki...
4,113	910_part_2,_chapter_2_the_lair	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The she-wolf eventually shakes the lure of the Indian camp and moves on with One Eye. She is very close to giving birth to her litter when the pair finds a suitable cave. The she-wolf settles into the lair while One Eye instinctively goes in search of food for the soon-to-arrive pups. After his first foray, he returns ...	[ "For two days the she-wolf and One Eye hung about the Indian camp. He was\nworried and apprehensive, yet the camp lured his mate and she was loath\nto depart. But when, one morning, the air was rent with the report of a\nrifle close at hand, and a bullet smashed against a tree trunk several\ninches from One Eye's...
4,114	910_part_2,_chapter_3_the_gray_cub	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The only gray cub, and the fiercest member of the she-wolf's litter, demonstrates a special awareness and aptitude for survival early on. He discovers that one wall of the cave opens to the outside world. All the cubs are drawn toward the light, but the she-wolf keeps them away from the "wall of light" first with her n...	[ "He was different from his brothers and sisters. Their hair already\nbetrayed the reddish hue inherited from their mother, the she-wolf; while\nhe alone, in this particular, took after his father. He was the one\nlittle grey cub of the litter. He had bred true to the straight wolf-\nstock--in fact, he had bred t...
4,115	910_part_2,_chapter_4_the_wall_of_the_world	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The gray cub , makes his initial, confusing yet invigorating foray beyond the "wall of light" into the world outside the lair. He adjusts, falteringly, to new terrain and to new animals, and comes to make a basic division of all things in the world between living and non-living. He even stumbles across a poorly hidden ...	[ "By the time his mother began leaving the cave on hunting expeditions, the\ncub had learned well the law that forbade his approaching the entrance.\nNot only had this law been forcibly and many times impressed on him by\nhis mother's nose and paw, but in him the instinct of fear was\ndeveloping. Never, in his brie...
4,116	910_part_2,_chapter_5_the_law_of_meat	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	White Fang makes more forays out of the lair, growing stronger and more confident of himself, and making more kills. When a particularly desperate famine strikes, the she-wolf, unbeknownst to White Fang, goes to the lair of the lynx and kills one of the lynx's kittens. The mother lynx arrives at the wolves' lair, and a...	[ "The cub's development was rapid. He rested for two days, and then\nventured forth from the cave again. It was on this adventure that he\nfound the young weasel whose mother he had helped eat, and he saw to it\nthat the young weasel went the way of its mother. But on this trip he\ndid not get lost. When he grew...
4,117	910_part_3,_chapter_2_the_bondage	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	White Fang begins to "render his allegiance" to the man-gods, as has Kiche his mother. He realizes that men have power to enforce their wishes and so, gradually, he submits to them-even though he still hears the Wild calling. Kiche, whom Gray Beaver frees when he decides she is no longer likely to run away, hears the c...	[ "The days were thronged with experience for White Fang. During the time\nthat Kiche was tied by the stick, he ran about over all the camp,\ninquiring, investigating, learning. He quickly came to know much of the\nways of the man-animals, but familiarity did not breed contempt. The\nmore he came to know them, the...
4,118	910_part_3,_chapter_3_the_outcast	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The other dogs gradually join Lip-lip in persecuting White Fang; the pup becomes increasingly hostile to the point that not only the other animals but also the humans in the camp shun and hate him. In order to survive, White Fang becomes "more cruel, more ferocious, and more intelligent." .	[ "Lip-lip continued so to darken his days that White Fang became wickeder\nand more ferocious than it was his natural right to be. Savageness was a\npart of his make-up, but the savageness thus developed exceeded his make-\nup. He acquired a reputation for wickedness amongst the man-animals\nthemselves. Wherever ...
4,119	910_part_3,_chapter_4_the_trail_of_the_gods	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	As autumn arrives, White Fang takes advantage of the tribe's movement to a new camp to escape. He soon finds, however, that "bondage had softened him." He shivers from the cold; he suffers from hunger; he experiences fear and loneliness. Wounded and nearing exhaustion, White Fang tracks down the natives. When he finds ...	[ "In the fall of the year, when the days were shortening and the bite of\nthe frost was coming into the air, White Fang got his chance for liberty.\nFor several days there had been a great hubbub in the village. The\nsummer camp was being dismantled, and the tribe, bag and baggage, was\npreparing to go off to the f...
4,120	910_part_3,_chapter_5_the_covenant	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	White Fang is one of seven dogs in the sled team of Mit-sah, Gray Beaver's son. Lip-lip is another. Mit-sah makes Lip-lip the lead dog of the team. The other dogs in the team so hate Lip-lip that they strive to attack him as they run, with the result that the sled goes faster. To further increase the other dogs' animos...	[ "When December was well along, Grey Beaver went on a journey up the\nMackenzie. Mit-sah and Kloo-kooch went with him. One sled he drove\nhimself, drawn by dogs he had traded for or borrowed. A second and\nsmaller sled was driven by Mit-sah, and to this was harnessed a team of\npuppies. It was more of a toy affa...
4,121	910_part_3,_chapter_6_the_famine	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Gray Beaver, Mit-sah, and the dogs return to their own village. White Fang has grown much-so much, in fact, that another dog, Baseek, wrongly assumes that he has intimidated White Fang into relinquishing claim to some meat. White Fang attacks him, and Baseek retreats. In midsummer, White Fang has a reunion with Kiche-a...	[ "The spring of the year was at hand when Grey Beaver finished his long\njourney. It was April, and White Fang was a year old when he pulled into\nthe home villages and was loosed from the harness by Mit-sah. Though a\nlong way from his full growth, White Fang, next to Lip-lip, was the\nlargest yearling in the vil...
4,122	910_part_4,_chapter_1_the_enemy_of_his_kind	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Mit-sah makes White Fang the leader of the sled team, effectively ending any chance, however remote, White Fang may have had of being a friend to the rest of the dogs. He is now their enemy, as Lip-lip was before him. White Fang takes his vengeance on his fellow pack dogs by night. They try to kill him, but they cannot...	[ "Had there been in White Fang's nature any possibility, no matter how\nremote, of his ever coming to fraternise with his kind, such possibility\nwas irretrievably destroyed when he was made leader of the sled-team. For\nnow the dogs hated him--hated him for the extra meat bestowed upon him by\nMit-sah; hated him f...
4,123	910_part_4,_chapter_2_the_mad_god	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Although he is alone, it is not White Fang's fate to remain so, for he is noticed by a white trader, Beauty Smith. Smith especially enjoys watching the spectacle of White Fang fight new arrivals' dogs, and he sets out to buy White Fang from Gray Beaver. Initially, Gray Beaver is not interested. Smith, however, introduc...	[ "A small number of white men lived in Fort Yukon. These men had been long\nin the country. They called themselves Sour-doughs, and took great pride\nin so classifying themselves. For other men, new in the land, they felt\nnothing but disdain. The men who came ashore from the steamers were\nnewcomers. They were...
4,124	910_part_4,_chapter_3_the_reign_of_hate	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Beauty Smith treats White Fang with such cruelty that the dog becomes the enemy not only of his own kind but also "of all things." Smith treats White Fang so cruelly in order that he can win money by pitting White Fang against other dogs in fights. White Fang becomes known as "The Fighting Wolf." He defeats all other d...	[ "Under the tutelage of the mad god, White Fang became a fiend. He was\nkept chained in a pen at the rear of the fort, and here Beauty Smith\nteased and irritated and drove him wild with petty torments. The man\nearly discovered White Fang's susceptibility to laughter, and made it a\npoint after painfully tricking...
4,125	910_part_4,_chapter_4_the_clinging_death	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	White Fang is pitted against Cherokee the bulldog, with surprising results. Having never faced a bulldog before, White Fang is unsure how to defeat him; and, very quickly, the fight degenerates, to White Fang's harm. Cherokee eventually takes White Fang by the neck and slowly begins choking the life out of him. White F...	[ "Beauty Smith slipped the chain from his neck and stepped back.", "For once White Fang did not make an immediate attack. He stood still,\nears pricked forward, alert and curious, surveying the strange animal\nthat faced him. He had never seen such a dog before. Tim Keenan shoved\nthe bull-dog forward with a mu...
4,126	910_part_4,_chapter_5_the_indomitable	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Although Matt is able to recognize that White Fang has been domesticated previously, Weedon Scott is dubious that he will be able to tame the dog. When Scott attempts to throw a piece of meat to White Fang, the meat is intercepted by another of Scott's sled-dogs. That dog pays for it with his life as White Fang swiftly...	[ "\"It's hopeless,\" Weedon Scott confessed.", "He sat on the step of his cabin and stared at the dog-musher, who\nresponded with a shrug that was equally hopeless.", "Together they looked at White Fang at the end of his stretched chain,\nbristling, snarling, ferocious, straining to get at the sled-dogs. Having...
4,127	910_part_4,_chapter_6_the_love_master	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Weedon Scott begins the long process of bonding with White Fang and winning his trust. Indeed, White Fang gradually grows to love Scott. He never, however, outgrows his growl, even though a note of affection and contentment is now in it that was not present before. He grows to love Scott so much, in fact, that when Sco...	[ "As White Fang watched Weedon Scott approach, he bristled and snarled to\nadvertise that he would not submit to punishment. Twenty-four hours had\npassed since he had slashed open the hand that was now bandaged and held\nup by a sling to keep the blood out of it. In the past White Fang had\nexperienced delayed pu...
4,128	910_part_5,_chapter_1_the_long_trail	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	With the turn of the year, the gold-rushers are "as mad to get to the Outside as they had been originally to get to the Inside," and Weedon Scott is among those planning to leave. He intends, reluctantly, to leave White Fang behind, believing that the wolf-dog will never be able to adapt to life in civilized California...	[ "It was in the air. White Fang sensed the coming calamity, even before\nthere was tangible evidence of it. In vague ways it was borne in upon\nhim that a change was impending. He knew not how nor why, yet he got his\nfeel of the oncoming event from the gods themselves. In ways subtler\nthan they knew, they betr...
4,129	910_part_5,_chapter_2_the_southland	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	San Francisco impresses itself upon White Fang as the ultimate expression of man's power that he has yet experienced. Scott disembarks with White Fang and takes the wolf-dog home to the house of Scott's father, a distinguished judge. There, White Fang must learn to distinguish Scott's family's loving embraces from hos...	[ "White Fang landed from the steamer in San Francisco. He was appalled.\nDeep in him, below any reasoning process or act of consciousness, he had\nassociated power with godhead. And never had the white men seemed such\nmarvellous gods as now, when he trod the slimy pavement of San Francisco.\nThe log cabins he had...
4,130	910_part_5,_chapter_3_the_god's_domain	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	As White Fang must adapt to life at Sierra Vista, so must the Scotts' other dogs adapt to him. Collie especially is in no hurry to accept him, for she is fighting against her sheepdog instincts: "Woven into her being was the memory of countless crimes he and his had perpetrated against her ancestry. Not in a day nor a ...	[ "Not only was White Fang adaptable by nature, but he had travelled much,\nand knew the meaning and necessity of adjustment. Here, in Sierra Vista,\nwhich was the name of Judge Scott's place, White Fang quickly began to\nmake himself at home. He had no further serious trouble with the dogs.\nThey knew more about t...
4,131	910_part_5,_chapter_4_the_call_of_kind	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	As much as White Fang continues to adapt to life at Sierra Vista, he never completely loses his quality as an outsider. He does not associate with the dogs, who still regard him warily and with fear. All except Collie, that is, who continues to hound him. White Fang accompanies Weedon Scott when Scott goes horseback ri...	[ "The months came and went. There was plenty of food and no work in the\nSouthland, and White Fang lived fat and prosperous and happy. Not alone\nwas he in the geographical Southland, for he was in the Southland of\nlife. Human kindness was like a sun shining upon him, and he flourished\nlike a flower planted in ...
4,132	910_part_5,_chapter_5_the_sleeping_wolf	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The chapter begins with a flashback: we learn about Jim Hall, a vicious prisoner who years before had been sentenced to serve five decades' jail time by Judge Scott . In so doing, Judge Scott had unwittingly played a part in a police conspiracy against Hall. Now, Hall has escaped. He makes his way to Sierra Vista to ta...	[ "It was about this time that the newspapers were full of the daring escape\nof a convict from San Quentin prison. He was a ferocious man. He had\nbeen ill-made in the making. He had not been born right, and he had not\nbeen helped any by the moulding he had received at the hands of society.\nThe hands of society...
4,110	910_chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The novel starts with a description of the landscape in the Northland Wild, which is a cold and desolate place. Some wolfish dogs are harnessed to a sled without runners. The sled is made of birch bark and rests on the snow. On the sled lies a narrow, oblong box, along with other essential items, including blankets, an...	[ "Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. The trees\nhad been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and\nthey seemed to lean towards each other, black and ominous, in the fading\nlight. A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a\ndesolation, lifeless, ...
4,111	910_chapter_2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	After the men finish their breakfast and load their gear onto the sled, they set out in the darkness, as the wolves continue to howl. Daybreak comes at nine in the morning, and the sky warms to a rose color at mid day. The light, however, quickly fades in the afternoon, and it grows dark again, forcing the men to stop....	[ "Breakfast eaten and the slim camp-outfit lashed to the sled, the men\nturned their backs on the cheery fire and launched out into the darkness.\nAt once began to rise the cries that were fiercely sad--cries that called\nthrough the darkness and cold to one another and answered back.\nConversation ceased. Daylight...
4,101	910_chapter_3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The next day none of the dogs has disappeared, which puts Bill in a better mood. They again set out on their journey, but the sled turns over and is jammed between a tree trunk and a huge rock. When they unharness the dogs to straighten out the tangle, they see One Ear sneaking past them towards the she-wolf, who is pl...	[ "The day began auspiciously. They had lost no dogs during the night, and\nthey swung out upon the trail and into the silence, the darkness, and the\ncold with spirits that were fairly light. Bill seemed to have forgotten\nhis forebodings of the previous night, and even waxed facetious with the\ndogs when, at midd...
4,112	910_chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	This chapter concentrates on the activities of the wolf pack, and the story is told from the perspective of the she-wolf. She is the leader of the pack along with a large gray wolf, a three year-old, and an old, one-eyed wolf seeking to assist her. Her three companions are her suitors, each trying his best to gain her ...	[ "It was the she-wolf who had first caught the sound of men's voices and\nthe whining of the sled-dogs; and it was the she-wolf who was first to\nspring away from the cornered man in his circle of dying flame. The pack\nhad been loath to forego the kill it had hunted down, and it lingered for\nseveral minutes, maki...
4,113	910_chapter_2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The she-wolf and One Eye hang about the Indian camp for two days until a bullet is fired into the forest and they are forced to leave. She finally finds a good place to have her cubs. It is a small cave above a stream that flows into the Mackenzie in the summer; the stream is now frozen. The she-wolf settles into the c...	[ "For two days the she-wolf and One Eye hung about the Indian camp. He was\nworried and apprehensive, yet the camp lured his mate and she was loath\nto depart. But when, one morning, the air was rent with the report of a\nrifle close at hand, and a bullet smashed against a tree trunk several\ninches from One Eye's...
4,114	910_chapter_3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Aptly titled The Gray Cub, the chapter is devoted to describing one of the litter of five, comprised of two females and three males. The gray, male cub is the most striking of the new wolves. His coat is gray, like that of a true wolf, whereas his siblings have inherited their mothers red hue. This cub is also a smart ...	[ "He was different from his brothers and sisters. Their hair already\nbetrayed the reddish hue inherited from their mother, the she-wolf; while\nhe alone, in this particular, took after his father. He was the one\nlittle grey cub of the litter. He had bred true to the straight wolf-\nstock--in fact, he had bred t...
4,115	910_chapter_4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The She-wolf now leaves her cub alone more often to go on her hunting expeditions. It has been impressed upon him that he should not set foot outside the cave. Since instinct is developing in him, he accepts fear as one of the restrictions of life, and he does not go near the mouth of the cave. Once he hears a strange ...	[ "By the time his mother began leaving the cave on hunting expeditions, the\ncub had learned well the law that forbade his approaching the entrance.\nNot only had this law been forcibly and many times impressed on him by\nhis mother's nose and paw, but in him the instinct of fear was\ndeveloping. Never, in his brie...
4,116	910_chapter_5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	After his adventure, the cub rests for two days before setting out again. This time he encounters the baby weasel and devours it with relish. He also finds his way back to the cave easily when he is tired. In sharpening his own skills, he tries to follow the example of his mother. However, as he grows older, the she-wo...	[ "The cub's development was rapid. He rested for two days, and then\nventured forth from the cave again. It was on this adventure that he\nfound the young weasel whose mother he had helped eat, and he saw to it\nthat the young weasel went the way of its mother. But on this trip he\ndid not get lost. When he grew...
4,133	910_chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	This chapter deals with the cubs first encounter with humans. The cub runs down to the stream to drink, and there he notices five creatures he has never seen before. His first instinct is that of fear, yet he does not run away. One of the men approaches the cub and reaches down to seize him, but the cub bites him, for ...	[ "The cub came upon it suddenly. It was his own fault. He had been\ncareless. He had left the cave and run down to the stream to drink. It\nmight have been that he took no notice because he was heavy with sleep.\n(He had been out all night on the meat-trail, and had but just then\nawakened.) And his carelessnes...
4,117	910_chapter_2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	White Fang has completely given himself up to the mercy of the man-animals, his gods. He learns the nature of the Indians and their sense of justice and power. He learns to avoid the mothers of half-grown puppies, due to a few bad experiences with them. He still fights with Lip-lip and is defeated every time. Once, he ...	[ "The days were thronged with experience for White Fang. During the time\nthat Kiche was tied by the stick, he ran about over all the camp,\ninquiring, investigating, learning. He quickly came to know much of the\nways of the man-animals, but familiarity did not breed contempt. The\nmore he came to know them, the...
4,118	910_chapter_3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	White Fangs fights with Lip-lip continue to rage as furiously as ever. He makes a reputation for himself as being the most wicked dog in camp. He can also snarl more terribly than any other dog, a skill he uses to his advantage. Both humans and animals hate him. He is always mixed up in squabbles over stolen meat. He i...	[ "Lip-lip continued so to darken his days that White Fang became wickeder\nand more ferocious than it was his natural right to be. Savageness was a\npart of his make-up, but the savageness thus developed exceeded his make-\nup. He acquired a reputation for wickedness amongst the man-animals\nthemselves. Wherever ...
4,119	910_chapter_4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	With the arrival of autumn, the days grow shorter, and it is getting colder. When the camp members prepare to leave for another place, White Fang escapes into the forest. He enjoys the freedom of the wild for a while, but soon finds himself lonely and scared and longing for the comfort of the camp. In truth, he has los...	[ "In the fall of the year, when the days were shortening and the bite of\nthe frost was coming into the air, White Fang got his chance for liberty.\nFor several days there had been a great hubbub in the village. The\nsummer camp was being dismantled, and the tribe, bag and baggage, was\npreparing to go off to the f...
4,120	910_chapter_5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	In this chapter, White Fang is being trained as a sled-dog. Gray Beaver, Kloo-kooch, and Mit-sah go on a journey up the Mackenzie River. Gray Beaver drives a sled drawn by dogs that he has traded or borrowed. Mit-sah, who is learning to drive and train the dogs, drives a smaller sled drawn by puppies. The sled carries ...	[ "When December was well along, Grey Beaver went on a journey up the\nMackenzie. Mit-sah and Kloo-kooch went with him. One sled he drove\nhimself, drawn by dogs he had traded for or borrowed. A second and\nsmaller sled was driven by Mit-sah, and to this was harnessed a team of\npuppies. It was more of a toy affa...
4,121	910_chapter_6	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Spring arrives, and Gray Beaver finishes the journey. White Fang is one year old, and next to Lip-lip, he is the largest yearling. He continues to have his battles with other dogs. When he fights with Baseek over a piece of shinbone, White Fang rips Baseeks right ear and wounds him on the shoulder. Baseek, old and weak...	[ "The spring of the year was at hand when Grey Beaver finished his long\njourney. It was April, and White Fang was a year old when he pulled into\nthe home villages and was loosed from the harness by Mit-sah. Though a\nlong way from his full growth, White Fang, next to Lip-lip, was the\nlargest yearling in the vil...
4,122	910_chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	White Fang is now the leader of the team, positioned at the longest end of the rope. He is not allowed to stop without orders. If he does so, the other dogs are permitted to attack him. The other dogs are jealous of his position and rage against White Fang, even when they are free; as expected, Mit-sah predictably best...	[ "Had there been in White Fang's nature any possibility, no matter how\nremote, of his ever coming to fraternise with his kind, such possibility\nwas irretrievably destroyed when he was made leader of the sled-team. For\nnow the dogs hated him--hated him for the extra meat bestowed upon him by\nMit-sah; hated him f...
4,123	910_chapter_2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	A small number of white men, who call themselves Sour-doughs, live in Fort Yukon. They make their bread with sourdough starter, instead of baking powder or yeast. These men enjoy the sight of the newcomers dogs being mangled to death by White Fang and the other dogs. One man in particular, Beauty Smith, enjoys the figh...	[ "A small number of white men lived in Fort Yukon. These men had been long\nin the country. They called themselves Sour-doughs, and took great pride\nin so classifying themselves. For other men, new in the land, they felt\nnothing but disdain. The men who came ashore from the steamers were\nnewcomers. They were...
4,124	910_chapter_3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	White Fang is kept chained in a pen at the rear of the Fort, where Beauty provokes him and laughs at him, hoping to make White Fang even meaner. He is often removed from the pen and made to fight other dogs, including mastiffs, wolves, and huskies. White Fang invariably wins, no matter what kind of dog he faces. Someti...	[ "Under the tutelage of the mad god, White Fang became a fiend. He was\nkept chained in a pen at the rear of the fort, and here Beauty Smith\nteased and irritated and drove him wild with petty torments. The man\nearly discovered White Fang's susceptibility to laughter, and made it a\npoint after painfully tricking...
4,125	910_chapter_4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The chapter paints in great detail the fight between Cherokee, a bulldog owned by Tim Keenan, and White Fang. Neither is accustomed to fighting the type of dog he now faces, but both are good fighters. The crowd is with Cherokee, and White Fang does give in a couple of times, only to be enraged by Smith, who laughs and...	[ "Beauty Smith slipped the chain from his neck and stepped back.", "For once White Fang did not make an immediate attack. He stood still,\nears pricked forward, alert and curious, surveying the strange animal\nthat faced him. He had never seen such a dog before. Tim Keenan shoved\nthe bull-dog forward with a mu...
4,126	910_chapter_5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Scott, White Fangs new owner, and Matt, the dog-musher, repeatedly try to gain the trust of the wolf-dog, who constantly snarls at them and bristles at the end of his stretched chain. Scott reluctantly considers killing the ferocious White Fang, but Matt wants to give him a chance. He correctly guesses that White Fang ...	[ "\"It's hopeless,\" Weedon Scott confessed.", "He sat on the step of his cabin and stared at the dog-musher, who\nresponded with a shrug that was equally hopeless.", "Together they looked at White Fang at the end of his stretched chain,\nbristling, snarling, ferocious, straining to get at the sled-dogs. Having...
4,127	910_chapter_6	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Although Scott repeatedly tries to gain White Fang's confidence by speaking kind words and patting him gently, White Fang remains wary of him. Gradually, White Fang begins to accept Scott's spoken affection, but he still refuses to be touched or fed by the man. To build trust, Scott throws the pieces of meat, one by on...	[ "As White Fang watched Weedon Scott approach, he bristled and snarled to\nadvertise that he would not submit to punishment. Twenty-four hours had\npassed since he had slashed open the hand that was now bandaged and held\nup by a sling to keep the blood out of it. In the past White Fang had\nexperienced delayed pu...
4,128	910_chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	In this chapter, Weedon Scott prepares to leave for California, his home, knowing he must leave White Fang behind. White Fang senses the impending separation and refuses to eat again. Scott is concerned about the wolf-dog, but he is afraid he will never be tame enough to live in California. The day Scott is to leave, W...	[ "It was in the air. White Fang sensed the coming calamity, even before\nthere was tangible evidence of it. In vague ways it was borne in upon\nhim that a change was impending. He knew not how nor why, yet he got his\nfeel of the oncoming event from the gods themselves. In ways subtler\nthan they knew, they betr...
4,129	910_chapter_2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	When White Fang reaches San Francisco, he is chained in a cage and put on a baggage cart; he is amazed at the sight of the tall buildings, crowded streets, and horse carts. When they arrive at Scott's country home, they are greeted by Scott's mother, who warmly embraces her son. White Fang sees this as a hostile act an...	[ "White Fang landed from the steamer in San Francisco. He was appalled.\nDeep in him, below any reasoning process or act of consciousness, he had\nassociated power with godhead. And never had the white men seemed such\nmarvellous gods as now, when he trod the slimy pavement of San Francisco.\nThe log cabins he had...
4,130	910_chapter_3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	White Fangs experiences at Sierra Vista, Scotts residence, are described in this chapter. Scotts family is also introduced. Dick, the deeerhound, has accepted White Fang, and they do fine together; but White Fang tries to avoid Collie, who still tries to stand in his way. White Fang also learns to like Weedon and Maud,...	[ "Not only was White Fang adaptable by nature, but he had travelled much,\nand knew the meaning and necessity of adjustment. Here, in Sierra Vista,\nwhich was the name of Judge Scott's place, White Fang quickly began to\nmake himself at home. He had no further serious trouble with the dogs.\nThey knew more about t...
4,131	910_chapter_4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	White Fang does not really have much to do in California. At first, he is not friendly with the other dogs and vaguely misses the excitement of fighting. When Scott goes out on horseback, White Fang eagerly follows, traveling for miles. Once, Scott falls off his horse and breaks his leg. Unable to move, he orders White...	[ "The months came and went. There was plenty of food and no work in the\nSouthland, and White Fang lived fat and prosperous and happy. Not alone\nwas he in the geographical Southland, for he was in the Southland of\nlife. Human kindness was like a sun shining upon him, and he flourished\nlike a flower planted in ...
4,132	910_chapter_5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	This last chapter tells of an escaped convict, Jim Hall. He was long ago sentenced to fifty years in prison by Judge Scott. Innocent of the crime, Hall resents the judge who put him away and seeks revenge. Three years of life in a prison cell have made him morose, indignant, violent, and bitter. He escapes from jail by...	[ "It was about this time that the newspapers were full of the daring escape\nof a convict from San Quentin prison. He was a ferocious man. He had\nbeen ill-made in the making. He had not been born right, and he had not\nbeen helped any by the moulding he had received at the hands of society.\nThe hands of society...
4,134	1112_act_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Prologue The chorus introduces the play and establishes the plot that will unfold. They explain how two families in Verona - the Capulets and the Montagues - have reignited an ancient feud, and how two lovers, one from each family, will commit suicide after becoming entangled in this conflict. These lovers are Juliet C...	[ "ACT I. Scene I.\nVerona. A public place.", "Enter Sampson and Gregory (with swords and bucklers) of the house\nof Capulet.", "Samp. Gregory, on my word, we'll not carry coals.", "Greg. No, for then we should be colliers.", "Samp. I mean, an we be in choler, we'll draw.", "Greg. Ay, while you live, draw y...
4,135	1112_act_2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Introduction The Chorus explains that Romeo has traded his old desire for a new affection, and that Juliet has also fallen in love. Though their secret romance puts Romeo and Juliet at risk, their passion drives them to meet, regardless of the danger. Act Two, Scene One Out in the street, Romeo escapes from Mercutio an...	[ "ACT II. Scene I.\nA lane by the wall of Capulet's orchard.", "Enter Romeo alone.", "Rom. Can I go forward when my heart is here?\n Turn back, dull earth, and find thy centre out.\n [Climbs the wall and leaps down within it.]", "Enter Benvolio with Mercutio.", "Ben. Romeo! my cousin R...

Subsets and Splits

No community queries yet

The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.