Read this excerpt from White Fang. Hated by his kind and by mankind, indomitable, perpetually warred upon and himself waging perpetual war, his development was rapid and one-sided. This was no soil for kindliness and affection to blossom in. Of such things he had not the faintest glimmering. The code he learned was to obey the strong and to oppress the weak. Grey Beaver was a god, and strong. Therefore White Fang obeyed him. But the dog younger or smaller than himself was weak, a thing to be destroyed.

What motivates White Fang “to obey the strong and to oppress the weak”?

1.the hostility of the other characters in the story

2.the wolf instincts he inherited from his father

3.the wildness of the woods near the camp

4.the hatred he feels toward the man-animals