In a quote from the book to help support this thinking The setting in White Fang has an impact on the plot since it clarifies the types of weather and difficult conditions that the characters and animals had to endure. (cite where in the novel this quote came from, chapter, and page)
"Daylight came at nine o'clock. At the mouth of the Mackenzie River, one could scarcely see across the fifty yards of tumbling water to the foaming white head beyond where the waves were fighting their way into the Arctic ice" (Chapter 1, page 1).
