Question

competing motivations: setting and instinct
highlight examples of influences on white fangs motivation in this passage.
when dogs fight, there are usually preliminaries to the actual combat - snarlings and bristlings and stiff - legged struttings. but white fang learned to omit these preliminaries. delay meant the coming against him of all the young dogs. he must do his work quickly and get away. so he learned to give no warning of his intention.
—white fang,
jack london
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an example of how setting influences white fang in this passage is
how hes scared in the preliminaries to combat
how the young dogs respond to him
how bristlings are important to his adjustment
how he must adapt to an atmosphere of fighting

Explanation:

The passage shows White Fang adapting to the fighting - setting by omitting preliminaries as delay is dangerous in the fighting atmosphere.

Answer:

how he must adapt to an atmosphere of fighting