How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph) Shmoop has numbered the chapters continuously, but the book renumbers them in each Part.
Quote #4
His bondage had softened him. Irresponsibility had weakened him. He had forgotten how to shift for himself. The night yawned about him. (12.5)
Here's confinement of a mental sort. White Fang's gotten soft and can't fend for himself. It's kind of hard do whatever you please in the wilderness when you're afraid of it and don't know what to do. Does that mean he can't ever be free again?
Quote #5
But it did not all happen in a day, this giving over of himself, body and soul, to the man-animals. He could not immediately forego his wild heritage and his memories of the Wild. (10.5)
Physical confinement takes place in a minute. But mental confinement, the kind that really sticks? That takes time. Unfortunately, once it gets set up, he can't ever really get rid of it. Bummer, wolf dude.