Love of life" précis
A young man struggles for survival, going on an expedition in search of gold. He runs into many challenges …show more content…
London uses repetition to show exactly what he is trying to say for example in the very first sentence of "To Build a Fire" London says " Day broke cold and grey, exceedingly cold and grey." London uses tone to clearly show how the person feels about the situation they are in, like in "Love of Life"the tone is very depressing when the man is fighting for survival and starving and trying to build up enough strength to even move. Concrete imagery is one of the style devises London uses a lot, in "Love of Life" when London says "there were four newly hatched chicks, a day old - little specks of pulsating life no more than a mouth full; and he ate them ravenously, thrusting them alive into his mouth and crunching them like egg shells in his teeth." That sentence creates an image in your head of a man eating poor helpless baby chicks. London uses subject-verb-object sentence structure in many of his sentences like in "To Build a Fire" "He plunged in among the big spruce trees." This sentence is very to the point. London uses short sentences for an emotional and immediate impact. In "To Build a Fire" "All this the man knew." One short sentence that shows you everything he knew. Jack London uses many different style devises in his …show more content…
He also uses this in "To Build a Fire" when the man blows off the old guy and doesn't listen to the old man because he's "an old time what does he know", this happens often in real life many kids don't listen to their grandparents because they "are old and times have changed". London uses determinism in his writing also like in "Love of Life advice. The man wasn't prepared for the cold, he was only wearing moccasins, and he didn't take the the old man's advice about it being dangerous to go out into the wilderness. London's uses determinism in his writing also like in "To Build a Fire" when the old timer warns the man of the dangers of going out to chop down trees and the man just blows him off, it is predetermined that the old timer is going to be right and the man is going to regret? Face the consequences later. London also uses Regionalism is his story's, many of London's story's take place during the gold rush and in Yukon, Both "To Build a Fire" and "Love of Life" are examples of this. Jack London uses many thematic meanings in his story's.theme in the "Love of Life" is survival, one man on his own without many supplies try's to make it out in the cold dangers of earth. London has many themes in his