Compare And Contrast To Build A Fire And Love Of Life By Jack London

The Alaskan a Gold Rush. It was an big deal in the late 1800s. It attracted many people all over North America from Canada to Mexico. Everyone wanted to go to Alaska just got this. It was a outburst of people. It drew a lot of attention! There we many stories and novels written about the gold rush, such as "Gold Rush Fever" or the Last Great Gold a Rush. But there are two stories by Jack London that he had written about gold in this time era. The two books that he wrote are "the Love of Life and "To build a Fire". Jack London uses are straight forward and the traits he uses shows that men have no power in nature.

Love of life" précis
A young man struggles for survival, going on an expedition in search of gold. He runs into many challenges
starting with Bill leaving him behind to fend by himself, to him using up all his supplies and eating everything he can find, including baby chicks. Eventually he loses everything his shoes his gun any technology he had. Up until he is so weak he can't stand, and is facing a sick wolf. Then after he kills the wolf and is laying lifeless on his back, he is spotted and rescued by some scientist on a boat.

"To build a fire" Précis
A man traveling with his dog, looking for trees to cut down, trying to make it back home to where the others are waiting for them to return, run into some troubles along the way. He isn't prepared for what the cold winter has in store. The dog falls into the freezing water and the man has to stop to build a fire he built it under a tree and the snow falls off the tree and puts the fire out. Later the man falls in the freezing water that almost turns to ice as he hits it, he wants to keep moving and go to the cabin, but the dog leads him and knows they must stop and build a fire to try to get warm, this time the fire is put out by the snow blowing on it. Later the man try's to kill the dog so he can put his hands inside to warm them, but the dog is in his natural habitat and is too smart , He gets a away and goes back to the camp to get food and warmth. Later the man dies.

Biography

According to biography.com he was born 1876-1916. His original name was John Griffith London, but he later adopted the name Jack. Jack always struggled for money. He grew it in the working class and took on many odd jobs, such as "riding trains, pirating oysters, shoveling coal, work on a sailing ship, and found unemployment in a cannery. As a kid, he would go yo the library after work/school and go and read. He would be there for hours. He spent the winter of 1897 in the Yukon provided the metaphorical gold for his first stories, which he began publishing in the Overland Monthly in 1899. By age 30, he was internationally famous for his first book he wrote "Call of the wild" 1903. Although London only had an 8th grade education, he was one of the most popular writers of his time. He won the $25 first prize, beating out college students from Berkeley and Stanford. After the contest he decided to dedicate his life to writing short stories. London had a lot of trouble finding publishers that were willing to look at his work. He hadn't much of a career, even at the age of 22, but he was still determined to be a writer. He went to the Yukon in search of gold during the gold rush, his experience there convinced him he had stories to tell, experiences to share. In 1899 he began publishing many stories, Starting from that time forward he made it a goal to write at least 1000 words a day. London found fame in 1903 with his novel, "the call of the wild". That kick started his career and successes later in life

Writing styles
Jack London is a very straight forward writer.
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
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There are many thematic meanings in literature. Jack London is known for using many of them in his writings. An example of this is naturalism, London uses naturalism in many of his stories, like for example in his story "Love of Life"- the man in the "love of life" knows the berries weren't helping him in any way, but he continued to eat them because he was so hungry his mind was making him think "it's food and I'm eating". London also uses naturalism in "To Build a Fire", for example the dog knew they shouldn't leave the fire and start towards the cabin again the man didn't he wanted to continue, but the dog leaned back by the fire knowing how cold it is.
Another form of this is Realism, London uses this in many of his stories like in the Love of Life" the man almost starving to death is a real life thing that may have happened.
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
writings.
Jack London uses many style devises and tones in his writings. He uses many different tones, and thematic meeting. In the story's "Love of Life" and "to Build a Fire" he uses many of these techniques. London is a very straight forward writer. London was very popular in his time of writing. London always had a lesson in his story's.