How Did Jack London Influence The World

Think of Albert Einstein, Jackie Robinson, Martin Luther King Jr. Now think of all the things they did that influenced the world. Alan Boone, one of London’s boss’s, talked about how London could have changed the world with his books. London as a boy, grew up in the working class. He read about other writers and their novels, inspired by them, he took it upon himself to read and write novels of his own. The Call of the Wild is one of his most known books and the main theme of his book is the struggle for power. THESIS

John London, later adopted the name of Jack, was born in San Francisco in 1876. While his mother Flora Wellman was ill, he was raised by an ex-slave Virginia Prentiss. Later that year Jack’s mother, Flora, married John
London. Once they were married, Flora brought her young child to live with her and her new husband and in Oakland, California. As a young boy, London worked hard, laboring jobs, desperately searching for a way out. When he was fourteen, London had just finished the eighth grade, but his mother and stepfather could not afford to send him to high school, so he dropped out of school to break away from the hardship life he led to find adventure. In his free time, London would always be in the library reading different kinds of novels of Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Nietzsche and many more. At the age of

nineteen he decided to return and take all his high school courses within one year.
In his time back London ended up back at his mother’s house. During his time there, London soon realized that he had to study and work a job to earn his living. His time in school got him extremely interested in politics, especially socialism. He got involved with the Socialist Labor Party. Which eventually, he got kicked out of high school for it. Because he got kicked out of high school, London had to study on his own to pass the exams to get into the University of California, Berkeley. London got accepted. Unfortunately, after taking on year of class he dropped out and decided to follow the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897. Coming back the following year, he concluded that he was going to be a writer. Some of the experiences he had while away for the Klondike Gold Rush would pursue some of his best stories. Three years later he wrote “An Odyssey of the North”, which gave him his first success. Later that year, London married Bessie Maddern. It wasn’t love for why he married Bessie, it was because he believed that they were socially and genetically compatible for each other. They were blessed with two daughters, Joan and Becky, but as soon as his writing had taking off he began to isolate himself from his family to spend more time with his colleagues with the same scholarly interests. In 1902, London began to write “The Call of the Wild”. The following year, “The Call of the Wild” was published and he divorced his wife of three
years.