Throughout Jack London’s life he worked in many different areas and gained many different experiences that most other authors only heard about. He was an active participant in the socialist party. He had his own brand of socialism by combining the thoughts of survival of the fittest with the inevitable triumph of the working class. These ideals were evident in some of his stories. His idea of survival of the fittest came out in "The Law of Life." The story starts off with the narrator talking about
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South of the slot‚ by Jack London The slot is a metaphor of the "class cleavage of society". There was a contrast between the North and South of the Slot in terms of building types: in the North were the higher-class centers of diversion‚ lodging‚ and business; and in the South were the lower-class centers of lodging‚ unskilled work/business. The buildings are figures of two contrasting classes that were segregated (?). In order to study the southern people (the working class) a sociology professor
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Yellow jacks‚ paper wasp‚ and hornets have to work in colonies to protect their nest and there own kind. Each has a job to protect their own and have to do it or they can die. Every time they see a person they don’t attack unless you do something to them if you don’t do anything they won’t attack you. If you don’t bother you won’t be attacked. So people should work together to keep eachother safe know matter how they look to you or if there different you still should care for them. People usually
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In Jack London’s to Build a Fire‚ an unnamed man travels through the cold winter in Yukon. He is a newcomer to Yukon and does not care about how terribly cold it is. He is not bothered by the freezing weather or the fact that there is no sunshine. An old-timer warns him about traveling alone especially while it’s fifty degrees below zero however‚ the man shrugs off his warning and calls him womanish for saying this to him. The man’s careless decision unfortunately costs him his life. After dismissing
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Such an example is in "To Build a Fire" by Jack London. As seen in this quote‚ "The man turned aside from the Yukon trail and climbed the high earth-bank‚ where a dim and little-traveled trail led eastward through the fat spruce timberland. It was a steep bank‚ and he paused for breath at the top
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2019 will mark the 70th anniversary of Jack Schaefer’s canonical American Western novel Shane. Several years before his death in 1991‚ Schaefer commented that “all responsible writers of fiction‚ whatever form their work tales‚ are reformers at heart‚” who are “dissatisfied with the world as it is and write about it as they believe it should be.” Jerry Xie‚ an English and Critical Theory professor at Lanzhou Jiaotong University in northwestern China‚ believes that the need to examine how and why
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“To Build a Fire” is a short story that was written by Jack London in 1908. It tells the story of a man traveling through the woods in severely cold conditions‚ with only a dog and not nearly enough knowledge on how to make it back to his camp safely. While reading this‚ you notice several aspects of the man‚ specifically how he relates to his dog and the environment he is in. From the beginning‚ you notice the man doesn’t really have a special relationship with his dog. In fact he seems to only
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Jack London’s book‚ The Call of the Wild is about a domestic house dog who is thrown into the unknown and harsh life of a Klondike sled dog. This book was banned and removed from the high school curriculum for reasons that suggest animal cruelty‚ violent scenes‚ and dark tone and themes that are not suitable for younger children. Despite these reason‚ The Call of the Wild should remain in the curriculum because it also contains some reoccurring themes of perseverance and bravery that many could learn
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man and his dog walk miles in the bitter cold trying to stay alive. Walking aside from the main Yukon trail in the cold winter midday‚ without the sun beating down giving the protagonist heat‚ he feels frozen as if he has not seen the sun in days. Jack London‚ the author of To Build A Fire‚ goes into immense detail throughout the story to draw his readers into the setting of the crisp winter chill. London’s vast description of the environment allows his readers to picture every single object throughout
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worst outcome of all‚ death. When put in a situation that forces one to concede defeat and realize that nature is an environment in which the occupants are solely reliant‚ a feeling of confidence can switch to dubiousness. In To Build a Fire‚ author Jack London strengthens the effect of nature on a man when he develops traits of egotism and ascendancy. The Yukon‚ a territory in northwest Canada‚ is a wild and mountainous region that is sparsely populated. Though it doesn’t embrace human existence
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