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JACK LONDON'S SOME OF THE POPULAR WORKS MENTION BELOW.
1 - The call of the Wild
2- White Fang
3- Martin Eden
4- To build a Fire
5- The sea Wolf
Here, I took 5 Major Works of Jack London and Relevant Articals upon it.
JACK LONDON - THE WOLF
The epigraph of the first chapter of American writer Jack London’s The Call of the Wild sets up the story of a dog named Buck quite nicely. It goes: “Old longings nomadic leap". In this adventure tale of human-animal conflict and its consequences in seven chapters, each one’s title is used to take the theme forward.(DATTA)
"White Fang is a story about a wolf-dog that is rescued from an abusive and horrible owner, Beauty Smith. With the kindness and love he is shown with his new owner, Weedon Scott, he slowly becomes domesticated, or tame, and defends his new family.
This novel was written in 1906 by Jack London and depicts life in 1800s America, with the Gold Rush and Yukon Territory as the background. This story also changes perspective, or point of view, and allows readers to get closer to the minds of humans and wolves".(ARMENDARIZ)
Martin Eden is an impoverished sailor who pursues, obsessively and aggressively, dreams of education and literary fame.
He educates himself feverishly and becomes a writer, hoping to acquire the respectability sought by his society-girl sweetheart. She spurns him, however, when his writing is rejected by several magazines and even more so when he is falsely accused of being a socialist. After he achieves fame, she tries to win him back but Martin realizes her love is false. Financially successful and robbed of connection to his own class, aware that his quest for bourgeois respectability was hollow, Eden travels to the Pacific as a sailor again (SMOSER).
In northern Canada, a solitary hiker and his dog depart from the main yukon train. At the end of their day hike, the man will be reunited with his traveling companions, who he refers to as “the boys” at the Henderson Camp. The man is a newcomer to this area and unfamiliar with the extreme cold temperatures. A weather forecast of fifty degrees below zero does not mean much to the man, who is competent but lacks imagination. Such extreme temperatures promise discomfort, but do not cause him to reflect on the risks, his own death, and his role in the natural world.
"A thrilling epic of a sea voyage and a complex novel of ideas, The Sea-Wolf is a standard-bearer of its genre. It is the vivid story of a gentleman scholar, Humphrey Van Weyden, who is rescued by a seal-hunting schooner after a ferryboat accident in San Francisco Bay. London uses Van Weyden’s ordeal at the hands of a schooner’s devious crew to explore powerful themes of ambition, courage, and the innate will to survive. The Sea-Wolf also introduces Jack London’s most memorable, fully realized character, Wolf Larsen, the schooner’s brutal captain, who ruthlessly crushes anyone standing in his way. As Gary Kinder states in his Introduction, "Wolf Larsen is one of the most carefully carved characters in American literature….London, himself, seems as fascinated as the reader with his own creation."(KINDER)
WORK CITATION
- Ammendariz, Angie, in a Depth Look at 'White Fang', Study.com, 2022.
- Andrea, Smoser, The Happy Hermit, Andreasmoser.Blog, 2016.
- Dutta, Sudipta, 'The Call of Wild', The Hindu.com, 2018.
- Kinder, Gary, The sea Wolf, Panguinerandomhouse.com
- To build a Fire Summary by Lit Charts.
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