The Call of the Wild is a literary work written by Jack London that is considered one of the worldwide classics despite of how much it has been criticized for being both too radical and its intense violence. This book grew so popular among the crowds that even the Nazis had to burn the copies of the book along with other works’ due to its strong socialist influences.
According to R. Wolf Baldassarro, The Call of the Wild, “carries a dark tone, and the mature concepts explored in the story contain numerous scenes of cruelty and violence.” This is another reason why this book has also been challenged in other countries such as Italy and Yugoslavia.
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When he was released from imprisonment for vagrancy in 1894, Jack had a new point of view of what he wanted to do with his life, and decided to go into education and begin pursuing a career in writing. From the experience and type of lifestyle that he had of poverty among with other men and women, he began to gain socialist aspects and embraced it for the rest of his life. After completing one semester at the
University of California, he left to the Klondike region in the Yukon for the Klondike gold rush.
Although he failed as a gold prospector, he gained knowledge from his experience and went through many positive and negative incidents that influenced him in the writings of some books such as The Son of the Wolf (1900), and the canine narratives, The Call of the Wild (1903), and
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White Fang (1906). According to Sara S. Hodson, a curator of literary manuscripts at the
Huntington Library in San Marino, California, “London saw dogsled teams in the Klondike [and] the way they behaved. He saw the way they were treated by their owners and mistreated. He saw life at its most harsh, at its most elemental, where to make a very small mistake can mean
According to R. Wolf Baldassarro, The Call of the Wild, “carries a dark tone, and the mature concepts explored in the story contain numerous scenes of cruelty and violence.” This is another reason why this book has also been challenged in other countries such as Italy and Yugoslavia.
Jack London, born John Griffith Chaney, is an American author best known for his adventure novels …show more content…
When he was released from imprisonment for vagrancy in 1894, Jack had a new point of view of what he wanted to do with his life, and decided to go into education and begin pursuing a career in writing. From the experience and type of lifestyle that he had of poverty among with other men and women, he began to gain socialist aspects and embraced it for the rest of his life. After completing one semester at the
University of California, he left to the Klondike region in the Yukon for the Klondike gold rush.
Although he failed as a gold prospector, he gained knowledge from his experience and went through many positive and negative incidents that influenced him in the writings of some books such as The Son of the Wolf (1900), and the canine narratives, The Call of the Wild (1903), and
PAMELA BUENTELLO: you need a title
Torres 2
White Fang (1906). According to Sara S. Hodson, a curator of literary manuscripts at the
Huntington Library in San Marino, California, “London saw dogsled teams in the Klondike [and] the way they behaved. He saw the way they were treated by their owners and mistreated. He saw life at its most harsh, at its most elemental, where to make a very small mistake can mean