The Call for Power
Think of Albert Einstein, Jackie Robinson, Martin Luther King Jr. Now think of all the things they did that influenced the world. Jack London’s former boss once said, "Jack London could have changed the world with his books"(McAleer 19).
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 …show more content…
It’s natural beauty just put London at a loss for words. By experiencing Sonoma Valley’s natural beauty London later stated that, “ when I first came here, tired of the city and people, I settled down on a small farm so run down that it revealed its natural beauty.” They soon began to build a home they called Wolf House. But before they could officially move in, it caught on fire and burned down. The loss of Wolf House left London extremely depressed, nevertheless he still pushed himself to write at a minimum of one thousand words a day, and expand his farm that he owned. His immense ideas for his farm continuously caused him to stay in debt and write faster so he could keep expanding. London started and alcohol problem when he was merely seven years old and it only got worse. His doctors recommended that he stop his abusive use of alcohol, eat healthier and exercise more. However, he did not listen he kept going at the pace he was. Eventually in 1916, London died at forty due to gastrointestinal uremic poisoning. Over a time period of fifteen years, London wrote more than fifty fiction and nonfiction books, including one of his most popular ones, “The Call of the Wild.”
“The Call of the Wild" was written in 1902, and published in 1903. London wrote this book just shortly after he returned from the Canadian North during the Klondike Gold Rush. Upon returning he claimed to his wife and friends that a spiritual wolf inspiring the
Think of Albert Einstein, Jackie Robinson, Martin Luther King Jr. Now think of all the things they did that influenced the world. Jack London’s former boss once said, "Jack London could have changed the world with his books"(McAleer 19).
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 …show more content…
It’s natural beauty just put London at a loss for words. By experiencing Sonoma Valley’s natural beauty London later stated that, “ when I first came here, tired of the city and people, I settled down on a small farm so run down that it revealed its natural beauty.” They soon began to build a home they called Wolf House. But before they could officially move in, it caught on fire and burned down. The loss of Wolf House left London extremely depressed, nevertheless he still pushed himself to write at a minimum of one thousand words a day, and expand his farm that he owned. His immense ideas for his farm continuously caused him to stay in debt and write faster so he could keep expanding. London started and alcohol problem when he was merely seven years old and it only got worse. His doctors recommended that he stop his abusive use of alcohol, eat healthier and exercise more. However, he did not listen he kept going at the pace he was. Eventually in 1916, London died at forty due to gastrointestinal uremic poisoning. Over a time period of fifteen years, London wrote more than fifty fiction and nonfiction books, including one of his most popular ones, “The Call of the Wild.”
“The Call of the Wild" was written in 1902, and published in 1903. London wrote this book just shortly after he returned from the Canadian North during the Klondike Gold Rush. Upon returning he claimed to his wife and friends that a spiritual wolf inspiring the