The Sea Wolf By Jack London

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Tylor Mateunas Book Report
The novel The Sea Wolf is a historical nonfiction book written by Jack London. It is a harder level of reading skill, because not all of the words are spelled like normal. There are also some hard words in the book that someone might not understand. It is based during 1904, with the main character Humphrey Van Weden. It is when Humphrey is picked up by a passing sealing ship. This ship he has been picked up by is known as “Ghost”. He then meets the captain of the ship, Captain Larsen, and gets his nickname, “Hump”.
The setting takes place on a sealing ship known as Ghost heading towards Japan. The items in the environment affect the characters and the plot because if there were not items like harpoons,

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