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Jack London was born in San Francisco, California and on the date of January 12 ,1876. When Jack was 30 years old, he was a famous author of Call of the wild, The Sea Wolf and White Fang which were all great books. Jack‘s stories are about great questions of life and also wrote about the great struggle of life and death. Each and every story Jack wrote was wrote quite passionately and he also based them off of personal events while he was sailing in the Canadian sea. The topic that will be…

I read the book Firestorm written by David Klass, a book about Jack Danielson’s venture to fight the Dark Army, protect what’s left of the world’s oceans, and locate Firestorm, the ultimate weapon to reverse the destruction of planet Earth. Jack starts out his career as an avid explorer in a normal town living a normal life, where he excels in numerous sports and academic activities. Everything comes easy to Jack which is why he is always confused at why his parents don’t want him to shine like…

The theme of survival is achieved in both texts, by the characters Brian and Buck. In both excerpts they have to deal with a problem that has to do with survival, and surviving on their own. In the Excerpt from “Brian’s Winter” the main character is a boy named Brian who faces survival in the woods after a plane crash, but doesn't always think before he acts. In the story, he acts without thinking, and attacks a bear which in return attacks him. In the text, it states,” ‘Hey---get out of…

In “To build a fire”, Jack London tells the story of a Man and his dog’s journey on the Yukon trail as they go against nature to reach camp. London was born in 1876 to a working class family. Throughout his life he worked many jobs such as a gold prospector in the Klondike. While working in the Klondike he got the inspiration for “to build a fire” and then based it on some of his experiences, like facing the harsh arctic temperatures. The man in this story goes against extreme weather conditions…

Hal was a very cold-blooded and inexperienced man. John Thornton stated, “I tell you straight, I would risk my carcass on that ice for all the gold in Alaska.” Hal was told not to cross the river, but he did not listen which lead to him and the sled dogs dying in the river. Hal was very stubborn as he never listened to the beneficial advice the people gave him. As stated in chapter 5, page 101…

The character, the man, from "To Build a Fire" was arrogant in his decision to face the wild alone. If he had waited for the cold to stop or traveled with someone he might have survived. He was told it was dangerous. He chose to ignore the advice of others. He believed he was capable of survivin on his own. He brought only the supplies and wore only the clothing he thought he would need for the cold weather. He had never been in this cold of weather before but felt he had prepared and…

In the wild outback of Peru during the 15th century of the Indian, lives Wildflower, a half-breed wolf who had a sense of pride and lived without a care in the world, only doing the right thing when it’s necessary. He is the son of Black Wolf, leader of the Sindarin tribe who had fur as dark as the night died tragically before Wildflower was born under mysterious circumstances and his mother Mahi, whose fur was white as the son raised her son all could before she died. As an adult, Wildflower…

challenges traveling through Yukon Klondike. The man faced challenges because he was not very prepared to travel through the Yukon Klondike do to the harsh weather. The man was very confident, and arrogant through out his journey trying yo look for gold. In the story he was affected mainly by the setting for which situations he couldn’t stop. The settings in “To build a fire” impacted the man physically, mentally, and emotionally. In the story “To build a fire” the man was impacted by the…

Don't Overestimate your Capabilities “Day have broken cold and gray, exceedingly cold and gray, when the man turned aside from the Yukon trail and climbed the edge of the high earth-bank, where a big and little traveled trail led eastwards through the fat spruce timberland”. That was what an example the story uses literary elements like imagery in the story “To Build a Fire by Jack London”. This story is told about this man was walking on the Yukon trail in Alaska. It was very cold outside like…

social unrest and economics pressures in China, one of the main reasons for them to immigrate to the States was to seek economics opportunities so that they were able to send money back home for their families. At first, they were attracted by the gold rush in California, later many of the Chinese men chose to take up low-skilled jobs, such as: manual labourers in construction, agriculture, manufacturing…