Jack London Essay

An animal, like a wolf, has to learn to adapt very quickly to its surroundings. Even though it is a predator, it still will be prey to some other animals. White Fang is a fiction book for young adults by Jack London, that is about a young wolf going through life and learning to adjust to the life of a domestic dog. The theme of White Fang is that change is hard. You can’t just adjust right off the bat, it takes patience and time. There are many instances that prove this theme true. In Chapter…

“She lay there limp and lifeless in the bloody, trampled snow, almost literally torn to pieces, the swart half-breed standing over her and cursing horribly” (London 17). The adventure novel The Call Of The Wild by Jack London, was based on Buck the main character who got dog-napped, and taken to the Yukon. Buck needed to survive the Yukon gold rush, and soon learned that from the death of one of his teammates on the dogsled team. Buck wanted to survive in the Yukon and stay fit for that. To…

London’s novella Call of the Wild tells the story of Buck’s transformation from a domesticated pet on a vast Santa Clara Valley estate to the primal killer he becomes in the bitter regions of the Klondike wilderness. London delivers Buck’s journey in a plot consisting of only three simple, but major, events and uses settings and narration to tell the story in a way that allows a reader to easily become invested in Buck’s character from the viewpoint of a loyal and lovable pet, as well as, that…

art”(“Naturalism”). Naturalism is a movement that valued ideas about how the environment shaped and dictated how humans lived. This movement was constructed off of Darwin’s Theory of Evolution and followed his concept of “survival of the fittest.” In Jack London’s “The Law of Life” he uses the setting and various symbols to demonstrate his belief in naturalism. Throughout the story, different symbols such as a moose, fire, and Koshkoosh demonstrate this principle. He had also used the season to…

them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.” (Yann Martle) As the quote from Yann Martle shows above, you can tell that a major theme in Jack London's classic book Call of the Wild is that adaptability is essential for survival, which Buck goes throughout the whole story. At the beginning, buck has to adapt to the hostile environment of Alaska. First, Buck went from living to sun…

he shall be glad with me” (Emerson). Emerson states in this quote that nature protects people and will appreciate them, even though they make mistakes, and this quote shows that nature can sometimes protect people and not be as antagonistic, as London believes. Emerson, conversely, states “Nature is a setting that fits equally well a comic or a mourning piece” (Emerson). This quote substantiates that nature can either be inimical or nurturing to man because time spent in nature can be…

In the short story, “How to Build a Fire,” the author (Jack London) crafts two characters. One is static while the other one is dynamic. The story takes place in the coldest parts of Alaska. A man followed the gold rush there, and finds himself in the middle of Alaska alone with a dog. The dog always thinks of him as the food and fire provider. While the dog doesn’t change the whole story (stays static) the man’s idea of the trip and his thoughts and mind change (dynamic). In the story the dog…

“The day broke cold and grey, exceedingly cold and grey” (London 76). In Jack London’s “To Build a Fire”, the man in the story is faced with the ultimate cold in the Yukon climate. He comes across challenges that could be life or death in certain situations, and he must focus and maintain his cool. Eventually, he ends up dying because he wasn’t prepared for the climate he was facing. Three things that got the man killed in the story were that he unsuccessfully built a fire when he needed to, he…

Is life on the road for everyone? Life on the road is not for everybody which in theory is understandable because traveling can be unpredictable. People who do not like to travel have their reasons; some people may say that they dislike traveling because they find it to be boring, while others will say that traveling causes them to stress due to fear of the unknown and therefore would rather avoid unnecessary worries and fears. There is also many thrill-seeking people who find that traveling the…

leadership and determination, White Fang survives in the Yukon Territory successfully. This Yukon Territory is no easy place to live at this time, that’s why it takes a youthful and resolute character to thrive in this land. In White Fang, written by Jack London, he demonstrates the power of courage, love, and Darwinism. Stepping out and making a difference remains one of the most difficult things to do in the world. White Fang develops this at an early age. He starts out in a cave as a young…