...Kolsrud November 14, 2013 Into The Wild “Christopher McCandless's Influences, Relationships, and Preparation forAlaskas survival.” The influences from the authors and books chris read, shows us all how he related himself from the quotes that are in this book. Chris carved in to a piece of wood that was discovered on the bus at the scene of chris' death, that Jack London is KING, and also used a passage from White Fang (9). The passage chris read says, Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean toward each other, black and ominous, in the fading light. A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it was not even that of sadness. There was a hint in it of laughter, but of a laughter more terrible than any sadness-a laughter that was mirthless as the smile of the Sphinx, a laughter cold as the frost and partaking of the grimness of infallibility. It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen- hearted Northland Wild (JACK LONDON, White Fang) (9). Chris related to this passage because it described what his present surroundings were exactually like. The passage from Leo Tolstoy tittled “Family Happiness” was also found with Chris McCandless's remains (15). Chris...
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...Ever wondered about the savagery of the wild? White Fang, by Jack London, gives you a glimpse into what it’s like. This book is fiction because it follows wolves and dogs and knows what they are thinking. Most of White Fang takes place in the Yukon and Northwest Territories, but toward the end of the story, the setting changes to California. The book is during the Klondike Gold Rush. White Fang is written in third person point of view. This helps with the plot because we know what everyone is thinking. The main protagonist of White Fang, is White Fang, the son of a half dog, half wolf and a full bred wolf. He had many siblings, but he was the only one who could survive the famines. White Fang is born in the wild, so he has great instincts....
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...Jack London The life experiences of John Griffith, or more commonly known as Jack London, are portrayed throughout his many stories. His stories reflect the strengths and weaknesses of the living creature (be it more or beast). Jack London began his adventures at a very early age. Born out of wedlock and into a poverty-ridden family he learned to find ways of escaping the dull routine of work. At the age of ten London was selling newspapers to supplement the family income. He labored in canneries, mills, doing laundry and shoveling coal so that he could support his family. Between the laborious chores of earning a living London also had numerous adventures when he tried the other side of the law. The adventures started when he buys himself a small skiff and teaches himself to sail but the pressures of home life take that away from he and he is forced to work at a cannery starting at the tender age of 14. Even at that age Jack London still had continuous thoughts of writing for a living. At the age of 15 London is tired of the low wages and the back breaking work of the factory and decides to take matters into his own hands. He sails out to become an Oyster pirate with the ship “The Razzle Dazzle” that he purchases with money borrowed from Virginia Prentiss. The title “Prince of the Oyster Pirates” is soon given to him, but he soon becomes disillusioned with the rough life and decides to change to the other side of the law again. The next year...
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...Naturalism in The Call of the Wild Jack London was born on January 12, 1876 to a working class family. He had to deal with a hard life from a very young age, but his constant struggling got him through most of the difficulties and by the age of 30, he was internationally famous for his books Call of the Wild (1903), The Sea Wolf (1904) and other successful literay works. Though he wrote passionately about the great questions of life and death and the struggle to survive with dignity and integrity, he also sought peace and quiet inspiration. He wished society to be reformed that he expressed through his writings. His stories of high adventure were based on his own experiences at sea, in the Yukon Territory, and in the fields and factories of California. Similar to a number of writers at that time, he died young, at the age of 40, impoverished (again), sick and suffering from alcoholism. To this day it is still unclear if he the cause of death was accidental morphine overdose or he commited suicide. He as well was a fairly controversial person, so that different authors look at him in various ways: ”The basic law of his thinking was logic. His literary style was the clear, obvious and unmistakable sentences of the beautiful English language. ’The Call of the Wild’ serves as the reference book of English stylistics on Sorbonne. He was the man of facts: not to be afraid of looking inside of the eyes of reality, a great view of life. But Jack London's inner debates did not let...
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...Catherine Murray Research Paper Jack London Jack London was a great American writer, author, and journalist in the nineteenth century. He was born John Griffith Chaney, in San Francisco, California. London worked in the Klondike for a few years and then began to write and publish books and stories. His books became very successful which made him one of the most popular authors of the nineteenth century. Jack grew up in a hard working-class. He pretty much paved out the way for his own life and success. He rode trains, worked on oyster ships, shoveled coal, and found employment in a cannery. These experiments inspired him in writing some of his stories, as he really enjoyed to read and write at libraries in his free time. His writing career basically began in 1893, the year that he went out on a sealing voyage in which him and his crew almost got taken out by a typhoon. Jack London’s writing career started off by his mother encouraging him to submit one of his stories to one of the local newspapers for a writing contest. Jack was 17 at the time and even though he only had an eighth grade education, he had won the first prize of twenty-five dollars, and had beat college students from Stanford and Berkley. After this experience, he decided that he would begin to dedicate his life to writing short stories, but he had a difficult time finding publishers. He then enrolled at the University of California Berkeley, but only for a brief time before he traveled north to Canada...
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...It says: “Crispin, . . . in that place they had me, I heard chants coming from the cathedral. The priests were singing, 'Media vita in morte summas,' which means 'In the misdt of life there is death. But, Crispin,” he said, “can't you see the new truth we've made? In the midst of death there's life!” By him saying “Can't you see the new truth we've made,” means that he knows that on his and Crispin's journey, they have proved that this is true. In this last point, the book doesn't outright state the phrase, but it does describe how Crispin lived by it. After Bear gets captured, Crispin does some thinking. The quote from the book is: How odd, I thought: it had taken my mother’s death, Father Quinel’s murder, and the desire of others to kill me to claim a life of my own. This is the example of When one door closes, another door opens. Crispin went through a lot of tough times thinking there was no good in it, but eventually he “claimed a life of his own.” This is the second door. Like all books, Crispin and the Cross of Lead probably has more than one theme. But one of them that the author wants the reader to see very plainly is In the midst of death, there is...
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...Name: Tutor: Course: Date: The Sea-Wolf In the year 1893, a man by the name Humphrey Van Weyden sets off on a journey on a ferry called the Martinez. Humphrey’s is later nicknamed Hump. Hump’s journey took a negative turn, and the Martinez gets involved in a collision. The ferry is set off course and is shipwrecked in the Bay of San Francisco. Hump then gets cast into the ocean. He is swept about by the sea waves almost to the point of drowning. A seal hunter called the ghost passes by, reaches to his rescue, and saves him from drowning. While on the ghost, Hump later becomes conscious and recovers from the ordeal. Upon gaining consciousness, he realizes that his body is being roughly handled by a sailor. The cook on board called Thomas Mugridge and the other sailor by the name Mr. Johnson have revived him. They explain to him that they got him out of the waters and took him onboard. Hump changes his soaked clothes with rugged woolen clothes that belong to Mugridge. He then learns that the ships name is the ghost and that it is headed for Japan. He received the nickname Hump, on the ghost. Hump seeks to be returned on land. He, therefore, approaches Larsen and requests him to be returned to shore but the captain denies his request. After some time, Hump informs them of the boat in San Francisco. He offers to pay them if they agree to return him to the shore. Larsen dismisses his plea stating that he is a drunken sailor. Captain Larsen appoints a sailor by the name...
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..."Buck, a huge, four-year-old half-Saint Bernard and half-Scottish shepherd dog, is living a life of civilized ease in California's Santa Clara Valley in the home of Judge Miller. It seems to be the best of all possible worlds, for Buck is the most prized animal that the Judge owns. Around this time, however, gold is discovered in the great North, and large dogs suddenly become tremendously valuable because these types of dogs are needed to haul the heavy sleds through the deep snow fields. Tragically, for Buck, one of the Judge's servants (an addictive gambler) steals Buck and sells him to a ring of thieves who are making a great deal of money by buying and selling dogs to northern traders. Buck's spirit, however, does not adapt as easily as do some of the other docile big dogs. Buck cannot tolerate being tied up and beaten; he fights against his cruel new master, but all of his efforts to escape are futile. Thus, Buck learns the new concept of ""master,"" even though he learns it reluctantly: a man with a club is a master and must, at all costs, be obeyed. After days of travel on both train and boat, Buck discovers that he is in the primitive North, and there he rapidly learns to conform to the laws of the primitive new world. For example, he encounters such problems as how to work as a member of a dog team pulling a sled, how to burrow into a hole in the snow in which to sleep, how to survive perpetual hunger pains, and how to rely on his native intelligence and his animal...
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...expressed through works of short story "Love of Life"by Jack London - a major authors of modern literature. Through the research process, we not only found a deep insight of life of Jack lonlon toward life and people, but also discovered the harsh struggle, to find the intense human value Hidden deep within the noble work. I. Introduction 1.1. Reason for study With this work , we have the opportunity to explore the short story genre with detailed castings, large capacity and style have many implications, giving depth of work that hard to say. Not everyone has experienced the brink of life and death so this research is the logical choice 1.2. Purpose and aim of study The purpose of this research was to understand profoundly the meaning of life , Survival battle between man and wolf in the love life is intense, but it appears much simpler than the struggle that find out yourself, just how to get rid of social ties Unfortunately, that was re-created by human. The truth value of the first affordable life is the truth value of each individual life? Go find it, as we seek answers to these questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Where will we go ? to uncover the nature world around him, and discovered a conflict can not be overcome, a conflict can not be explained by the management and victory his philosophical theories. Death is the only salvation. There is even a despicable other world to this? Jack London has made me pessimistic, lost faith in that society...
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...The Vanishing Love -----Book report of Martin Eden * The Introduction of Marin Eden Martin Eden, semiautobiographical novel by Jack London, published in 1909. The title character, Martin Eden, becomes a writer, hoping to acquire the respectability sought by his society-girl sweetheart, Ruth Morse. She spurns him, however, when his writing is rejected by several magazines and when he is falsely accused of being a socialist. Interestingly, Ruth tries to win him back after he achieves fame, but Eden realizes her love for him but not for the fame and fortune is false. Financially successful and robbed of connection to his own class, aware that his quest for bourgeois respectability was hollow, and devastated by the suicide of his mentor, Eden travels to the South Seas, where he jumps from the ship and drowns. So, the whole story is ended up with Martin’s suicide. The reason why I said that Martin Eden is another Jack London, or the book is a semiautobiographical novel, is that when Jack London wrote Martin Eden at age 33, he had already achieved international acclaim with The Call of the Wild, The Sea-Wolf and White Fang. However, London quickly became disillusioned with his fame and set sail through the South Pacific on a self-designed ketch called the Snark. On the grueling two-year voyage—as he struggled with tiredness and bowel diseases—he wrote Martin Eden, filling its pages with his frustrations, adolescent gang fights and struggles for artistic recognition. The character...
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...American Author Jack London Many authors have specific distinctions in the way they write. They add their own tones and voice to give character and personality to their style of writing. Jack London is among these authors but in his own sense different. Jack London is notorious for focusing his stories on the wild outdoors of the north. In two of London’s most famous books, Call of the WIld and White Fang, he writes about the Klondike Gold Rush. The main characters in both novels are dogs. One learning to survive in the wilderness and one learning to adapt to domestication. This theme supports London’s notorious writing style about the wild. His choice to write about such events in these area and time specific settings can be traced to his childhood growing up in the middle of the Yukon Gold Rush himself. Jack like any author uses his prior experiences as a platform for his writing. What I think makes London’s tone and voice in writing these books so fascinating and successful is the detail in which he writes to convey his setting to the reader. He so accurately describes the feel of the air and the silence of the day along with the beauty of the sky to bring and mental image to anyone’s mind. This keeps the reader intrigued and interested along with a clear vision of an American habitat. This vision of Northern American tundra is crucial to the draw of the novels and short stories London writes because it does convey American culture and and the living conditions...
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...and suspense novel written by Jack London. I was tempted to rush the book as it was very interesting. I couldn’t stop turning the page. In White Fang, Henry, a young adult, and Bill, Henry’s friend, are out in the wild of the north. They have only six sled dogs and 3 bullets in a gun. They are very desperate because they are being followed by a pack of voracious wolves. One night, they notice that there are seven dogs to feed. Then the next day there are only five. They become doubtful and stay up late at night as they notice a she-wolf is actually luring their dogs away. Bill uses a bullet to try to shoot the she-wolf but he misses and gets eaten himself. Henry is running from wolves one night when a group of men travelling nearby save him. In the second half of the book, the story changes to the she-wolfs point of view. She gives birth to a pup named “White Fang.” I believe that the author created too many characters and too many details which weren’t important at all. In my opinion, Henry and Bill were superfluous. I think the most significant part of this novel was when White Fang was born because that is when the “main story” started. The author was able to hold my interest throughout this novel because he had some very thriller details which were “nail biting” such as when Bill was eaten or when Beauty Smith received White Fang and abused him. Overall, I think this book was a “spine-chiller.” It had excess detail, but I think Jack London made up for that by writing such...
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...what he did. Even though Chris was somewhat of a free spirit he had a deep sense of friendship and he cherished the friends that he meet. Chris’s intention to go into the wild was not only a way to prove himself but it was a test to his belief that all of his traveling was a way of finding who he was, and to find out if he could use his skills that he had learned. the books that he read certainly led to him thinking that he could live in the Alaskan wilderness. Chris was a well read person and his favorite books where that of writer jack London. Jack London wrote about life and surviving in the alaskan frontier with books like call of the wild or to build a fire. Many people have suspensions of why chris went into the wild, but a lot of evidence point to that he was influenced by his personal belief that he had to be the best in everything. a quote from the book into the wild that proves this is “ Chris had so much natural talent”(pg111) this quote was said by his father that chris was do his best to learn...
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...words similarities and differences- in Jack London’s “To Build A Fire” and Richard Connell’s, “The Most Dangerous Game”. The comparisons will be constructed of the settings, characters, and conflict. First topic to be compared is conflict. The two stories share two conflicts, a struggle for survival. In Jack London’s “To Build A Fire” the main character, not named, thinks in his head, “Without doubt he would lose some fingers and toes and some of his face…” (London 703). In the same manner, the main character, named Rainsford, kills a dog and the “bad guy” says to him “… I’ll see what you can do against my whole pack” (Connell 28). However, the two stories differ in what they struggle against. In “To Build A Fire” the conflict is person versus nature. For example the guy builds a fire and from the spruce tree falls some snow and puts out the fire; to quote “He should not have built the fire under the spruce tree” (London 700). Meanwhile, in “The Most Dangerous Game” the conflict is person versus person which is Rainsford being hunted down by General Zaroff-the “bad guy”- in the middle of a baron island. To quote from General Zaroff “Your strength and stamina against mine” (Connell 24). Secondly, literary item number two is setting. In both stories the setting is set in isolated places. Like in “To Build A Fire” its set in the Yukon in the middle of winter. To validate that “The Yukon lay a mile wide and hidden under three feet of ice” (London 694). Also in “The Most Dangerous...
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...to the double lives that they live to get away from the people whom they claim to love. Mr. Worthing created a younger brother “Earnest” in order to escape to London and Mr. Moncrieff created “Bunburying” to escape his boring Aunt’s family dinners. The two speak as if they aren’t truly connected with the world around them; valuing personal entertainment over loved ones while portraying to the world that they are honest, faithful men. Quote- “You have invented a very useful younger brother called Ernest, in order that you may be able to come up to town as often as you like. I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose. Bunbury is perfectly invaluable. If it wasn’t for Bunbury’s extraordinary bad health, for instance, I wouldn’t be able to dine with you at Willis’s to-night, for I have been really engaged to Aunt Augusta for more than a week.” Middle – Action Oriented (Ex)- The beginning of the play displayed to the audience hypocrisy that made the readers dislike the two bachelors. Whereas Act II gives the reader some much needed comic-relief as Algernon sneakily infiltrates into John’s life as his made-up brother Earnest. The plot is thickening as the lies begin to catch up and directly screw up the deceptions that Jack had weaved into his unknowing friends. Algernon, being a devious genius takes the identity of Earnest with ease after being told everything about him from John...
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