By: Kayleigh Turvin JACK LONDON’S LITERATURE
Nov 30, 2014
By: Kayleigh Turvin
JACK LONDON’S LITERATURE
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF JACK LONDON’S LIFE
• born on January 12, 1876 in San Francisco
• grew up in poverty
• mother was Flora Wellman
• married Elizabeth Maddern on April 7
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF JACK LONDON’S LIFE CONT.
• first child Joan and second child Becky
• went to Japan because he wanted to be a sailor
• survived emotional rejection and poverty
• Jack died January 22, 1916 at the age of 40
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF JACK LONDON’S LIFE CONT.
• graduated from grammar school
• used reading and writing to earn a living
• wrote many books and he became a very famous author
JACK LONDON’S LITERATURE
• “The Call of the Wild”
• “The Game”
• “The Iron Heel”
• “The Sea-Wolf”
• “The Son of the Wolf”
• “White Fang”
“THE SON OF THE WOLF”
• His first book
• was a collection of London’s “Klondike Tales”
• The Klondike gold rush of 1897 was the material for his work to survive
“THE CALL OF THE WILD”
• Was written in 1903
• This was a story about a dog
• The major conflict was that Buck struggled against his masters and he developed from a tamed dog to a wild beast
• The rising action was buck’s battle with Spitz
“THE CALL OF THE WILD” CONT.
• The climax is that his owner saved him from someone’s cruelty
• And the falling action is his owner death
• was a sad and romantic novel
• One of the best novel’s London wrote
“THE IRON HEEL”• was published in 1908 by Macmillan
• This novel was about two people falling in love
• It told about our country and how people live
• This novel was a first person narrative of a woman protagonist written by a man
“WHITE FANG”
• Was written in 1906
• It took place in Canada
• about a wild wolf dog’s journey and how they were on dog sled teams
• In the novel there was a wolf that had puppies
“WHITE FANG” CONT.
• all but one died from hunger
• That one dog was sold to a dog fighter
• was a sad novel
• In 1991 Disney made a film of the story
CRITICS ABOUT HIS WRITING
• Some people had conflict and issues with his writing.
• Some people loved his writing and never wanted him to stop.
• Many people always knew London for his Alaskan novels
• Some liked none of his work.
CRITICS ABOUT HIS WRITING CONT.
• He had to stay strong and back up his work even if he ran into someone that did not like it.
• He was always a kind person to everyone even if people had problems with him.
• People never thought that his novel “The Iron Heel” would be a good novel because he had never written anything like that in the history of his career.
EXAMPLES OF HIS WORK
WORK CITED• Baghban, M. (1990). "The making of two readers: Agatha Christie and Jack London." Reading Teacher. 44.1.
• Cantor, M. (1997) "Jack London." American Historical Review. 90.3.
• Sandberg, C. (1976) "Jack London: A Common Man." Twentieth Century Literary Criticism. 2.4.
• Smith, J. (1978) "Is Jack London a Capitalist." Jack London Journal. 19.
• Tavernier-Courbin, Jacqueline. (1983) "Jack London's Women." Journal of American History. 90.
Jack London’s Literature:
• “The Call of the Wild”
• “The Game”
• “The Iron Heel”
• “The Sea-Wolf”
• “The Son of the Wolf”
• “White Fang”