Jack London

At the beginning of "All Gold Canyon," Jack London spends a long time painting a beautiful picture of a California mountain canyon in the springtime, which is unquestionably the time of year in...

It seems reasonable to say that the conflict is best described as one with the forces of nature. Indeed man versus nature is a common theme throughout Jack London's work, especially in his short...

The famous short story "The Law of Life" by Jack London tells of an old chief who is weak and blind. Because he cannot keep up with the others, he is being abandoned by his tribe. Although he has a...

In the short story "War" by Jack London, the author does not specify the location of the action or even the historic war in which the action takes place. London creates this vagueness deliberately...

I would agree with you that the theme of this story is race and the way that race is constructed and perceived by society. (There is, I think, also an element of commentary on attitudes towards...

The main problem with applying the concepts of Naturalism to the reading of London's short story "The Law of Life" is that the mere player in the world controlled by natural forces is a man who, to...

There are only two characters in the story "All Gold Canyon" by Jack London, both of whom are anonymous miners. The protagonist is the first of the miners we encounter. He is sometimes referred to...

This use of figurative language can be seen in a few ways. One would be through the use of personification, assigning human qualities to a non- human entity. When "fate asks too much" from the...

Comparing these two pieces makes a lot of sense, as they are both written by Jack London. My general recommendation when comparing any pieces of literature is to start looking for similarities...

Jack London's story "To Build a Fire" is an excellent example of naturalism, and it exhibits most of the characteristics of that literary trend. Let's examine the characteristics of naturalism...

"He Never Tried Again" is an unpublished poem by Jack London, collected in several modern anthologies as well as online. "SOAPSTone" is a method of reading and analyzing prose and poetry using...

The difficulty with third person points-of-view is that the two types of third person narration can be confused. Whilst one major narrative style is the use of the omniscient third person narrator,...

Jack London's Burning Daylight was his most popular novel during his lifetime and was published in 1910. London himself died in 1916. Under copyright law in most places in the world, a book goes...

Little information seems to be available about Jack London’s poem “He Never Tried Again.” Until recently the poem was unpublished, and the most recent editor of London’s poetry, Dan Wichlan, has...

The sanitation of China means the elimination of the Chinese population. Many people believe that "The Unparalleled Invasion" shows that Jack London was in favor of genocide. I find that hard to...