London A Critical Analysis
Jack London was admired by many and thought only to live his life to the fullest, by whatever means necessary. He was born in San Francisco, in 1876. He was deserted by his father, "Professor" William Henry Chaney, an itinerant astrologer, and raised in Oakland by his mother Flora Wellman, a music teacher and spiritualist. London's stepfather John London, whose surname he took, was a failed storekeeper. As a boy poverty struck the London family. At the age of ten he constantly read, and borrowed books from the Oakland Public Library. Jack left school at the age of 14 and began work as a seaman, rode in freight trains, and adopted socialistic views. In 1894 he was arrested in Niagara Falls and jailed for vagrancy. These years made him determined to raise himself out of poverty but they also gave later material for such works as The Sea-Wolf (1904), which was partly based on his horrific experiences as a sailor in the Pacific Ocean. The Road (1907), a collection of short stories, inspired later writers like John Steinbeck and Jack Kerouac. London had required himself to write a thousand words a day, and he did not give up even during his travels and drinking periods. London's first novel, The Son of The Wolf, appeared in 1900. In
The concepts are in the novels but only after looking for them. After hardships they ended the journey in Australia. Most of his books are based on events that happened to him. The main novels, the ones he is most known for, are the ones that came at a hard time or under pressure. London had purchased in 1910 a large tract of land near Glen Ellen in Sonoma County, and devoted his energy and money improving and enlarging his Beauty Ranch. London believed in the superiority of his own race "Anglo-Saxon and Teutonic races, represented for London, the superior" (Auerbach 136). London traveled to Korea as a correspondent in 1904 for Hearst's newspapers to cover the war between Russia and Japan (1904-05). In 1907 London and Charmian started aboard the Snark, the author's elf-designed ketch, a sailing trip around the world. By 1904 Jack London was the author of 10 books. Jack has a major novel for almost every major event in his life that ties in with other ideas like: Darwinism, Nietzsche's "superman", socialism, and racism. There are many examples of socialism and racism in London's books. Jack was ahead of his time in many, if not all, of his writings. with strength and desire to out swine the swine"(Barltrop 45). Originally he set out for South Africa to report the Boer War.
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