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”