An analysis on jack london

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London 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 ...

... not emphasize the socialism or the racism. The concepts are in the novels but only after looking for them. The socialism is became one of his ideas based on his readings on David Starr Jordan, Herbert Spencer, and Charles Darwin, and is supported with London's statement "The community branded me a "red shirt" because I stood for municipal ownership...And far be it from me to deny that socialism is a menace" (Kershaw 233). The socialism in the novel are influenced on the idea that most of the people of that time believed in socialism and London was one of those people. White Fang is a good book based on socialism and travels through the Klondike,

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