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Jack London, one of America's major writers of adventure tales, was born in California in 1876.
During his life, London worked at many jobs. His broad life experiences would becdoef fluestions : 27
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London loved to read. As a teenager, he spent many hours educating himself at the Oakland,
California, public library. He attended college at the University of California at Berkeley, but he stayed
for only six months. He thought Berkeley was "not lively enough" and wanted to do something more
exciting.
London wrote stories about working people and the hard times they had, making a living. He knew
their problems first hand. He worked as a sailor, rancher, factory employee, railroad hobo, and gold
prospector, to name just a few of his many jobs.
London grew up near the waterfront in Oakland. He loved the water. When he was fifteen years old, he
bought a small sailboat called a sloop. Later he sailed to Japan on a schooner, which is a much larger
sailing boat.
Like many people of the time, London caught the Klondike Gold Rush Fever. In 1897, he headed for
Alaska. He didn't find gold, but he discovered something even more valuable. He discovered that
people enjoyed listening to the stories he made up with his vivid imagination. London entertained the
miners with story after story. Later, using his experiences during the Gold Rush, he created many
more colourful stories.
London resolved to live a full, exciting life. He once said, “I would rather be a superb meteor, every
atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet." Each day, he pushed himself.
Once London determined that he was going to be a writer, nothing could stop him. His goal was to
write at least one thousand words every day. He refused to stop even when he was sick. In eighteen
years, the writer published fifty-one books and hundreds of articles. He was the best-selling and
highest-paid author of his day. Many people also considered him to be the best writer.
'White Fang' and The Call of the Wild' are his most famous stories and are about surviving in the
Alaskan wilderness. Readers can enjoy Jack London's energy and his talent for telling wonderful
stories each time they open one of his novels.
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Explanation:
Jack London is among the many prolific writers from the United States of America who possess great artistic works ranging from great time novels ,short stories to plays just but to mention a few. He is fondly remembered for his great novel, ‘Martin Eden’ published in 1909. In the novel he tries to express the challenges faced by young writers who try to exploit their talent and passion in an area where little opportunities present themselves. This novel has stood the test of time with its relevance evident to date. It is a favorite to many young upcoming writers thus the main aim for writing this paper is to focus on the autobiography of Jack London as ‘Martin Eden’.
Jack London’s Life
Jack London was born in the last quarter of the nineteenth century to Flora Wellman a great spiritualist and music teacher. It is believed by biographers that Jack’s father was an astrologer by the name William Chaney. The author in his great time novel ‘Martin Eden’ is reflected as a rough innumerate sailor who had a great urge to be educated in a bid to have himself fit well into the society of the literary elite. Through intensive self studying, he struggles to rise higher than his devoid conditions of being born among the working class, he does this in an attempt to book himself a coveted place among the affluent. According to the context, the protagonist does this mainly because of his relationship with one girl named Ruth Morse. The author shows it out clearly that ‘Martin Eden’ is in an intimate relationship with the girl, however the two, though in love, come from very wide social backgrounds. While the former comes from a bourgeois background, the latter hails from a working class background. It is therefore paramount that for the two to ...
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...ally anything to secure his passion and not even her love for the girl would make him shift or even think of shifting his stand, the conversation brings out the author as a very determined, resolute and down to earth person who would stop at nothing to achieve his goal, this is also brought out through first person narration the author uses this style perfectly well to echo out his perception.
Conclusion
Finally the novel is considered to be London’s autobiography this is because it is a narration of his own life by his own self in the person of Martin Eden it should therefore not be confused for a biography. Jack London successfully expresses his sentiments to the wider scope of parties interested he notes and emphatically asserts that great writers get to the brim of their career and for this to be sure, they must resort to the same spirit as him.
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