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Jack London's Craft Move In The Story Of Keesh
Jack London used several interesting craft moves in the “The Story of Keesh.” One craft move was descriptive words. Another was tone . Finally Jack London utilized long and short sentences to develop his theme that people are too quick to judge.

Jack London made good use of descriptive words. One example of this is when he stated, “ ‘Na!Na!’ the men cried. ‘Put the child out!’ ‘Send him off to bed!’ ‘He is no man that he that he should talk to men and grey beards!’ ” This helps create the people are two quick to judge because the elders judged Keesh right away instead of listening to his speech so the elders did not get all the information and that lead the elders to false judgment and that was because the elders were too quick to judge.

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