Jack London Survival

During the late 1800s finding gold became a quick way to get wealth quickly. Many young men took the trip up to Alaska in order to find it. This was a misleading journey, as many of the men didn’t know what they were getting into. Jack London is a well-known author who based a couple of his stories in the Yukon near Alaska. The main theme in both stories is man’s struggle for survival. In “Love of Life” and “To Build a Fire”, both men are lost in the Yukon wilderness. London’s style is a steraight-forward; he describes the men’s circumstances in lifelike detail. The vividness of these details sets London apart from other authors in this time period.

Jack London’s life was more like one of his stories than reality. He was born in San Francisco in 1876. In his early life his family was in poverty, London had to drop out of school at a young age to support his family. Considering the amount of time spent
In this story, two men are traveling through the Yukon carrying sacks of gold form their mining. The man gets injured, but Billie, ignores his partner and keeps moving on without him. The man's injures his ankle. This will cause him to get rid of some weight. In an ironic turn of events he needs to get rid of some of the gold, which brought him out here in the frost place. Eventually he needs food in order to survive, he tries to hunt for many creatures deemed unfit for society like worms in the dirt or minnows in small ponds. He turns his back on society in order to survive. To prove his whole transformation, London portrays the man killing a sick wolf by biting its neck. The man is unwilling to give up unlike the main character of “To Build a Fire”. He is discovered by a group of scientists who nurse him back to life. But when he reverts back into society he becomes somewhat of an outcast. He hides food and becomes extremely paranoid about certain aspects of civilized