Summary Of Jack London's 'The Apostate'

Through a Marxist’s eyes, Death of a Salesman represents the struggle of middle-class families in a capitalistic world. From an early age, kids are taught to do well in school, be involved with sports and activities, and to go on to college; all in hopes of achieving the American Dream. This dream of obtaining success through hard work leads many into the

The Black Wall Street, Harlem Renaissance, Great Migration, and Great Depression are all period that came in mind, while reading this novel. To begin, the novel presented aspects of The Great Depression and Great Migration because it represented African American people escaping from the poverty, segregation, racism, violence, and lack of job opportunities they were exposed to in the South by migrating to the North. The novel itself represents The Harlem Renaissance because it was written when importance of literature during the time period for the African American people and the Black experience was growing. To continue, the Brothers throughout the novel were reminded of their class and race, which made them constantly aware of who they were and where they came from. This can be related to modern day Black men who experience poverty because they ar

William Attaway’s novel, Blood on the Forge, displays a family torn apart as a product of systematic exploitation. In the compelling narrative, the Moss brothers, Big Mat, Chinatown, and Melody, migrate to the north in motivation of Big Mat committing the murder of his riding boss. As they begin to adjust, their perception of the north’s assumed and rumored opportunities quickly conforms to the reality of what is actually offered. Through plot lines of the very act of migrating, acclimating to regenerated labor and norms, and, finally, the dissolution of the brothers’ identities and close family connection, it is observed that their exodus to the north is just as empty of benefits as the south. Attaway accomplishes depicting an accurate account of the contrasting exploitation that occurred in both the north and the south by portraying the Moss brothers’ demise as a result of their migration from a systematic, rural setting to an industrial, diminishing, and, ultimately, unfamiliar environment along with how the two regions parallel in similarities concerning economical and social consequences, permanently affecting the brothers altogether mentally and physically. Where there was great potential for a rebirth of opportunity and success, the result was a contrasting reality of misery and permanent damage.

As the many families camp together, proximity combined with necessity breaks down barriers of relation, and miniature societies form with there own unwritten rules and expectations. It is in one of these "Hoovervilles" that the Joads have a wicked confrontation with a vigilant police officer. A woman is shot, Tom and Floyd Knowles nearly become fugitives, and Jim Casey is arrested and thus removed from both the family and society. This sacrificing of self for the good of the group strengthens the bonds between the migrants in the Hooverville, and Casey's experience with fellow inmates in prison gives him an important realization about the power of organized protest. Incidentally, these terrible losses at the Hooverville drive the Joads in fear to what will turn out to be a far better place, and the knowledge that there are others in the same situation who will help lends unifying strength to the family and other migrants.

The plot structure not only forces people to reevaluate their views on capitalism, the American Dream, and opportunity itself, but furthermore advocates social change. The book implicitly suggests communist ideals through the characters of Tom and Casey. Casey, in his questioning of Christian dogma, begins to reevaluate equality, in the terminology of what is holy.

Buck, a dog that went from a fast wagging tail to a savage, prodromal, wild beast. He was a dog that ran freely on his land, ruling everyone and everything. Then he was taken. He was brought to the Yukon Valley and kept there. For a while, he fought the primal instincts bubbling up inside of him, trying to hold onto his last memories of home. Then he just let go and grasped the strong pull of the wild. The poem relates to Buck’s journey most when it shows how the wild is pulling and chafing at Buck’s domestication. “Chafing at custom's chain” (London 1) in this book is explaining the part where Buck is fighting to keep the domestic urge inside him alive. This poem also shows relation to Buck travels before his change. It infers that when he is living with the Judge’s his real self, his primal self, is sleeping. This poem reflects on Buck's journey to the Yukon showing when his sleeping primal self, it also shows fighting his instincts, and his transformation into the wilderness.

My author was Jack London. Jack London is known for his books that have the constant theme of survival. His books “Sea Wolf” and “White Fang” both use the theme of survival but they use it very differently . In “Sea Wolf” London tells the story of Humphrey Van Weyden an upper class citizen whose boat crashed and he was rescued by a passing seal hunting ship, the ghost, run by captain Larsen. (page 10.)

Robinson describes some social and moral issues throughout this dark time as people struggle to keep their image and class in society. In line 11 Robinson demonstrates the distinction between the social classes, while the wealthy people seem to be enjoying themselves and unbothered by the rest of less fortunate suffering through hard times, ”Balls, where simp’ring misses languish; Hospitals, and groans of anguish.” (11) During this time everything was changing along with the absence of morals from individuals. It seemed they no longer cared about refinery or remaining polished but had turned corrupt in a sense that they preferred deviance and honesty shown in line 21 , “Taste and talents quite deserted; all the laws of

Many people say that man’s best friend is the dog. The dog is the domesticated version of its wild ancestor - the wolf. Jack London enjoyed writing about wolves and nature, and two of his more famous novels - White Fang and The Call of the Wild - involve these howling carnivores. Jack London shows the lives of wolves and their instinct and will to survive in White Fang and The Call of the Wild; underlying all of this literal meaning though is his figurative interpretation toward life and survival.

Jack London was born John Griffith Chaney on January 12, 1876, in San Francisco, California. After he was done working he become a author, and was known for writing, “The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Martin Eden”. Jack London died on November 22, 1916 by dysentery.

The reason that I chose this novel to read for this assignment came as the result of many different reasons. These reasons included the shocking amount of relevance and allusions to it in modern literature and times. For example this novel shows the economic collapse of a civilization that has stood on the soldiers of the rich and powerful for support for their own incompetence and misery. This novel provides a new viewpoint to view the economic collapses of modern times, a view from the businessman's point of view, of how a few honest people were weighed down with the weight of the world because the common people did not have the intelligence to hold it or had decided that they just didn't what it

BOTH JACK LONDON'S intentions and his accomplishments in The Call of the Wild account for the artistic success of the book. For the story which London intended to write—about a dog who merely reverts to the wild—developed into a full, 32,000 word novel. And the simplicity intended in the implicit atavism in the dog's reversion also became a more complex discussion than London apparently bargained for. But a fortuitous combination of events led London to produce the most popular and the best piece of fiction he ever wrote. Thus while he gauged his audience accurately in writing a popular account of Darwinian literature, at the same time the novel gave him

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.’’ said Jack London. Although Jack london did not have a good hand he still went on to becoming a famous American author. Jack London’s early life was hard he would struggle with his mother and his father was never there. Jack still even against the odds did the best he can in his writing. After taking a look at the life and work of Jack london, it is apparent that this writer deserves recognition as a profound American author.

“Adventures’ Call,” by Jan Burns states,” Though Jack London died at age 40, his adventures live on through his vibrant and realistic writing.” It took lots of motivation for Jack to become a successful writer. Jack London became a successful writer with the encouragement from his mom and his experiences in the Klondike war. According to the text, the encouragement of Jack’s mom helped him become a writer.

I have recently read the Texas Lonestar book, Proxy, written by Alex London, which is about the life of the proxy, Syd, his patron, Knox, and his other friends. Proxy is about a rapidly advancing world where debts must be repaid, but not in the way that we would normally think of. Patrons, who are the children of the rich, have own a proxy, who were the poor children, busy struggling for survival in the lower levels of the city. If a patron caused some sort of trouble, the proxy received the punishment instead of the patron, which should only be a temporary pain for proxies. However, Knox's rash actions result in brutal and harsh punishment for Syd. Everything is normal until Knox makes a serious mistake that sends both Syd and Knox into a