2. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF JACK
LONDON’S LIFE
• born on January 12, 1876 in San
Francisco
• grew up in poverty
• mother was Flora Wellman
• married Elizabeth Maddern on April 7
3. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF JACK
LONDON’S LIFE CONT.
• first child Joan and second child Becky
• went to Japan because he wanted to be a
sailor
• survived emotional rejection and poverty
• Jack died January 22, 1916 at the age of
40
4. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF JACK
LONDON’S LIFE CONT.
• graduated from grammar school
• used reading and writing to earn a living
• wrote many books and he became a very
famous author
5. JACK LONDON’S LITERATURE
• “The Call of the Wild”
• “The Game”
• “The Iron Heel”
• “The Sea-Wolf”
• “The Son of the Wolf”
• “White Fang”
6. “THE SON OF THE WOLF”
• His first book
• was a collection of London’s
“Klondike Tales”
• The Klondike gold rush of 1897
was the material for his work to
survive
7. “THE CALL OF THE WILD”
• Was written in 1903
• This was a story about a dog
• The major conflict was that Buck struggled
against his masters and he developed from a
tamed dog to a wild beast
• The rising action was buck’s battle with
Spitz
8. “THE CALL OF THE WILD” CONT.
• The climax is that his owner saved him
from someone’s cruelty
• And the falling action is his owner
death
• was a sad and romantic novel
• One of the best novel’s London wrote
9. “THE IRON HEEL”
• was published in 1908 by Macmillan
• This novel was about two people falling in
love
• It told about our country and how people
live
• This novel was a first person narrative of a
woman protagonist written by a man
10. “WHITE FANG”
• Was written in 1906
• It took place in Canada
• about a wild wolf dog’s journey and
how they were on dog sled teams
• In the novel there was a wolf that had
puppies
11. “WHITE FANG” CONT.
• all but one died from hunger
• That one dog was sold to a dog
fighter
• was a sad novel
• In 1991 Disney made a film of the
story
12. CRITICS ABOUT HIS WRITING
• Some people had conflict and issues with
his writing.
• Some people loved his writing and never
wanted him to stop.
• Many people always knew London for his
Alaskan novels
• Some liked none of his work.
13. CRITICS ABOUT HIS WRITING CONT.
• He had to stay strong and back up his work even
if he ran into someone that did not like it.
• He was always a kind person to everyone even if
people had problems with him.
• People never thought that his novel “The Iron
Heel” would be a good novel because he had
never written anything like that in the history of
his career.
15. WORK CITED
• Baghban, M. (1990). "The making of two readers: Agatha Christie and Jack London."
Reading Teacher. 44.1.
• Cantor, M. (1997) "Jack London." American Historical Review. 90.3.
• Sandberg, C. (1976) "Jack London: A Common Man." Twentieth Century Literary
Criticism. 2.4.
• Smith, J. (1978) "Is Jack London a Capitalist." Jack London Journal. 19.
• Tavernier-Courbin, Jacqueline. (1983) "Jack London's Women." Journal of American
History. 90.
Jack London’s Literature:
• “The Call of the Wild”
• “The Game”
• “The Iron Heel”
• “The Sea-Wolf”
• “The Son of the Wolf”
• “White Fang”
