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//**[|Literature and Its Times: Profiles of 300 Notable Literary Works and the Historical Events that Influenced Them]**//. Joyce Moss and George Wilson. Vol. 3: //Growth of Empires to the Great Depression (1890-1930s)//. Detroit: Gale, 1997. p51-56.
 * __Author:__** Jack London
 * __80- notes:__**

Kim-Brown, Caroline. "Through the Lens of Jack London." //Humanities (National Endowment for the Humanities) Vol. 27, No. 2//. March/April 2006: 10-14. //SIRS Renaissance.// Web. 02 Dec 2010. Geller, Conrad. "The way a wolf sees things: in telling the story of his famous wolf-dog, Jack London presented point of view with great skill. (Author's Craft)." //Writing!// Jan. 2002: 15+. //Student Edition//. Web. 2 Dec. 2010. **-**
 * book/internet**
 * 1) Based story's on his adventures- helping to clarify his work
 * 2) His works helped show "corruption" of society"
 * 3) His pictures (some on earthquake destruction) helped portray actual events- letting people see how things really are in the world, this made people awed
 * 4) His stories help truthfully show the "wild"-by using the outdoors as his setting
 * 5) His work is highly accepted- helping impact people more, it was accepted due to highly relating to events at the time
 * 6) Reporting on his work helped with making it less charitable
 * 7) 1870s near the gold rush period his works where highly relative due to the amount of sled dog drivers emerging
 * 8) spent much of his time ether tramping or writing helping add a sense of courage to people and his writing
 * 9) Having lived in both he biased neither (call of the wild Vs. white fang)
 * 10) Believed in keeping a sense of individualism in his work (more so in economic depression)
 * 11) Studied philosophy to explain 'chain effects' in economy
 * 12) Bucks belief system change mirrored Jacks inner struggle at the time of the war-loyalty shifts
 * 13) Buck realizes that you have to ignore your own needs and try to work as a small part of a whole-
 * 14) supporting his new ideas in writing of how capitalism (government and factory) should be shifted to the working class- lead to people supporting the idea more
 * 15) this view was reflected through bucks change and in how sometimes it means more to care about what you have done apposed to who you where (call of the wild)
 * 16) "believed that superior individuals could bring about the redemption of workers by initiating socialism, thus changing the environment which had produced inferiority” (Johnston, p. 49).
 * 17) Viewed as having "scope vitality and fullness" by critics
 * 18) Was in the forefront of books at the time- spanning popularity
 * 19) His characters based on himself helped let people more easily identify with it.a
 * 20) Having his characters in both working class and poverty let people see both sides of the spectrum they have only seen one side of he proved both had pros and cons-this created a feeling of unity in both extreme
 * Watson, Bruce. "Jack London Followed His Muse into the Wild."** //**Smithsonian**//**. Feb. 1998: 104-113.** //**SIRS Renaissance.**// **Web. 01 Dec 2010.** -book


 * 1) Caused people to question their place in society and government in light of individuality- this made people happy because they could find who they where
 * 2) In his reportage writing in Korea he became viewed as a hero because he had to sneak into the battle field- or at least near it
 * 3) He got people to want to explore outside their surroundings- by keeping alive the spirit of adventure
 * 4) He inspired people to try to find what worked for them, not to just do the 'sociably accepted' or 'right' thing but the thing that made them happy
 * 5) His works made people unhappy due to depression and political corruption want to live, and have something to live for
 * 6) In the beginning his works being new- they where all scorned, but then rising to fame this inspired people to want to try even when they kept failing
 * 7) His writing and stories made people view the wilderness as something exciting- not just as at the time (Roosevelt) made it seem like a place of "relaxation"
 * 8) His work ethic in writing- caused people to see their work effort not as a failure but a learning experience
 * 9) Tails of the high seas and Alaskan gold searching helped people perspective natures good and bad
 * 10) When he wrote of life in the city apposed to the wild people could see the perspective of that to.
 * 11) His life as a hobo he went to England writing 'people of the abyss' - this made people enraged at the governments negligence and thankful for their life position
 * 12) His fast writing pace and his refusal to give himself a break worried people- showing the bad in modern literature and society
 * 13) He made people vivify him when his legendary reporting got him arrested in Japan
 * 14) His works let people accept themselves for who they are- and let themselves like that.
 * 15) Got people to stand up for themselves and their rights in government by helping hold rally's in colleges
 * 16) "To build a fire" telling of a man freezing to death, helped people realize even though 'the wild' has good parts- you have to be careful and plan ahead
 * 17) His reckless living style got people to want to try new things
 * 18) But his reckless living style also got him into debt but also gave him freedom. Many thought his works useless because he didn't have many material possessions and was in debt but it gave others the chance to redefine what made them happy and what was good for them
 * 19) Critics hated him and he hated them- this was known by people, it got them to careless about what the 'higher up' or 'people in charge' thought
 * 20) the situation^ (above) told people that governments opinion didn't matter because his works where still popular and that peoples opinions matter

Barleycorn, John. __Novels and social writings__. Literary classics, 1995-2007.


 * 1) All his works both short and long story, in total showed the many classes of people and the ways they lived- this let people accept their place as a individual but at the same time know there where other ways they could change their life
 * 2) "the ominous perspective of the alliance between finance capitalism and labor aristocracy."-quote
 * 3) Justified that living in a gang made modern suburbia inevitable, letting people both for and against the movement understand its mechanics
 * 4) Most of his writing in newspapers telling about shady dealings where omitted- proving even with all his works government still had to keep masses in order
 * 5) His work talked about the men beasts are and the beasts- beasts are and how both are instinctual and justifiable- this made people question themselves and their decisions life stature and the meaning of it

""To build a fire by Jack London"." __Youth Magazine__ 1902. 2. __Enotes__. 06Dec.2010 .
 * 1) "to build a fire' by some was viewed as just a cautionary tale**- until later re-wrote it was told to be a 'masterpiece'**

Buckland, Roscoe. __The critical response to Jack London__. Westport: Greenwood press, 1995.
 * 1) He viewed woman as equals- not as lesser people. This was odd at the time- but it went unnoticed.
 * 2) He tried to find some fundamental meanings about men and nature. Some people agreed that he did others didn't.
 * 3) Work impacted pop culture nationally and over seas.
 * 4) Some viewed his highly auctioned work as horror, making it more popular.
 * 5) Others viewed it as tragedy- also rising it popularity
 * 6) Some thought it showed a view as man being punished for progressing past nature
 * 7) Fewer thought the animals where archetypes- out witting and scheming to hurt the men
 * 8) Some think that the amount of light in the setting affected the story's view.
 * 9) Symbols played a large part in how you saw the final product/message.
 * 10) Whiteness is another symbol that could be persisted as one thing or another.
 * 11) The irony in the work helped make the theme stand out.
 * 12) It's vividness helped people understand the characters motives, and the plot.
 * 13) Death in his work is sometimes viewed as a lack of his (writer) imagination
 * 14) Others viewed the death as the characters lack of reasoning and stupidity/ unpreparedness
 * 15) Work showed that by using reasoning instead of intuition has weakened instinct
 * 16) Rebirth is viewed as realizing mistakes
 * 17) Some think characters deaths where partially due to loneliness
 * 18) In the story to 'build a fire' as with many of his story's it could be viewed as man vs. man, man. vs. nature and man vs. himself
 * 19) But his work could also be man vs. society because modern life so ill equipped him for any life outside socialism
 * 20) In the same note his books also showed how that ill equipments is a good thing due to reducing loneliness and increasing comfort both the lacking character in other books fell ill w/o and died.

Walker, Dale. "Jack London: The Stories." __dito__. 1997. Jack London.net. The world of Jack London, 06Dec.2010 .
 * 1) Wrote easier and much better in his short stories- novels where 'longhand awkward' so his short works received better reviews even if there where less of them
 * 2) Some of his work was viewed as repetitious- due to his passages
 * 3) Some of his work had dull characters- because they didn't relate to himself personally
 * 4) At one time a novel was 'preachy'- and received ill reviews
 * 5) well worded works where overwrote and to long- making them boring
 * 6) His stories and novels where better worded and more well felt
 * 7) Some viewed his longer works as "more lengthy than strength"
 * 8) Most agree his works ranged from Nice to Amazing
 * 9) Wrote longer stories for more money, the work was not as good but it was still ok
 * 10) His works showed who his heroes where- 'vagabonds' adventure seekers. People liked the idea of adventure he entrusted.
 * 11) He viewed a life full of money as 'colorless' making people ask "is normal life really living or just being"
 * 12) Early works impacted his novel skills because of 'word count' impacting ^ even though most works where well received overall
 * 13) His reporting hurt his writing but helped his job offers-people felt neutral about this because at least them there would be more of Jack London’s works in print to read
 * 14) Know widely and mostly as a 'romantic'- witch was part of why people go charmed into his work
 * 15) Most people could 'since' the character or relate to them because the author could also
 * 16) Metaphors and similes used in his work where so impressive and waling publishers and papers couldn't help but be impressed as well as public
 * 17) Lots of his works are viewed as mature tales because of their themes, witch is part of why has audience was adults and thinkers.
 * 18) Short stories told allot about peoples feelings and inner workings of people and their reactions to society themselves and life in general.
 * 19) Early works- (fictional) focused on suicide and murder mystery- intriguing people