Jack-London—love-of-life.ppt

单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,What do you know about Jack London?,Jack London(1876-1916),Jack Londons Life,Jack London was,one of the most articulate and militant spokesmen of the working class at the turn of the century,.His rise to popularity in the early 20th century was in a way meteoric.He was born John Griffith Chaney in,San Francisco,on January 12,1876,the illegitimate,son of a self-taught man and an eccentric,（古怪的）,woman,.,He grew up in extreme poverty,as a street urchin along the water-front where he began at an early age to indulge his boundless appetite for adventure.,Before he was ten years old,he had to work before and after school and even on weekends in order to support the family,.,At the age of 13,he took a job in a cannery,and at the age of 15 he was the captain of an oyster pirate boat.,He supported himself with menial and dangerous jobs,experiencing the struggle for survival,.He lived on the fringes of society until he was seventeen.,In 1893 he became a sailor,.,For the next four years he worked his way around the world,.He learned the jungle law of nature,the survival of the strong and the death of the weak.He wandered his way across the United State,even begging his food from door to door.,Determined to get an education,he went to high school at,the age of nineteen,entered preparatory school,and then spend a semester as a special student at,the University of California,in 1896.,He had to,drop out,after a few months to make money for the family.But he,read extensively by himself,.Influenced by Marxism and Darwinism,and also by Nietzsche,（尼采）,s view of superman,London believed both in,the success of the working class,and in,the survival of the strongest,.He also learned practical knowledge in between journeys as a tramp and participation in the Klondike gold rush in 1897.,He failed to find gold,but the experience became a rich source for his literary creation later.,Literary Career,London sold his early stories to the Overland Monthly in the West and the Atlantic Monthly in the East in 1899,and,published his first collection of stories“The Son of the Wolf”in 1900,.From then on he made his living by writing,though his manuscripts were often rejected by editors,and he was sometimes without money.Yet,he forced himself to write a thousand words a day,and completed more than forty-nine volumes altogether in his life,.,In 1903 he wrote“,The Call of the Wild,”,an all-time best seller.This book made him immediately popular,and his name was soon,known all over the county,.,His Major Works,The People of the Abyss(1903),深渊中的人们,The Call of the Wild(1903),野性的呼唤,The Sea Wolf(1904),海狼,White Fang(1906),白牙,The Iron Heel(1908),铁蹄,Martin Eden(1909),马丁,.,伊登,The Valley of the Moon(1912),月谷,The Star Rover(1915),星游人,The Little Lady of the Big House(1916),大屋里的小妇人,Writing Style,Forceful,and colorful;,Subjectivity and enthusiasm,His characterizations were often stiff and his dialogue stereotyped.,Jack London is considered as“Father of American Proletarian Literature”.,Love of Life,One of the most famous short fiction,In 1906,Background,The,resource of the novel,from the,life that,northern miner,struggle,with the nature,.,In the 19th century,t,housands of people were involved in the gold rush.,In there,man and nature,man and the life struggle each other.,In 1897,only twenty one-year-old Jack London also came to the far north for gold.,Despite he did not get gold,he has obtained more precious than gold.,PLOT,A western riffleman,abandoned,by his friend o,n the way back,.H,e was alone in the vast wasteland.,Winter,is coming,he was greeted by wind,he had no food,and he had hurt his leg,his,f,ee,t in the blood.,He can only,moved,in the wilderness,which is f,ull,of,swamp,hills and streams,.,When,his body is very weak,he met a Wolf.,He found the sick,w,olf,followed,him,and licked his blood,.,At the end of the battle,he,won and he,dr,an,k the blood of the,w,olf.,Eventually,he rescued,.,Characteristics of,W,riting,The plot of the story,is legendary.,Describe in details,.,The Theme,The novel to express,the strong will for survival and love of life,t,hrough the protagonists hard survival,experience in the bad environment,.,Jack London does not give the protagonist,a,name,he is a fragile and tenacious struggler.,The,intent,that,Jack London describe th,is,miracle of life is not to create a,hero,but,to,express,the,energy,that,people,break,out in desperate.,R,evelation,Please cherish life,.,Survival is instinct,of human,life is also the inherent nature,.,W,e suffer,the pain,and struggle,we also enjoy natural and,life,.,Life itself is a kind of happiness,.Everyone of us in the steep mountain climbing,for,the life also for survival.As long as life indomitable,human,will invicible!,Thats all!,Thank you!,