A Comparison on the Life of Buck and Jack London
A COMPARISON ON THE LIFE OF
BUCK AND JACK LONDON
A Requirement Submitted to the Faculty of Baguio City
National High School
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements in English III
by
Masedman, Moises
Migallon, Diane Kaye
January 2010
Table of Contents
Title page p.i
Table of contents p.ii
I. Introduction p.1
II. Chapter 1 p.3
III. Chapter 2 p.6
IV. Chapter 3 p.8
V. Conclusion p.10
References p.11
Introduction London was not only telling the story of just a dog who had been kidnapped and so on and so forth, yet he was telling a somewhat autobiography. He demonstrates his failures and how he survived through them and how he was able to achieve success from them, through Buck. London was putting himself into the character of Buck, Putting his own burdens and success into him. We, the researchers, would like to show the significance of Jack London’s life to his work, The call of the wild. We would also like to compare the life and/or the situations Jack London and Buck are in. Every part of the story was connected to Jack London and that is what we aim for to show and for others to understand. The importance of such project is for others, researchers or readers, to better understand the work of Jack London. It shows that his life is a big factor to his work. It gives us better understanding of why these events in the story had to happen. It can give the reader a more sufficient or a more content mind. Another reason for choosing the project was because we, the researchers, were curious of how Jack London created a story not like anything else and there we found out of the similarities of his and Buck’s life. A comparison on the life of Buck and Jack London p.2
Every success, failure, burden, Buck had to endure them because that was what Jack London had written. But Buck faced the problems not
BUCK AND JACK LONDON
A Requirement Submitted to the Faculty of Baguio City
National High School
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements in English III
by
Masedman, Moises
Migallon, Diane Kaye
January 2010
Table of Contents
Title page p.i
Table of contents p.ii
I. Introduction p.1
II. Chapter 1 p.3
III. Chapter 2 p.6
IV. Chapter 3 p.8
V. Conclusion p.10
References p.11
Introduction London was not only telling the story of just a dog who had been kidnapped and so on and so forth, yet he was telling a somewhat autobiography. He demonstrates his failures and how he survived through them and how he was able to achieve success from them, through Buck. London was putting himself into the character of Buck, Putting his own burdens and success into him. We, the researchers, would like to show the significance of Jack London’s life to his work, The call of the wild. We would also like to compare the life and/or the situations Jack London and Buck are in. Every part of the story was connected to Jack London and that is what we aim for to show and for others to understand. The importance of such project is for others, researchers or readers, to better understand the work of Jack London. It shows that his life is a big factor to his work. It gives us better understanding of why these events in the story had to happen. It can give the reader a more sufficient or a more content mind. Another reason for choosing the project was because we, the researchers, were curious of how Jack London created a story not like anything else and there we found out of the similarities of his and Buck’s life. A comparison on the life of Buck and Jack London p.2
Every success, failure, burden, Buck had to endure them because that was what Jack London had written. But Buck faced the problems not
References: London, J. (1963). The call of the wild. United States: Bantam SparkNotes Editors. (2003). SparkNote on The Call of the Wild. Retrieved January 6, 2010, from http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/call/html Merriman, C.D. (2008). Biography-London. Retrieved on January 9,2010 from http//www.online-literature.com/london/ Stasz, C. (2001). Jack London. Retrieved on January 9, 2010 on http//London.sonoma.edu/jackbio.html