... from preforming manual labor (Frank 258). Through Jack London's tribulations as a factory worker, a pirate, participating in the dangerous Klondike Gold Rush, and even going to jail, he wanted nothing to do with the middle, working class citizen anymore (Niemi 471). Jail time is what guided ... socialist elements smothered by adventure to hide the elements from capitalist readers (Hicks 260). London is considered to be a materialist, socialist, Darwinian, and Nietzschean all at once. Being this diverse led him to a constant inner struggle about his own beliefs (Wagenknecht 225). Being fr...

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... human behavior, presents a universal theme, or uses language in an exceptional way. I believe the most reoccurring idea is a universal theme, its something everybody and almost all living things naturally have in common. It's the only example out of the three that's a definite; just if it's used in a literary ... is where I believe a sense of a universal theme is created. The theme I believe to be one in the story is Survival. Survival is a natural instinct that can be found anywhere by any living thing. The main setting of this story is a man who is journeying the freezing cold weather...

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