As Milton wrote about humanity’s and Satan’s free will, so did London write about free will regarding Buck’s experiences in the Alaskan Klondike. Concepts of free will, as depicted in John Milton, were also incredibly influential. London was also influenced by Paradise Lost. In fact, later in life, he attempted to establish a farm on which he could put Darwin’s concepts that were laid out in On the Origin of Species into practice. Jack London’s writing, and outlook on the world, were famously influenced by the writings of Charles Darwin and Karl Marx. He lived there for a year before returning to California with a wealth of material to fuel his writing. He lived there for a year, learning first-hand the kind of suffering one can and cannot endure.ĭuring this period, London experienced diseases, near starvation, and the loss of his four front teeth from scurvy. When he was only twenty-one, the new author traveled to the Yukon in search of his fortune, along with many others who were a part of the Klondike Gold Rush. The Call of the Wild was famously inspired by Jack London’s time in the Yukon. Setting: The late 1890s in California and then in the Klondike.Point-of-View: Third-person limited narrator.The illnesses he suffered from during this period are generally considered to contribute to his death at only forty years old. He lived there for a year before returning to California.

London was inspired to write this novel from his experiences in the Yukon as a twenty-one-year-old man. As the novel progresses, he becomes wilder, learning what it takes to survive and fight among other animals for limited resources. Buck contends with a new way of life that is just as shocking to him as it is to readers. The Call of the Wild was published in 1903 and is a short adventure novel focused on Buck.

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