Call of the Wild - Facts
Author/Context Jack London is a man who is often misunderstood because of the complexity of his life. Considered by some to be oozing with shallow virility and machisimo, London is instead a man filled with sensitivity and wisdom about the human condition. Born on January 12, 1876 to the unmarried Flora Wellman and William Chaney in San Francisco, California, John Griffith Chaney was renamed John Griffith London, later called "Jack," when William denied that he was his father, and Flora instead married John London, Jack's stepfather. His early years were spent in San Francisco, where he began reading classic stories at the age of eight, an interest that would only continue to spread when th London family moved to nearby Oakland two years later. Jack continued to attend school and took on a number of different jobs ranging from a newspaper route, being an oyster pirate in San Francisco Bay, and a factory laborer. After graduating from the eighth grade in 1890, London toured the country, marching with a labor union to Washington, DC, and then wandering around the northeast as a hobo, meeting new friends in Boston and Buffalo. After returning to Oakland, Jack was determined to complete his education, enrolling in Oakland High School, where he is a prolific writer for the school's newspaper. Later he became interested in the Socialist Party, influenced no doubt by his days as
Language Features in English Advertisements
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Abstract To begin with, I wanted to focus my extended essay in an area of psychology in theatre. I began researching the play "Equus" by Peter Shaffer, as this was a play, looking at the role of a psychiatrist in a young English boy's life. However, when I started researching Shaffer's plays, I realised that, although they were fascinating, it would be extremely difficult to write a four thousand-word essay on one of them! I began to look into other areas, which interested me, such as the musical side of theatre, or different cultures and their playwrights. I soon discovered Athol Fugard. I began looking into his plays, and found that he had a reputation of being one of the most influential South African playwrights of all time. And was writing in a time of great oppression with the apartheid. I then looked into what the apartheid of South Africa, entailed. The more I read, the more I realised living in a society in which every race is kept segregated must be extremely influential on a person's writing. My focus, (still looking at Athol Fugard) soon became "How the brutality of apartheid affected the theatrical development of Athol Fugard". As my research intensified, I discovered a particularly hard-hitting play of his, called "The Island". This play tied in perfectly with my title, as it is set on Robben Island, a prison for political prisoners, which was notorious
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