It is known that the human personality is affected by the environmental conditions in which he lives, and poverty may be a reason for the person to discover himself and work to form its features, and this is what happened with the famous writer Jack London, and during the following lines we will highlight the important stages that the late American writer has gone through.
Today, the anniversary of the death of “Jacques London”, who died in November 22, 1916, was born in 1876 and started his life as a writer through a stories competition in a newspaper and received the first prize, during his teenager and youth he suffered from poverty, he was not able to publish his stories so he did. In many works.
Jack’s childhood was not easy, as he worked in a young age in various professions to secure his life such as coal and ships, and during his spare time he was visiting libraries and enjoying reading novels and books books.
His life began as a writer in 1893, when a sea hurricane almost eliminated Jack and the crew of the savage ship on board, and after returning home, he told his mother about the story, which prompted him to advance to a stories competition that I had read about in a newspaper, and although he did not exceed the eighth grade in his school He managed to win the first prize, outperforming university students from Stanford and Berkeley.
As for London, this competition was a launch for him, he wanted to follow the writing of short stories, but he found it difficult to find financiers, so he returned to California to register at Berkeley University before he went to Canada in the period when people were excavating gold, in search of money To publish his stories.
With his arrival at the age of 22, London was unable to raise a lot of money, so he returned to California, which is Egypt, to be a writer of stories driven by the experiences he lived in Yukon in Canada, and his poverty and mixing with men and women looking for gold desperately made him embrace socialism.
London began to publish in Overland Monthly in 1899, and since then he decided to improve himself and his style to write a thousand words daily, and the writer touched the beginning of fame in 1903 through the novel The Call of the Wild, which talks about the life of a dog in Yukon, and within the last 16 years From the life of Jack, 50 books, including The People of the Abyss, in which he criticized capitalism and White Fang, who spoke about the story of a wolf domesticated and John Barlycorn, which was about the story of a struggle with alcohol.
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