Jack London

Jack London’s characters and settings reflect his life in his works. This is most obvious in his novels The Call of the Wild, Martin Eden, and To Build a Fire. Jack London was born in 1876 in San Francisco, California. He lived with his father and mother. His father was an astrologer and his mother supposedly talked to the dead. He grew up not being cared for and with very little education (Adventures 482). Jack London …

…went to the Yukon Territory for the same thing. Neither Jack nor John came back with gold though. John Thorton found that gold was not what he was looking for. London gave up on gold, but he found ideas for his writings (Call of the Wild). Most of his main characters controlled their own destinies and were always in search for something. John Thorton leaves his mother and father in search for his life goal.