American Literature / Unit 12 AML 1113 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Jack London and the Yukon
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The idea
London worked as a sailor, a tramp and a gold prospector before turning that experience into fiction, and the witness places him with the naturalists. His north is a place where a mistake is fatal and where the difference between knowing and imagining a fact decides who lives.
In practice
A north where a mistake kills.
Where people slip
The setting is the antagonist.
Your place on the trail
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