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WHAT I LEARNED
FROM THE SEA WOLF
One of the writers who deeply affected me growing up was Jack London. He’s probably most famous for the book The Call of the Wild. But he wrote over 50 books. Some of them nonfiction. A few autobiographical. But by far most of them were great works of fiction. One of my favorites is The Sea Wolf.
One thing I learned from Jack London is to never . . .
Before I explain what I learned, let me point out that Jack London was a powerhouse writer. He wrote adventure tales packed with energy, conflict, and character. Whether the lead character was a person or an animal, you could always identify with them.
In The Sea Wolf, the lead character is the captain, called the sea wolf. He’s mad. He’s insane. And he’s driving our narrator and everyone else batty as well.
But you get to know the captain through the book. You learn he’s smart, well read, articulate, and a bit of a testosterone freak. But what could you expect when he came from the mind of Jack London, one of America’s most popular he-man authors of the early part of the 1900s?
London himself was a sailor. He had spent time on the sea,
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