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美国文学史作业（3John Griffith Jack London（1876-1916） was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. He is best remembered as the author of White Fang and Call of the Wild, set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories To Build a Fire, An Odyssey of the North, and Love of Life.[citation needed] He also wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as The Pearls of Parlay and The Heathen, and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf II、plot and main character The story starts with a soft, domesticated, intellectual character named Humphrey van Weyden onboard a San Francisco ferry, called Martinez, which collides with another ship in the fog and sinks. And eventually being picked up by Wolf Larsen and forced to become tough and self-reliant and know about cruelty and brutalities. Larsen is the captain of the seal-hunting ship called Ghost. Brutal and cynical, yet also highly intelligent, he rules over his ship and terrorizes the crew with the aid of his great physical strength. Being interested in someone capable of intellectual disputes, he somewhat takes care of Hump while forcing him to become a cabin boy, do menial work, and learn to fight to protect himself from a brutal crew. ?It is said that where there is oppression, there is resistance.?One night, several sailors worked together to throw Larsen and his mate Johansen into the sea. His mate died while Larsen managed to climb back to rule over the ship again and try to avenge but failed at first. He later gets his vengeance. ? Following this, the Ghost picks up another set of castaways, including a woman poet named Maud Brewster. Both Wolf Larsen and Humphrey immediately feel attraction to her due to her intelligence. Humphrey sees her as his first true love. He strives to protect he