What does "Love Life" mainly talk about?

"Love of Life" is a work by American realist writer Jack London. It is the most artistically appealing short story in "Northern Stories".

"Love of Life" describes the survival experience of a lonely and helpless gold digger for 7 days and 7 nights. From the very beginning of the novel, the novel takes readers into a specific natural environment such as the wilderness canyon in the Arctic Circle with an unadorned and cold tone. The protagonist in it, facing the harsh reality, has to smash the illusory golden dream, and use his quality, potential and will as a laborer to deal with the tyranny of nature and try his best to change his precarious destiny. During the long journey out of the Pole, he was hungry and tired for five consecutive days, making him almost lose his ability to think. He didn't know when to sleep in the open or when to set off. As soon as his dying life sparkled, he slowly crawled forward. As he was rolling and rolling, a passing bear roared tentatively at him. He used the courage inspired by the critical moment to support himself to stand up, and screamed at the black bear longing for life, which actually scared the giant beast away.

Wolves in twos and threes slipped past him, avoiding this "strange animal" that although exhausted, still showed the existence of life. There were spots of blood behind him where he had crawled. Just when he was approaching the Arctic Ocean, he found a hungry, sick wolf staring at him with its dim eyes, licking the blood stains he left on the ground. He crawled all the way, while the sick wolf limp all the way. The two dying creatures started a life-and-death struggle in the wilderness. Whenever the sick wolf came close to him, he would wake up with the sound of rapid breathing, and the sick wolf would be frightened and immediately jump away with a limp. This terrible tug-of-war continued for a long time. Finally, the wolf's teeth caught on his hand. He took advantage of the situation and grabbed the wolf's gums with his other hand. After some struggle and struggle, he put his whole weight on the wolf's body, but His hands were no longer able to strangle it to death, so he bit the wolf's throat tightly with his teeth. Half an hour later, a warm liquid flowed into his throat, he turned over and fell into coma again. Three weeks later, lying on the whaling boat, he spoke incoherently about what he had experienced.

In this way, a specific environment symbolically expresses the dangers on the road of life. An image of persisting and struggling in the face of the threat of death contains the human spirit of overcoming difficulties and defeating death. The resilience and strength shown in the struggle. The work was published in an era of spiritual and cultural crisis in the Western world. At that time, the popular "late century literature" focused on expressing death, morbidity and suicide, which aggravated the pessimism and misanthropy of society. "Love of Life" used unrealistic realism to praise people's strong desire to survive and tenacious vitality. It reveals the simple truth of using hard work to realize hope, which undoubtedly brings a strong breeze to the gray and gloomy literary world. Because the work contains a positive meaning of life, it was once regarded as the Soviet Union after the victory of the October Revolution. Education is the spiritual food that inspires the younger generation to create a new life. According to Krupskaya, Lenin liked this novel very much during his lifetime, and two days before his death, someone read this novel to him. The narrative language of the novel is cold. , creating a harsh atmosphere to deepen the sinister feeling caused by the environment in the readers' minds.