Topic > Jack London's Call of the Wild Analysis - 1100
Carrying torches, they marched to large bonfires, where they burned some 25,000 volumes of "non-German" books. not limited to works of Jewish writers; … social critics Eric Kastner, Bertolt Brecht, Heinrich Mann and Jack London”14 were also victims of these fires. Nazi and German students targeted Jack London's novel in the 1930s because London was seen by the Nazis as a “social critic”15. London has the idea of uniformity, that everyone is the same, and “he showed his [idea] in his novel 'The Call of the Wild'”16. London's personal ideology of uniformity goes directly against the Nazi idea.
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