Jack London , the writer of this short story is an American author , juronalist and social activity. He has contributed many well known works to society
The narrative pattern of this story is very complicated .The narrator named Charley has directly dedicated this story to his friend Otto who is negro man . The story presents voyages of these two characters .They have been living together for seventeen years. Their relationship is based on their emotion rather then master or slave.
The very meaning of heathen is the person who does not belong to any fix or particular class or community.the story reveals that Otto is considered to be the heathen as he does not belong to upperclassmen though he is from the African American class. The African people are suppressed by the whites and they are dragged to their own class but they are considered to be slave. This story also demonstrate the idea of master slave relationship.the white belives that the black are born to be merely slaves and that is why they are forced to be African Christian in which otooo remains d ifferent from them and thus he becomes the heathen of that community.
The narrative pattern of this story is very complicated .The narrator named Charley has directly dedicated this story to his friend Otto who is negro man . The story presents voyages of these two characters .They have been living together for seventeen years. Their relationship is based on their emotion rather then master or slave.
The very meaning of heathen is the person who does not belong to any fix or particular class or community.the story reveals that Otto is considered to be the heathen as he does not belong to upperclassmen though he is from the African American class. The African people are suppressed by the whites and they are dragged to their own class but they are considered to be slave. This story also demonstrate the idea of master slave relationship.the white belives that the black are born to be merely slaves and that is why they are forced to be African Christian in which otooo remains d ifferent from them and thus he becomes the heathen of that community.
Jack has indirectly given his views over how society creates injustice to the people. If Otto does not belong to his Christian community then society also does not belong to the religion names Humanity and it does not let human beings live their life the way they want to.
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