Comparing Jack London And Mark Twain's The San Francisco Earthquake

In the charming city of San Francisco, residents live their daily lives in peace and composure, but occasionally there are catastrophic earthquakes that divides the cosmopolitan city. In two different articles, “The San Francisco Earthquake” by Jack London and Mark Twain, the authors experience different earthquakes that would depict their knowledge of the modern imperial city. In the articles, Mark Twain and Jack London commonly use clear and straightforward stylistic elements to develop their purpose of their attitude towards the earthquake. Whereas, Jack London and Mark Twain are different, London was mortified by the earthquake, while Twain was astonishingly pleased by it. Jack London, a resident in San Francisco, the commercial

Introducing the article, London claims, “The earthquake shook down in San Francisco hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of walls and chimneys.” This clearly introduces his first thought of the earthquake, and what part of the city meant the most to him. Following the topic sentence, London continues the paragraph describing the infrastructure of the city and how each type of building no longer stands. Businesses, Buildings, and homes are the fundamentals that create a living city, and Jack London is specific in how the earthquake affected these aspects in San Francisco. In addition, London is specific with the city smoke and the conflagration. The fire burns throughout the city and everything that made up San Francisco was disintegrated. The author’s tone is dark and cynical because he states, “San Francisco is gone.” Jack London is a very straightforward and descriptive man. His main focus of his short story is how an earthquake could ruin such a marvelous place. His writing has no action impact, and he doesn’t involve the people that went through the earthquake. He talks about what the city looked like afterwards and it devastated him personally having that he had grown up