Jack London's 'The Sea Sprite And The Shooting Star'

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Jack London was a prominent writer from the early twentieth century who came from humble beginnings in San Francisco. He produced such famous pieces of work as The Call of the Wild, The Iron Heel, and White Fang. London from an early age lived an adventurous life, he worked many jobs and even survived a “harrowing sealing voyage” in 1893. He decided to enter his tale into a writing contest which he subsequently won, and at the age of seventeen he decided to dedicate his life to writing stories. His first successful book, The Call of the Wild, published in 1903 which only furthered his drive to write ("Jack London Biography."). London wrote at least one thousand words every day and published over 50 books during the twentieth century alone("Jack London Biography."). This includes his poem, “The Sea Sprite and the Shooting Star.” …show more content…

The Sea Sprite journeys up by way of a beam of light casted down from the moon. He carefully climbs up the moonbeam into the night sky in order to meet his true love, the shining star. However, the moonbeam the young Sprite is traveling on falters and collapses and he becomes stranded in the night sky on the moon (London, Jack. “The Sea Sprite and the Shooting Star”). He spots his star but cries out “woefully” because he is unable to reach out to her, even though he is so much closer to her. “But the little star heard, his every word,” and she hurries over to the Moon, where the sea sprite is and takes him by the hand and brings him back down to Earth “where they live forever and aye” (London, Jack. “The Sea Sprite and the Shooting