Ralph Ellison And The Politics Of The Novel Book

1911 eh? The narrator says he was born before the age of gasoline, even the spelling of the word itself is obsolete. He is "old fashioned".

Once a sailor, always a sailor. I always believe, sailor is a special profession. It dates as old as the people start to hunt, to make tools, to explore and to conquer. Is it why Jack London started the book with a beginning "resembling" a 21 st century NGO report?

Passing by an exhibition in universität Köln about Moby Dick, seeing the portray of man against sea, I raise the question: why people constantly feel threatened by the sea, instead, the land makes people feel safe. Gravity? On the surface of the sea, people feel their lives is up and down every single second, in the hand of raging Mother Nature. But land, most of the time, it's nurturing.

Jack London calls sailor human drift, painted a picture of a future mixed human race. However, before the narrator starts, it's a bit awkward.