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The Theme Of Love In Aloha Oe By Jack London

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During 1908, the United States of America was strengthening their relationship with Hawaii and their military force by establishing the naval base Pearl Harbor. Jack London was the first American author to become a worldwide celebrity. The story “Aloha Oe” is about a fifteen-year-old girl named Dorothy Sambrooke leaving Hawaii with her father, a member of the American Senatorial Party, after staying in the territory for a month and meeting, and falling in love with, a twenty-year-old boy named Stephen Knight. In “Aloha Oe”, Jack London reveals the idea that love overpowers societal standards; this theme is expressed by using literary devices such as imagery, personification, and irony. Love does not see ethnicity. When Dorothy Sambrooke is on the boat about to leave Hawaii and her beloved, “she noticed again the imperious, yearning, blaze in Steve’s eyes.” Throughout the story, London uses imagery to convey how strong the relationship between Dorothy Sambrooke and Stephen Knight has become in the one-month Sambrooke has been in Hawaii. This quotation uses words like imperious and yearning and blaze to show that the love between the people is intense. Since London has described the love shared between Dorothy Sambrooke and Stephen Knight using words associated with intense feelings and passion the reader knows that the characters have intense and passionate feelings towards one another. It is also important to note the quote, in which London says, “Stephen Knight is a

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