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Marxist Analysis of Keesh's Story

1) The story depicts a village where the chief leads unfairly, giving himself more meat than villagers and not caring about equal shares. Keesh, a young poor hunter, stands up against this inequality. 2) Keesh faces discrimination and prejudice due to his social class. The chief represents the bourgeoisie who oppress the proletariat hunters like Keesh and his father. 3) However, Keesh proves himself the greatest hunter by his skills and talents, ending the inequality. The story conveys Jack London's Marxist view of a society divided into two unfair classes.

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Marxist Analysis of Keesh's Story

1) The story depicts a village where the chief leads unfairly, giving himself more meat than villagers and not caring about equal shares. Keesh, a young poor hunter, stands up against this inequality. 2) Keesh faces discrimination and prejudice due to his social class. The chief represents the bourgeoisie who oppress the proletariat hunters like Keesh and his father. 3) However, Keesh proves himself the greatest hunter by his skills and talents, ending the inequality. The story conveys Jack London's Marxist view of a society divided into two unfair classes.

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“Chained”
Living in a village where a chief who leads and villagers who follow. Living in a village
whose primary work is to hunt because it is their main source of food. Also, living in a village
where prejudice, inequality, and defunct great hunters are existing. Jack London’s “The Story of
Keesh” is an example of these scenarios where all of the people in the village itself did not do
anything and live in that unhealthy system or situation except for that young boy who changed
everything. Through this story, the author clearly shows how hard we need to work and fight just
to prove something that is right. However, in the story, the hardness doubled because of Keesh,
the young boy’s social class.

In the story, we can see the power of upper class or the one who has the position and
money. They were discriminating and treating poor people unfairly. Just like how Klosh-Kwan,
the chief of the village treat his villagers unfairly by giving not equal amount of meat in the
village. The chief believes that hunters should only do is to kill bears and give it to him and does
not care for the villager’s equal share. This system will not be change if not Keesh, a young
brave man stood up and said that his father was once a great hunter but died and been forgotten.
His father brought more meat than any great hunter but now look what happened, the villagers
does not have a fair share. We can see here that the workers doesn’t received a well appreciation
or prestige from what they have done even when they died or not. Also, a discrimination
happened here to Keesh after he said those things and the chief did not listen to him. It is because
of his appearance and social class which is only poor. The people also don’t trust him when he
volunteer to hunt some bears and suspected bad things to him like he is using a witchcraft, a sign
of prejudice. From this, it clearly shows that Klosh-Kwan is the part of bourgeoisie while Keesh
and the other hunters as part of the proletariat.

But thankfully, the inequality and prejudice here ended when Keesh proved himself that
despite of the doubt and inequality he experienced, his smart talent and skill proved him as a
greatest hunter like his father and soon lead their village. Keesh proved that the hunters are only
relying to what their chief tell to them. This story is great example of workers that were
completely blinded and become a puppet of the upper class because of the thought that this is
their only way to live. The proletariats were chained to what have been assigned to them and is
unable to think for themselves. The author Jack London, who was also known as a member of
the proletariat, clearly conveyed the idea of a society that has been divided into two classes from
his story, “The story of Keesh.”

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