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How Does Jack London Use Repetition In Up The Slide

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Up the Slide, while written by a well-known author, does not meet my expectations of a well-written short story because of the repetitiveness, the lack of clear plot, and the failure to expand on necessary parts.

Repetition, while may enforce a concept, also makes a short story quite boring if the same information is given to the reader several times. This type of repetition is found in Jack London's Up the Slide. For example, the author keeps reinforcing the fact that the mountain and snow is slippery and therefore Clay keeps slipping.

A plot is the series of conflicts that keeps the story moving and the reader interested. Without one, a short story would just be a pattern of words. In Up the Slide, the plot is very confusing and hard

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