A piece of steak by Scarlett Garcia

A piece of steak

Scarlett Garcia

A piece of steak is a very interesting short story written by Jack London.

The purpose of this book was to show us the struggle of a family, and to make us see that life is hard and sometimes you have to make tough and difficult decisions for your family. It makes you appreciate what you have and not take anything for granted.

The author is trying to accomplish by this story that people can see that there is no perfect life, and that not everything goes as you planned, so you have to appreciate what you have and make the best of everything, in a the way that each one of us can. And it wants to make us see that nothing lasts forever.

Tom, was a very talented man, and he was doing good with the money for his family, but as time passed he started to age and he was not as good as he was back then in boxing. He boxed. And he begins to have many different economic problems, and he wasn’t able to maintain the same life that he had earlier. This is something usual in athletes, they just have a season and then younger ones replace them, but the problem was that he didn’t take that in consideration, so he ended broke, and he was struggling to feed his family.

Some of the data and evidences that the author shows us in this story is the way he was in the past, emotionally and economically very well and very happy. And the author shows us how that has changed totally with the problems that he started facing, he wasn’t happy anymore, he had a lot of pressure. This data is organized in a sequential way. It is comparing the past glory days of Tom, with his present that is very hard. At first it starts in the present struggle, then it shows us the past days, and then they go back to the present. It is a way the author is showing us how hard it is for him and for the whole family to adapt to the new hard life that they are getting into.

I think that the author think that in this world there are many people that have good or “glory days” but that doesn’t mean that life is easy, and you have to take in account that everything can be gone with time, so you cant take anything for granted, and you have to prevent this things, and organize yourself, instead of living as if you are the king of the world and nothing can happen to you. By reading this we can see the things from a whole new perspective, and I think that this was one of the purposes of Jack London, when he wrote this story, and I think that everyone should be aware of this, and should understand that you have to se things from different perspectives and appreciate what you have now, because everything can change.