Keesh

By Jack London

                 “Keesh,” by Jack London, tells of a bright 13 year old boy who lived in the smallest and poorest igloo of the village, in the North Pole, a long time ago he was left to care for his mother because his father was killed fighting a polar bear to provide food for his village. The boy and his mother lived, in the smallest and poorest igloo of the village. Keesh went to a council meeting, where he discussed the matter of crappy food being served to the poor and that it is unfair. No hunter in the council accepted a child to be talking to them like this. The next day Keesh set out to go hunt for better food, he managed to kill a mother and her 2 young cubs. He kept going on trips regularly. He even got an igloo built for him. Ugh-Gluk, ordered 2 warriors to follow the young boy on his next hunt. They saw Keesh drop little balls of meat, a bear ate them and then it died. The warriors of the council went to Keesh’s igloo. Keesh explained that he kill’s bears by butting a sharp whale bone in balls of meat that the bear will eat, and be killed from the inside. Because he used his brain, he rose to power and became the chief of his village. And through all the years he lived, his people had enough to eat, and no one who was weak or old ever cried aloud at night because there was no meat.

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