Jack London became my favourite writer from his first books I'd read. First of all I got interested in Jack London as a personality. His life story struck me not less than his works. What a man! He was strong and talented. He lived a life of adventures and hardships, so he knew what he was writing about. In his novel Martin Iden he describes his biography. What a hard life he lived!
Jack London was born in San Francisco in 1876. From his childhood he suffered greatly. He changed a lot of jobs: selling out newspapers, working at the factory. He hated that kind of job, which exhausted people and made them suffer physically and morally.
Young Jack had no opportunity to go to school, so he studied privately reading much at night.
Study sentences 1-5. How do we form the comparative and superlative forms
of adverbs?
1 My brother is meaner than anyone I know. He's also the most selfish person I know.
2 Painting helps me take life less seriously and more positively.
3 We're the least successful team, but we're the most optimistic.
4 I do my hobby more happily at home. It's more comfortable and less stressful.
5 The richest people gave the least generously and spoke to us the most rudely.
Complete the table with the words in blue.
Comparatives
Adjectives: meaner, more comfortable, less stressful.
Adverbs: less seriously, more positively, more happily.
Superlatives
Adjectives: the most selfish, the least successful, the most optimistic, the richest. Adverbs: the least generously, the most rudely.
