Description

Blood for blood, rank for rank, runs the code of the intense Thlinket people in Jack London s The Death of Ligoun. A man recounts the tale of a mighty warrior called Ligoun and what took place at a memorable meeting of chiefs long ago. Although Ligoun appreciated fighting, he also advocated peace. Yet the meeting between chiefs is bound to take a grave turn when the code is broken, all insults must be avenged and the code honored until the very end. The short story is one of London s stories inspired by the period the writer spent at the Klondike Gold Rush in the late 19th century and was published in the early 20th century.