摘　要

短篇小说《热爱生命》是19世纪末20世纪初美国知名小说家杰克•伦敦的其中一篇著名的短篇小说。该小说主要讲述了一个悲壮的故事。小说主人公在被朋友抛弃在荒原之后，饱受着各种痛苦与磨难，这其中主要包括：寒冷、饥饿、病痛、病狼等等。小说主要通过各种细节描写突出主人公顽强的生存意志，以及最终战胜各种艰难险阻，摆脱死亡的束缚，赢得最终的胜利。本文主要通过对小说中的环境、细节描写、人物动作，以及人物内心世界的分析，最终得出《热爱生命》中的象征意义，以及其对现当代人的启示。

关键词：《热爱生命》；象征意义；现代人；启示

Abstract

The short story Love of Life is one of the well-known American novelist Jack London’s famous short stories in the late 19th century and the early 20th century. The book mainly tells about a moving and tragic story. After being abandoned in the wilderness by his friend, the protagonist in the short story suffers from a variety of pains and sufferings, which include: cold, hunger, sickness, sick wolf and so on. The short story mainly describes various details to highlight the tenacious will to survive of the protagonist, and eventually he overcomes all difficulties and obstacles, gets rid of the shackles of death, and wins the final victory. This paper will analyze the environment, detail descriptions, actions of the figures, and the inner world of the characters, and ultimately get the symbolic meaning in Love of Life, as well as its great inspiration on modern people.  

Key words: Love of Life; symbolism; modern people; inspiration

1    Introduction
The short story Love of Life is one of the well-known American novelist Jack London’s famous short stories in the late 19th century and the early 20th century. The book mainly tells about a moving and tragic story. After being abandoned in the wilderness by his friend, the protagonist in the short story suffers from a variety of pains and sufferings, which include: cold, hunger, sickness, sick wolf and so on. The short story mainly describes various details to highlight the tenacious will to survive of the protagonist, and eventually he overcomes all difficulties and obstacles, gets rid of the shackles of death, and wins the final victory. This paper will analyze the environment, detail descriptions, actions of the characters, and the inner world of the characters, and ultimately get the symbolic meaning in Love of Life, as well as its great inspiration on modern people.