“Law of Life” and On the Origin of Species

TASK

Your task is to write two thesis statements: one rhetorical analysis thesis for “Law of Life” and one argument thesis for On the Origin of Species.

“Law of Life” Thesis

In a well-developed essay, analyze how Jack London uses rhetorical strategies to illustrate the relationship between a society’s and an individual’s survival.

On the Origin of Species Thesis

Read the last sentence of the text. Defend, challenge, or qualify if modern society has accepted the “grandeur in this view of life,” which Darwin presents in this passage and in his theory of evolution.