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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: head to a volley of sleet that drove around a corner of the
canvas. "The edge that you and I've got, Tommy, and the edge of
our mothers before us."
THE MAN WITH THE GASH
Jacob Kent had suffered from cupidity all the days of his life.
This, in turn, had engendered a chronic distrustfulness, and his
mind and character had become so warped that he was a very
disagreeable man to deal with. He was also a victim to
somnambulic propensities, and very set in his ideas. He had been
a weaver of cloth from the cradle, until the fever of Klondike had
entered his blood and torn him away from his loom. His cabin
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