“He is a Mercury -- a brown Mercury. His heels are winged, and in them is the swiftness of the sea. In truth, from out of the sea he has leaped upon the back of the sea, and he is riding the sea that roars and bellows and cannot shake him from its back.”
In this passage, Jack London compares the Hawaiian surfer to a _____________

a. planet

b.Greek god

c. farm worker

d.liquid metal