Summary: Up To The Yukon

Improved Essays
The story begins with the man walking inside the Yukon wilderness alone. The weather was cold around 50 degrees below zero, whenever he spits, it freezes in the air and falls down in the snowy ground. He couldn’t feel of his hands. It was the first winter to the man to go up to the Yukon so he didn’t have any idea about how cold the weather is on there. He was headed for the old camp on Henderson Creek the boys were already. He figures that he will be at camp that night. Following at the man’s heels was a big native dog. The animal was afraid and feeling worried about the great cold and it wasn’t the right time to travel but follows the man so they travel along. The man face was similar ice-covered but more solidly, the man had tobacco on his

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    With the passage of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (1971), Alaska Native people were faced with a daunting choice: give up their historic land and participate in an economically forward society, or remain in possession of their lands and govern their people. Later, Native tribes of Alaska created Constitutions to develop their communities and generate a body of government tailored to their location. With 200 tribe constitutions, it would be nearly impossible to compare and contrast them all; therefore, we will examine the Constitution of Kanatak and the Constitution of Fort Yukon. Although Kanatak and Fort Yukon are located in different parts of Alaska, their constitutions are similar.…

    • 336 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In Wrong et al’s The Story of Canada, he starts off with a very important main point: before the white man came. Why is this important? This is important because many focus on the after white men arrived. However, he words that the Indians were unworthy in comparison to the higher Europeans; with their lack of proper tools, lack of a system to living, et cetera.…

    • 366 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    He obviously has lack of experience if he can't tell if it's too cold to take on such a big task. The man wanders out into the great Yukon not knowing the weather conditions and nine hours into the hike the dog breaks into the ice and gets his legs wet as the man pulls…

    • 579 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The article “Arctic National Refuge” was written by President Jimmy Carter, and Photographic Journey by Subhankar Banerjee. He wrote this article to protect the wild animals from humans. The author used many quotes to explain how the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge protects the wild animals, and their habitats. First of all, “The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge stands alone as America’s last truly great wilderness,” Carter said. He means that the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique opportunity to save wild animals in their natural habitat in America.…

    • 320 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Canada has the right to assert arctic sovereignty for the surrounding areas and has the right to claim the Arctic, however not only does Canada benefit it the most it's what makes sense through enforced jurastristion Canada understands the needs for the Arctic as well as having a stable government. The northwest passage, however, interferes with who actually has access to the Arctic making it almost a war. Most commonly power is divided and shared amongst the territories surrounding as long as this is done on a peaceful basis, all sovereign states have the right to allocate their powers to political units within their borders. And within the borders of the Canadian Arctic, the northern Canadian population has completely accepted the government’s…

    • 392 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    During his hike up the trail the narrator faces many obstacles along the way such as his fingers becoming numb and falling into knee deep water and essentially freezing his lower half. Immediately he begins to build a fire but he unwittingly builds it underneath a tree with snow falling off the branches. Realizing his mistake the narrator begins to understand that even with all his brainpower there was no way he would be able to think his way out of this situation. “The man was shocked. It was as though he had just heard his own sentence of death.…

    • 1011 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    TransCanada’s responses to its environment can be described by two actions: the drafting of the EIS and the Perryman Study and working with the Nebraska government to reroute the pipeline. 2.1 Environmental Impact Study and Perryman Study As to compile with the National Environmental Policy Act and the Department of State for a presidential permit that included a national interest determination, TransCanada had to prepare an EIS, which was a three-year study and examined “project design and safety, including the potential for oil spills, the potential impact on the Ogallala Aquifer and groundwater in the Sandhills regions, GHGs, wildlife, fisheries, cultural resources, visual resources, environmental justice, and an assessment of alternative…

    • 1509 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    An alien spaceship slowly emerges from the stars and enters the earth near Antartica. In the Antarctic, A Norwegians helicopter flies very low chasing and shooting at a dog running in the snow. The helicopter attempts to land near an American Antarctic base, but crashes. One sole Norwegian with a machine gun is able to leap out before the crash.…

    • 1752 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Douglas Mawson’s soles of his feet were hanging off, oozing blood and pus, as he trudged through the snow of Antarctica. Would you make a physical sacrifice like that to achieve a goal? There have been a copious amount of sacrifices made to make new discoveries in science. The scene described above was suffered by Douglas Mawson. This man and two other people made very substantial sacrifices; he risked his life to learn as much about Antarctica as he could and sacrificed the most out of all of these people.…

    • 672 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Two Old Women Analysis

    • 1054 Words
    • 5 Pages

    The story of Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage, and Survival by Velma Wallis is an amazing story that instill valuable lessons that still relate to today 's society. The novel is about a bedtime story a mother is telling her children about a Alaska. tribe who with harsh weather and food conditions decide to leave the older members of their group behind for the better good of the group. The most important themes that occur within this story is, gender roles, youth thinking, abd graitatuite. I strongly believe that Wallis does a great job at taking the reader through several lessons the story holds.…

    • 1054 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    According to Jean Jacques Rousseau, “People are basically good, but had become corrupted by civilization and society.” From the beginning of the Grunwalski story we had heard the old man say about there is nothing like a good shit. This may because he is not belief in God, which influence of his friend Grunwalski. This story is about the old man and Grunwalski, who are going to Siberia work camp together.…

    • 133 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    I was first intrigued by Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North, due to the focus of the story being on the Thai-Burma Railway (or the Death Railway as it was also called) during World War II (WWII). This setting interested me as I have always had a curiosity about history and the study of history. Similarly I was also interested in the Thai-Burma Railway as last year I had done a project on it in my history class. However as I started reading the novel, the setting became less important to me and instead I was more interested in the way in which heroes were created and how society defined and shaped people.…

    • 512 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Alaska The Last Frontier

    • 287 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Today, a lot of people call Alaska The Last Frontier. Alaska is referred to as a wilderness that is unsettled, covered in snow, not accessible, remote, and a very intense land where very few tough pioneers traveled to. Hope, a small town on the Kenai Peninsula, gives Alaska a frontier spirit. Hope was the location for the first gold discovery in Alaska in 1896 and gold was the mainstay of the Alaskan economy. The gold rush caused the building of railways to extract minerals.…

    • 287 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    The story is set during the winter months in Utah, with temperatures well below zero, -32 to be exact. The author helps readers embark on this journey, using a common well known disease,…

    • 944 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Great Essays

    Humanity is known to signify empathy, sympathy, and overall kind interpersonal interactions. It is often associated with and used to characterize humans; however, humans have committed various atrocities that bring to question their humaneness; therefore, there is a lack of confidence within a human’s capability to be humane, and it is still not completely known as to why this occurs. However, according to Richard Flanagan, renowned author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, humanity in and of itself is lost in times of circumstantial pressures. According to Flanagan, one reason that inhumane atrocities occur are due to the racial tensions instilled within people during times of ethnocentric pressure.…

    • 1573 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Great Essays