Walt Masters Quotes

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Walt Masters is a kind, witty, and intelligent boy attempting to warn old Loren Hall about his claim being jumped. Angus a young man falls in love with a glimmering girl and spends most of his life searching for her. Sam McGee a greedy, gold drawn man who searches to find gold and comes across a very unfortunate fate. However, all three were courageous, incessant, and persistent to find/ obtain the thing they wanted or hoped for. Walt Masters is a boy that has a good heart and promised to watch lame, old Loren Hall’s claim while Loren recovers. Next thing Walt is racing to Dawson to warn old Loren that his claim is being jumped. Right off the bat the author states,”He was only a boy, but in the face of the threatened injustice against old lame Loren Hall he felt that he must do something…. till he saw the men began to square up new stakes…. Then he crawled away till out of hearing, and broke into a run for the camp of the stampeders. Walt's father had taken their own dogs with him …show more content…
The poet explains,”Who called me by my name and ran And faded through the brightening air”(studysync 15-16). From this evidence it explains that the glimmering girl disappeared into the air,. In some comparison the poet states,”I will find out where she has gone,” (studysync 19). This shows how the poet will search for her and try to discover where she disappeared to. In the same way the poet states,”Though I am old with wandering Through hollow lands and hilly lands,”(studysync 17-18). In this text it explains that Angus has been searching for the glimmering girl for a very long time because Angus started the poem young and then at the end he is gray with age. In comparison this shows that Angus is persistent, incessant, and courageous to find the glimmering girl because he spent most of his life searching for the glimmering

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