Fraser Canyon Gold Rush

Ethan C. Buck, a dog, went on a journey. The Hero’s Journey. The Hero’s Journey is a set of steps in a narrative to complete a challenge. The hero, in this case Buck, went through countless challenges in his lifetime, and lost many, many owners. Buck had conquered the wilderness, but had lost his innocence along the way. His first kill was troublesome, A horrible way to be the head of a pack. The cold hush winter of the Yukon terrain, had both Spitz and Buck crying out in pain. Buck’s innocence…

Nothing Golden About the California Gold Rush “...the streets hip-deep in mud; the river steamboat races that killed scores when overheated boilers exploded; the rough justice of vigilantism, lynchings, and ear-clippings; the riots, fires, and floods; the cities crowded with thousands of men, among whom could be found only a few women, many of them prostitutes.” (Holliday 12) When James Marshall found gold in California, he wanted to keep it a secret. Eventually, with help from Samuel…

In To Build a Fire, Jack London uses precise diction to emphasize the emotional overtone of this serene, yet deadly setting. The choice of words in a story affects the way readers perceive the message the author is trying to convey. The words the author chooses tremendously impacts the effect of the narrative on the reader. Although the trail the man was traveling on was very beautiful, it was also deadly. This shows that the aspects of human life should never be taken for granted. Jack London…

Naturalism in “To Build a Fire” “To Build a Fire,” the short story by Jack London, tells the story of a single man, accompanied by his dog, who, in the Canadian wilderness in winter, attempts to build a fire so he can stay alive. The man makes multiple mistakes, the biggest one being that he builds his first fire under a tree that has snow on it that falls onto the fire. The man makes more mistakes like this that prevent him from building the fire and, due to…

“sun-kissed” life, gold is discovered in the North in Alaska, and large dogs suddenly become super valuable because these types of dogs are needed to haul the heavy sleds through the vast, snowy mountains and wastelands of Alaska. This book is a realistic fiction, for these characters never existed, but real events could’ve taken place. This book is important because it shows how life was for sled dogs in the vast, freezing, tundras and mountains of Alaska on the hunt for gold. This book…

What’s the greatest length you would go to make sure your family survives? Would you join the life of prostitution to make sure your little boy stays alive? Would you sacrifice everything you have to keep your family in their home? Or would you leave all your family behind to find freedom in another country? In the book, Krik? Krak!, a series of short stories, the author Danticat utilizes juxtaposition to create “Do Whatever It Takes” characters that in return create an overall mood of…

Call of the Wild is a novella by Jack London that portrays a dog named Buck who is a fit, but lazy dog living in California. He is pushed suddenly into the hard work of a sled dog. He works to survive his new life, adapting constantly. Throughout the book, adaptation is essential for him to survive his tough life, for only the fittest survive. Although many things are necessary for survival, adaptation is the main one. In the scene in which the quote appears, Buck is trying to find where all the…

Chinatown is an ethnic enclave which defined as an area in a city with a high concentration of Chinese people. In fact, Chinatown has been home to many immigrant families, and people who reside in Chinatown rely on networks of relatives and friends and on affordable goods, food as well as housing within the neighborhood. New York City 's Chinatown is considered the largest Chinatown in the United States (Waxman, n.d.), and it is located on the lower east side of Manhattan. According to National…

Almost everyone has heard about the California Gold Rush at some point, it brings up images of hermits panning for gold in a river. In actuality the California Gold Rush is much more than that. Many things throughout American would not be the same without the California Gold Rush. The California Gold Rush caused a huge boom in civilization in the western part of the United States of America, because of it there was a boom a population growth in a short period of time. It caused many of the major…

Since the beginnings of mankind human beings have thrived on new ideas, curiosities, and inventions. Technology has shaped us over time more than anything else has in this world. People become attached to different objects that improve their lives and even in some cases ruin them. Having a nice home, a nice car, the coolest clothes, the most money, things like these are what motivate a lot of people in today’s world. All of these different types of objects make people feel valuable, privileged,…