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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…

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…

“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…

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,…

Pushed Off the Mountain, Sold Down the River is a book written by Samuel Western. Western is a correspondent for The Economist, and has written for The Wall Street Journal, LIFE, Sports Illustrated, along with being published in many other news sources. Samuel Western is well-suited to write about Wyoming, although he was not born or raised here, because he has done a respectable amount of research, as well as being a published writer. He spends a significant amount of time looking at Wyoming’s…

Jack London’s “To Build a Fire” is an adventure story of an unnamed protagonist’s futile effort to wander out in the below zero tundra of the Yukon Territory, joined by his dog, to visit his friends. Overlooking the risks of venturing out alone, the man then underestimates the harsh weather conditions and slowly begins to freeze to death in the snow. Willa Cather’s “Neighbour Rosicky” is a character study of Anton Rosicky, a man who, confronting the approach of death, reflects on the meaning and…

included expanding settlement, providing valuable jobs, and spurring immigration. Before the railroad was constructed, settlements were mostly established on the east coast. There were, however, a few settlements out west as a result of the California Gold Rush, but there was nothing in between. Traveling the 2,000 miles to California from the eastern region of the United States took five hard and often deadly month due to lack of proper transportation. After the Civil War ended, the railroad…