Gold

“There was no Promise of sun, although there was not a cloud in the sky.” (London) Jack London’s short story starts out cold, bleak and rather miserable. The story is about an unnamed man traveling the Yukon with a native wolf-dog. They are set to get to an old mining camp off Henderson Creek to meet up with the boys a little after dark. Unfortunately, due to the man’s ego by not following the old man’s advice and his lack of common sense, he ends up freezing to death on the trail thus, never…

after reading the poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost. Gold is a valuable chemical element with hue that is held to great stature, “Nothing gold can stay” as interpreted by me means that the things we value that are “gold” to us will not stay with forever whether it be physically or mentally. I also use my tattoo as a manta, meaning that even though gold is cherished the glaze will fade eventually and knowing this I can cherish the people I consider to be gold in my life, as they will…

his own personal experiences. The Call of the Wild is inspired by London’s many voyages to the frigid Northeast parts of Canada known as the Klondike in search of gold. London’s main character in The Call of the Wild is Buck, a pampered yet robust domestic dog of mixed breed in southern California. Buck is stolen amidst the Klondike Gold Rush in order to be sold as a sled dog in the colder Northern territories. Throughout his journey, Buck experiences atavism, or in simpler terms, he “devolves”…

Jack London wrote both “To build a fire” and Call of the Wild. In these two writing pieces he shared many similarities and differences in the main characters evolution and details throughout the writing. In To build a fire the story takes place in a cold place that is more than fifty degrees below zero. There is a man who is trying to get back to his two boys. On his journey he takes his dog. In their journey they are faced with many challenges. For example, the cold is too much for the man to…

suit, silver shirt and gold-colored tie” (Fitzgerald 84). Here there are a number of colors that can mean something about Gatsby. Gatsby is a rich man and in the book a few times the color gold is used to explain his wealth such as his turkeys that are “bewitched to a dark gold” (Fitzgerald 40). Gatsby’s love for Daisy is pure and true, but Gatsby as a person is not really pure and true. The color gold means wealthy, pure, and impressing, but the color yellow is a fake gold. Although yellow is…

He says in the first line “Natures first green is gold”, later on, he says, “Then leaf subsides with leaf. - So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. - Nothing gold can stay”. This all shows us that we should appreciate rare opportunities in life because they don’t last forever and they don’t come around often. Frost shows us that nothing is immortal.…

Today I had gold day classes which was fine and okay because nothing really excites me as much as Hist 34. In Hist 34, I got to learn all about Asian Immigrants or citizens that were in the USA in the 1800s to 1900s of how they were treated badly like the African Americans. Later that day I really loved that class but the stress was building up with the other college classes that I had. Because in all of my college classes there will always be a paper to type, and I do not have time to do my…

Narrative structure This book is a story about a family going on a bear hunt. Gamble and Yates (2013, p. 69) explain that narrative structure of a story contains two elements such as the story plot and how the story has been conveyed. The book started with a fiction theme of going on a journey of hunting a bear (where the events are plausible), as soon as they venture the bear, the story turns in to fantasy (Gamble & Yates, 2013, p. 80). By switching between the two genres, the author has…

Thomas King’s Green Grass, Running Water portrays various lives of characters intertwined by the Native American folkloric gods. Lionel Red Dog, a man turning 40 years old attempts to reconstruct his life on a better path while struggling with his identity. As a born Canadian with an Asian ethnicity, my personal reading of Lionel and Charlie’s father Portland Looking Bear highlights their struggle with identity. Although never explicitly stated, the conflicting needs of being an individual and…

As we jump “Into the Wild” story of Chris McCandless’s journey throughout the Alaskan wilderness, Jon Krakaur, the author uses rhetorical devices to further delve into the novel and the underlying points of McCandless’s adventure. In the novel, “Into the Wild”, Jon Krakaur uses pathos, imagery, and arrangement to solve the overarching questions related to motive, the effects of setting, and the mental state of Chris McCandless. These uses of rhetorical devices also help readers formulate…