Klondike Gold Rush

In the short story, "To Build a Fire" by Jack London, a man is hiking with a dog through the Klondike towards a camp containing other travelers in below seventy-five-degree temperatures. Throughout the story, he experiences many obstacles along his path due to nature and his own misdoings. He is unable to identify and interpret the correct measures to take, making his trek much more difficult, and this, along with the glacial temperatures, is what ultimately results in the man's death. Because…

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The movie, the Last of the Mohicans, begins with the introduction of three of the main characters Hawkeye or Natty Bumppo, his adoptive Mohican father, Chingachgook, and Chingachgook’s biological son, and Hawkeye’s adoptive Mohican brother, Uncas. All three characters are introduced as hunters, where they hunt and kill a buck. Their introduction also leads to the introduction of other characters. These three characters travel through the woods after their hunt, to a family, whom they know,…

Jack London’s story To Build a Fire is a story that shows a man vs. nature struggle of a man that is a newcomer to the world of cold. This man is on the Yukon trail towards a group of men during the second gold rush. The man is accompanied only by a wolf-dog. He is warned by an older, wiser man that he should not travel the trail without a companion. The man is stubborn and tells that man he will be all right. Although the man is naive and alone, he is positive that he will be fine as long as…

Have you ever thought nature and the events happening around you are shaping and determining your life? This was the thought presented in American literature during the Naturalism movement. Naturalism was a literary movement from 1865 to 1915 in which authors wrote how the natural forces of this earth, such as environmental and social conditions, shape people’s lives. One example of literature from this time period is Jack London’s “To Build a Fire”. In this short story, the setting, themes, and…

In The Call of the Wild, by Jack London it is about a dog buck and his adaptation in nature after he is taken from his home and put in the wild to be put to work on a sled dog team. He learns lessons on to live and survive in the wild and live a new life. When working a a team manny qualities and traits such as being able to work with others and how you fit in in our role. In order to get a large goal done you need to work as a team. In the novel the Call of the Wild by Jack London, the idea…

More importantly, this short story reflects what London learned in the Yukon Territory. The story started off as an unnamed man leaves the Yukon Trail at an extremely cold winter morning and hoped to rejoin his associates at a mining camp later that evening, where a nice fire and tasty bacon are awaiting him. The only companion the man has along the way was a large native husky dog, which was described to be more like a wolf. This husky was reluctant to travel with the man in the extreme cold…

“But he was thrown down and choked repeatedly, till they succeeded in filing the heavy brass collar from off his neck.” This quote and essay proves how adaptation is the key to survival. In the classic novel Call Of The Wild, A dog named Buck had to learn that adaptation is the key to survival by getting dog-napped, beaten, and upholding his rank in the dog sled pack. For Buck, it was hard to survive in the wild with all its threats. In the beginning of this book, Buck “lived the life of a…

He recalls the old-clock from Sulfur Creek who had cautioned him that no man ought to go in the Klondike alone when the temperature was fifty degrees underneath zero. The man unfastens his cold sandals, however before he can cut the solidified strings on them, clusters of snow from the spruce tree above tumble down and snuff out the fire. In spite of…

The Yukon. Where only the strongest and smartest will survive. The American Eskimo, or Eskie, is a type of Spitz that is originally a companion dog but has the competency to survive in harsh climates. Climates with rigid weather ranging from 36.1 C. to -60 C. The Eskie would suit life in Yukon, Alaska because of its qualities and characteristics, although some may argue that the American Eskimo would not survive. First, the American Eskimo has a plethora of qualities that would help it…