Pike's Peak Gold Rush

First Peoples of the Klondike Gold Rush, the Tr'ondek Hwech'in The Tr'ondek Hwech'in were the first peoples to occupy the valley at the confluence of the Klondike and Yukon Rivers, now known as Dawson City. This area is known as being the centre of the Klondike Gold Rush of 1896, and to this day is subjected to vast amounts of mining, gold exploration, and environmental…

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…

My first heart break was a result of writing my first narrative essay. I was in 5th grade and we were learning about the Gold Rush of 1849. We were told to write a story, in first person, about what the long journey may have been like for a child traveling with their family to California in hopes of “striking it rich.” The title of my essay was “Kitty’s Dream” but it turned out to be more of a nightmare for me. I was excited to do this homework. I had a whole week to finish this assignment…

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…

“To Build a Fire” by Jack London is an American short story that is about a man that goes out into the freezing cold Yukon, Alaska. Jack uses many literary tools throughout his story. The best ones that he used throughout his story is setting, imagery, and point-of-view. “London emphasizes the existential theme in “To Build a Fire” in several ways, the most important of which is his selection of the setting in which the story takes place.” (lonestar.edu). The story is set in Yukon, Alaska,…

The word "iceberg" is most likely a Dutch term "ijsberg," which translates to ice mountain; only one-eighth of the mass can be seen above the surface of the water ("Iceberg Facts"). Iceberg also refers to a theory/style of writing in which the vast majority of the story is not read in black in white but inferred and hidden throughout the writing. Ernest Hemingway was famous for the style, and it can be seen throughout, “Now I Lay Me” a short story about a religious man during The Great War who…

Mother of the Pack In Justin Torres’ We the Animals, Ma is a major character that frequently gets dominated and oppressed from either her husband, Paps or the boys. Like a wolf pack, the boys are extremely high maintenance, constantly craving attention and following their father, the alpha male. Inevitably, Ma gets left behind and trampled on. The males of the family’s abuse deteriorate Ma into the shell of a woman, frequently unstable and manipulated. Throughout the novel, Ma’s role as a…

Perseverance is necessary to grow up and overcome difficult and grueling challenges. In Call Of The Wild Buck was snatched out his lazy lifestyle and forced to face bitter cold. Hard Work, and Vicious dogs. Unlike many adults, My father lived around the globe, served in the army, and had a heart attack, which sometime called for perseverance and determination. Even though physically my father and Buck differ, they still had to go through tough challenges and issues. Everyone is different, But…

Have you ever wondered what it is like to travel in extremely cold temperatures on a gray, cold, Yukon Trail, at nine o’ clock at night, just you and your dog? In the short story To Build a Fire that could give you a glimpse of it would be like. To Build a Fire is a story of a man’s incapability of attempting to travels through ten rough miles of Yukon Wilderness in the Yukon Trail in Alaska. Not only is this place beyond freezing, but it is exactly 75 degrees below zero. The man has his route…

Character Analysis: I Am David Escaping a prison camp, teaching himself to read Italian from a newspaper, and climbing a mountain in the middle of a blizzard when he was half starved! Do you think you could do these amazing things? Well they are all things the character David did in the novel I am David, written by Anne Holm. The character David is a very courageous boy. At one point in this intriguing novel (pg.107), he finds himself watching three Italian children playing a game they…