The Gold Rush

The Return Home Thorton’s command cracked out like a pistol-shot. Buck threw himself forward, tightening the traces with a clashing lunge. While the audience are in disbelief, and the bets are going up by the minute. Buck is wondering if its really happening, but he’s having weird flashbacks to the days he was living a perfect life. He was cut off by a loud shout while have these flashbacks. “BUCK ARE YOU READY” yelled Thorton, as he’s whispering slowly to him buck only hears one thing he…

The ending of “Call of the Wild” is touching and sad, especially when Buck is all alone. I don’t think Jack London would agree, but it is all about personal opinion. Buck is alone after Thornton and the rest of the sled team dies, and that is the saddest part. I believe the ending could be happy or sad, depending on how you take it, but I believe it is a sad ending. If it was happy, then why did people and dogs have to die? The ending of the book is sad for several reasons. The first reason…

Jack London’s “To Build a Fire” is a very descriptive story about a nameless name and his travels through the Yukon. The setting is a very important key element to the story. The setting and description of the cold took on a role of its own. This is a story about man verses nature. The setting plays as an antagonist to the nameless man as he fights to survive this tremendous cold. The story begins with a description, a view of the northern landscapes in the winter. It is very cold and assumed…

Beyond the Wall is a vast icy wasteland haunted with unknown terrors and secrets. There is freedom but there is a price-living is harsh, the gods are cruel, and the odds are stacked against you. Craster has mastered the art of survival in this cold wilderness and managed to carved out a place for himself and his family. He’s a shrewd and resourceful man who never shared his secret to success. Many aspects of his life remain a mystery yet one thing is certain: there is, at least, one mantle up…

One of the many themes in "Call of the Wild" is that only the fittest will survive in the wild. Many come prepared to the Klondike like John Thornton, but countless come with little knowledge and are unprepared like Hal, Charles, and Mercedes. It was obvious that the "Terrible Trio" were unprepared for the Klondike. They had a sled that was overweight which carried a tent that was dragged behind and large amounts of clothing and pots. John Thornton on the other hand came prepared, he…

In Call of the wild by jack London Buck is a dog that lived with a man named judge miller in Santa Clara Valley. And was ruler of his domain. Buck was a trustful and very helpful dog. Also he walked judge miller’s kids. Everyone trusted Buck on the farm and buck trusted everybody on the farm. And He was neither an outside dog nor an inside dog. Buck was a companion to judge miller. Buck was an l40 pound shaggy half saint Bernard and German shepherd. Buck trusted everyone on the farm. But…

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…

Dogsong by Gary Paulsen is the tale of a teenager who finds himself at an important crossroads in his life. Russel Susskit is a fourteen-year-old Eskimo boy who lives with his father. Their summers are spent in a fish-camp, and every winter they move into the village and live in a tiny government-owned house. Russel's father, once a heavy drinker, found religion some years ago after Russel's mother abandoned them and ran off with a white man. Russel does not understand his father's enthusiasm…

While To Build a Fire and The Ugly Duckling could not be less similar in regard to their storyline, they do share a common element of literature, a quest. This does not mean the quests are similar, but both the man in To Build a Fire and the duckling in The Ugly Duckling have a quest that they must attempt to complete. To Analyze Both of these stories, we must first understand the main character who is embarking on the quest. In To Build a Fire, the main character is an unnamed man who is…

Levi Talbert To Build a Fire Two perspective essay When you read the title, “To Build a Fire” it might remind you of a handbook or instruction manual. Now, this does not mean that it might be an actual manual, but that it has the potential to expand your mind; providing you with lessons on life you that you might have not expected to be exposed to. Would you consider this to be an act of fate? This particular question that this book poses, is what the author, Jack London, really wants the…