The Yukon Trail

Walk in the Woods Bill Bryson and his friend Kartz took a long hike on a trail called The Appalachian Trail that is two thousand miles and it wasn’t easy. They traveled through really deep snow uphills and downhills. This experience was by Bill Bryson,who made the story called “A Walk in the Woods.” Bryson created an exciting and tense mood with vivid imagery and adventurous setting used in the story. In this story Bryson uses imagery to see how the characters feel by using…

He was a big dog not ready for the Yukon he had to survive through the harshest of winters, he wasn’t fit to survive. In the novel The Call of the Wild by Jack London, One of the main characters is a saint bernard scotch-shepherd called Buck, he is a domesticated, loyal companion that becomes a wild wolf-dog. London uses the Yukon Gold Rush as the setting in the adventure story that brings man and dog closer than pulls than apart in the Yukon while trying to be fit to survive. The theme of the…

The book “Call of the Wild”, in my opinion, was an outstanding book so far. This book is about a dog named Buck who gets kidnapped from the Sun kissed Santa Clara Valley way back in fall of 1897, consequently taken to the Klondike Gold Rush. Here Buck has been sold around to be a sled dog. Buck is sold to two men named Perrault and Francois. These two men are heading towards Dawson ( a city rich in yellow metal) with a sled team of dogs. Buck was a sled dog. As you know it takes more than one…

The Klondike gold rush is about prospectors mining for gold in 1896-1899.It was in the region of Yukon in north western Canada. They lived in wooden little homes. They ate berries and other foods. They had sled dogs so they can get around easier because they had to walk in the deep snow. It was below zero degrees so they had to wear very heavy gear…

In To Build A Fire, the man’s attitude towards the land changes drastically as the situation becomes a matter of life or immediate death. In the beginning of the story, the man is very confident in his ability to survive the journey in the wilderness, despite being a chechaquo or “newcomer in the land.” (Allen et al., 2012, p. 82) He was not prepared with the necessary equipment or knowledge for this journey. He didn’t protect his cheeks or nose, which would eventually suffer from frostbite.…

Jack London's life was as rugged and adventurous as the tales he told. Born in San Francisco on January 12, 1876, he grew up in and around the docks of San Francisco and Oakland, California. At 13 he left school to help support his family. But normal occupations did not appeal to him, and he joined a gang of men who illegally caught oysters at night and sold them the next morning. At only 15 years of age, Jack London was one of the most successful oyster pirates working San Francisco Bay. London…

come over across the divide from the Indian Creek Country, while he had come the round-about way to take a look at the possibilities of getting out logs in the spring from the islands in the Yukon.” The man voluntarily left his group even though the old-timer warned him that it was dangerous to travel the yukon on his own. This shows how prideful the man actually was and later causes the man some trouble. “He had had no chance to take a bite of biscuit. He struck his fingers repeatedly and…

One of the perks of being a Pastor’s Kid that in my life time I had a chance to spend three years in Anchorage Alaska as my father was a Youth Pastor there. While Alaska is a part of the United States one of the interesting things about living there is due to it’s isolation from the lower 48 there is a difference of culture there that is not present in the lower 48. The people there have a much different life, and adapt their lifestyle to fit living up there. One of the things that every new…

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…

Arrogance is a poor trait to have. Most people would claim this statement to be true. Throughout the story “To Build A Fire” by Jack London, he uses point of view, foreshadowing, and irony to display the negative consequences of arrogance. He captures the core values of those literary devices to weave a story that demonstrates and teaches said values. The literary device point of view is a large factor in the writing style and overall flow of the story. For example, the story is told from the…