The Yukon Trail

not meant to purposefully be taken into consideration for the overall well-being of humanity, if that makes sense. The personal ideas that a man creates within his own thoughts genuinely mean nothing when compared to the actions of the cold and vast Yukon. Imagine being stuck with only the following items: a biscuit to eat, matches, and a dog. You have been left with just these three items in negative fifty degree below zero weather. When analyzing this particular situation, it is…

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…

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, one of the coldest places in North America.…

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…

Artist in Greenland Dominating the landscape is a large, shimmering iceberg, which towers over a field of snow and contrasts with a vibrant blue sky. Clustered in the foreground is a painter and his team of sled dogs, who stare at the viewer from their position on the snow and give a sense of life to the otherwise desolate, but beautiful, landscape. Painted in oils by American artist Rockwell Kent in 1935 (with the addition of several figures in 1960), Artist in Greenland is a vibrant modernist…

thrive and invited the change; other parts never had the chance to change. As more machinery was developed, common industries were greatly affected which impacted the working class. This caused many people to find new jobs; some traveled into the Yukon territory in search of gold . During this time period the population was becoming more accustomed to sedentary lifestyles, and not many people wanted to venture out into harsh conditions. In his novel The Call of the Wild Jack London explores…

Alex Ramos July 18, 2016 English 301 Professor T. Marchak Analysis to build fire Fire consuming species In the story “To Build a Fire” by Jack London he begins his fictional character in harsh elements of the winter cold. In these elements, the man is isolated from anyone. The man is attempting to reach a campsite miles away by a certain time. The cold condition causes spit to freeze before hitting the ground. None of the facts of nature seemed to worry the man. The man traveled with a…

Buck and My Father Being put into a new environment can cause you to persevere through hard times, and make new adaptations to your life. In The Call of the Wild Buck a southern dog is lacerated from his owners hands and sent north to the Yukon being required to persevere through advanced adaptations and struggles. On the contrary my Father had to adapt by changing his struggles from his old life and importing them into his newly found college life. Both my Father and Buck were forced to…

an adventure fiction story about a dog named Buck who gets taken to the Yukon at the time of the gold rush. Buck changes from a domestic pet to being a wild animal. He has many different owners over the course of the story but eventually he meets the one he loves the most, John Thornton. The theme throughout the story is survival of the fittest. Buck learned how to survive by watching other dogs. Buck first got to the Yukon he watched one of the dogs on his team get killed in a fight. “He had…

husky named Pepper are passing through Klondike Yukon.The man and the dog are traveling in the Yukon to get back to camp. On the way there the man builds a fire every few feet they travel back to camp. The man faces a few obstacles but he still manages to try and make his way back to camp.Jack London created a story called ‘’To Built a Fire’’ he made the story about a man and his husky passing through the Yukon to get back to camp.The setting in to build a fire has an impact on several parts of…