The Yukon Trail

it shows how life was in the old day. How dogs had to fight for their lives. Also how people would use dogs as transportation. The novel The Call of the Wild takes place in the Yukon territory, which is between Alaska and Canada. The Klondike gold diggers kidnapped dogs and used them as sled dogs to travel around Yukon territory. The setting affects the story because it is in winter, the dogs get cold easily, and they often don’t give them food. When the dogs do receive food, it isn’t at all…

natural disasters, violent weather, and extreme temperature. People are the true victims and nature the real villain. Jack London depicts nature as the antagonist in his short story "To Build a Fire", which follows a man's trek through the frigid Yukon. A struggle for survival immediately replaces the man’s original mission for lumber. Throughout the text, London's describes…

The Snowball Effect of Poor Decision Making Throughout life, we fall into circumstances where we had an outside influence from others stating what to do, and we decided not to adhere to the advice given to us. No matter how hard one tries to get something done on their own, in certain circumstances, it is a necessity to trust the wisdom and the words of others. Different experiences within life may guide us towards gaining wisdom. We cannot base every situation that we encountered with…

Not only was Buck taken from his leisurely life in california and thrown into the Yukon as a sled dog, but he is also forced to fight for survival everyday of it. The Call of the Wild by Jack London. In the fictional story The Call Of The Wild by Jack London, Buck is a normal dog living a laid back life with his master Judge Miller when a greedy gardner kidnaps him and sells him to a gold miner in the Yukon as a sled dog. Bucks only hope for survival is to have faith in his masters and embrace…

The death and way of life of the iceman is still a mystery to us historian, but we have a few possible theory's of "where he was going?", "where he was coming from?", "how he died?", "why he was in the alps along the Austro-Italian border?". The iceman was going to go fight a war between two societies, including his own, fighting for land. Neither society knew the other existed until they ventured out beyond the village borders. The iceman was living in a house made of wooden logs, mud, sticks,…

Where the Red Fern Grows is a very captivating story no-matter how it is told. Because of this, those who fancy the story found different ways to share it with others. So, the movie was created as a mimic of the original book. Through this essay I will describe a few of the differences and similarities between the book and movie version of this enthralling heart squeezing story. First, in the original book, Billy won the hunting competition with his dogs. He went hunting and soon after heading…

I chose my states location based off a place I think has a lot of natural beauty and also a lot of history. I broke down the questions given to me and also added in some of my own, I answered them all individually to try and illustrate the full functionality of my conceptual state and its capitol. To give a general idea of where my state is located, it is on the west coast and is the northern part of California and also includes the southern portion of Oregon. I have included a map with the…

Ordeal by Hunger, written by George R. Stewart, expediently illustrates the extreme conditions that the Donner Party had to endure in order to survive and conquer the drastic expedition that was embedded with adversity and death. It (the novel) tells the tale of the ill-fated pioneers while simultaneously epitomizing the great lengths that some will go to, and the sacrifices some will have to make, at the mercy of survival. Stewart was an American historian, and an English Professor (among many…

alone. He was not smart about going into the wild alone because he didn’t listen to the man about if it is below -50 degrees, to go with a partner. He was very inconsistent about his knowledge about the cold. He is making a nine hour trek across the Yukon with only his dog in the bitter cold. One way he was erratic in his decision was even when it was gloomy, bitter, numbing cold, the man is not worried. How could you not be worried if your hands/feet are numb? Everybody and I…

in the wilderness is developed through the man’s responsibility of his own fate by making instinctive decisions and by underestimating nature’s power. When the man starts his journey, he makes INSTINCITIVE DECISIONS to travel light through the cold Yukon weather. The man plans to travel a nine hour trip with only his dog, to which he has no relationship with, light clothing, and biscuits. “That man from Sulphur Creek had spoken the truth when telling how cold it sometimes got in the country.” He…