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In the adventure fiction, The Call of the Wild by Jack London, Buck, the main protagonist of the novel, goes through one of the most miserable times of his life. He is captured by Perrault and François, as both see potential in Buck as a new lead dog. However, they don't plan to just use Buck as a lead dog, they plan to put him on a grueling quest to find the Klondike region of Canada. During many points the expedition, London does something not many people do with their characters, constantly…

In the post-apocalyptic novel The Road by Cormac McCarthy, McCarthy outlines a gray desolate story about and man and his son travelling a road riddled with macabre obstacles to reach the Southern Coast. The man and the boy begin travelling because it will soon be winter, and winter will be especially inclement, the world is covered in ash, which creates a dark blanket over the Earth. For, before the birth of the boy a never identified catastrophe ravaged the earth with fire, leaving few…

On a snowy mountain top, two hikers found a body sticking out of a glacier, the Iceman. Some archaeologists say he died in battle and some say from hypothermia, but no one knows the real cause of his death. The Iceman was a mummy, whose body remained preserved for 5,000 years in a glacier in the Alps. When he was found, his items from the Stone Age were laid around him. They found unfinished arrows, backpack, a copper axe, hay stuffed shoes, a dagger, and a phannie pack like pouch on his waist.…

It is a cold night in March as walk through the Desert of Gobi. It is freezing, and my men need to rest for the night, lest they all die from exhaustion. I always thought deserts where supposed to be hot and warm! I thought all hot was lost until I noticed a large settlement in the distance. I tell my men to get up and that I have found our salvation! We then walk up to the city gates and are greeted by armed guards. The guards ask us what we are doing here. I tell them that we are travelers and…

Would You Go Into the Storm? Does the helplessness of animals bring people guilt? Maybe even give them the need to help them? In the story, "What Happened During the Ice Storm" that is exactly how a few boys had felt. The author Jim Heynen displays the story how the boys went out in the freezing cold to help pheasants that were sitting in the cold all alone. The theme the author is trying to get across is that it is human nature to protect yourself and others in stressful situations. In the…

The wind howled as the fresh white snow swirled around him. Otzi, a 5’3 man with bright blue eyes had everything he could possibly need to survive in the vast Alp Mountains. He had his first aid kit and a fanny pack with him, prepared for any type of emergency. The fanny pack contained a fire kit, flint tools, a drill, and a sewing kit. After few hours of exploring, Otzi felt a really sharp pain in the side of his body. Using the needles from the sewing kit, he created acupuncture points to help…

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…

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…

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…