Summary Of Dead Of Winter: The Donner Party

David Ives’ “The Blizzard” does a good job of making people analyze their selves and their everyday life. His drama has the capabilities of making people ask many questions about themselves. Why do I follow a routine? Why do I settle for the same things over and over again? How do I break this cycle? What could I be doing differently with my life? It makes many people realize just how routine oriented they are. It also brings to light the fear and unwillingness to change that some people have.

With all these travelers from the east and different country made California a “melting pot” of different people and culture. When news that California that had gold began to spread outside of the United State it first hit Mexico and Hawaii lead to the first wave of immigrants with the purpose of mining. Then, news the quickly across the world from South America to Europe and from Australian to Asian, the impact was so big that the text said, “Irish immigration to the United States, already at 100,000 a year in 1847, more than double to 220,000 by 1851” (Gillon, 297). With all these people mining towns would quickly pop up across California, and these towns with every race you could think such as Black, French, Irish, Chinese, Mexican, and etc. The towns were constantly busy with people moving to and from mine and rivers. With a day or a week of work could make you a nice amount of profit, you could entertain yourself for a while before you had to go back to mining with bars, gambling parlors, and whore house. Prostitutes made good money because in text said that, “ One prostitute in California Boasted of making more than $50000in a year.” (Gillon, 297). I could imagine myself being there if I made it there.

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In the spring of 1846 a group of 87 people would leave their homes and head west in the hope and promise of free land. This group of 87 individuals would later be known as the infamous “Donner Party” (McGill). The Donner Party consisted of the Donner family and the Reed family. Led by George Donner, this group of pioneers, like many other groups, were exceedingly eager to make it to California, but unlike the other groups the Donner Party planned to take a short cut. “This short cut was known as ‘Hastings Cutoff’, which was made

The play Snow in Midsummer, written in 1241 by Guan Hanqing created a type of theatre known as zaju. With the available sources on Hanqing’s most pronounce play written, he managed to accomplish significant meaning of Death. The play demonstrates the central theme of death during the execution of Dou E, she made three vows: First, if she is innocent, the execution will cause the blood to not be spilled on the white cloth; second, the three feet snow will cover her body; third, after her death, there will be three successive years of drought, to prove that she is unjustly dead. Dou Yi’s death symbolizes Confucius beliefs through sacrificing herself, rather than to give harm to her mother-in-law. She is willing to die in order to confront the unjust social system. In the play Snow in Midsummer, death functions as a way to achieve justice, life is the most precious aspect for a human being, but why is the character Dou Yi willing to sacrifice her own life to accomplish this task?

Throughout their journey, the Donner Party faced many challenges that they had to overcome in order to continue on to California, and also to keep them alive. One problem the donner party faced was crossing mountains and deserts to get to California. It was hard for wagons to get passed.They fixed this problem by some taking an alternative route to California, but Mr. Reed and other friends did not listen to this idea and decided to face the mountain and desert with the wagons. Another problem they faced was thunderstorms occurring during the spring season. The road became muddy and was very difficult for cattle and wagons to get through it. Resulting in this, people had to walk and crawl to allow cattle to pull quicker and get through the

The Donners made a lot of poor decisions each one affected their outcome. For example, some of the biggest mistakes made in their journey was choosing poor guides, delaying their trip to stop and rest,and they did not pack enough supplies for their long journey. The Donner Party was a wagon party traveling westward. The Donner Party was a on a journey heading west in the spring of 1846 from Springfield, Illinois. The Party was led by Jacob and George Donner. The brothers decided to take the so called shortcut Hastings passage. The Party was forced to resort to cannibalism while they were trapped in the mountains snow all around them. They were forced to eat the dead bodies of their friends and family. The poor decisions made throughout the journey westward substantially contributed problems that occurred and what eventually led to the failure of the journey to the

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The Donner Party was a group of American pioneers that set out for California, on their journey they took a "short cut" that was meant to cut time and distance. Their trip was delayed by a series of mistakes and they were forced to spend the winter trapped in the mountains. Only a portion of the group survived the harsh winter months and they did so by resorting to cannibalism. Nearly two centuries after that event, we can learn that the American dream can only be achieved through sound decision making. While the Donner party made various mistakes on the trail, their biggest mistake was trying to take a short cut through an unknown territory. Thousands of people had achieved their American dream in the Western United

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At Fort Hall, Captain Imus hired Caleb Greenwood, then eighty-three, to guide the party into California. Greenwood (1763–1850) had trapped west of the Rocky Mountains since the 1820s and had guided the 1844 Stephens-Townsend-Murphy Party. On that earlier journey, Greenwood’s emigrants—with help from a Paiute they called “Chief Truckee” —blazed a new Sierra crossing over Donner Pass.

In 1846 some people, led by George Donner, and James F. Reed moved west to California for a better life. On the way, they took a shorter way across the Great Salt Lake Desert called the “Hasting’s Cutoff”. This being a terrible idea, they were slowed down, and had to spend winter in the Mountains. Once they made it out of the desert, the group began crossing the Sierra Nevada mountains. A huge storm hit and the group decided to split into two camps, one at Donner Lake, and one at Alder Creek Valley. Another big mistake. Food began to run out, and they had already eaten most of their animals. 15 of the emigrants started over the mountains to bring help. They were called the “Forlorn Hope” group. Seven made it to California alive. Along the

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