Gold Rush Essay

During Manifest Destiny, miners rushed to the West during the 1840’s and 1850’s when gold was first discovered on January 24, 1848, in Sutter’s Mill, California by James Marshall, a carpenter. Everybody wanted to make easy cash but did not realize how hard the journey and lifestyle was. When the people who survived the grueling journey arrived in California, only a few actually found gold and became wealthy. In Hollywood films, the portrayal of 49ers is mostly accurate. Yes, there are

“To Build a Fire” by Jack London, was published in 1908 and is often described as his most intriguing and evolutional pieces of work (“To Build,” Short). This story is believed to be based on his personal travels across Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush. The timing and descriptions of his experiences match up with most of the plot of the short story. Jack London was known to have a very prodigious lifestyle and to ignore harsh conditions in order to achieve his main goal, to become rich and wealthy

in this book are Buck, John Thornton, Splitz, Francois, Perrault, Hal, Mercedes, Charles, Dave, Sol- leks, Curly, Judge Miller, and Manuel. Men in 1897 during the Klondike strike had found a yellow metal in the Northland causing thousands of men to rush there, the men going to the Northlands needed heavy dogs with strong muscles. In Santa Clara Valley was a dog named Buck, Buck was this type of dog that had been on adventures and had escorted the Judge’s daughters. The Judge was at a meeting of the

     During a time when man had gold fever, and philosophical views plagued the minds of many, one man took these views and turned them into great outdoor adventures. John “Jack” Griffith London, a twentieth century author, wrote The Call of the Wild, other novels, and short stories that depict the philosophical views of the time and added adventure to them by using his own life experiences that carried thousands of men including himself to the Klondike in search of gold.      

Jack London was born in San Francisco, California in 1876 and died in 1916. Through the years of his life, he was not only a writer. He pirated for oysters, sailed in the Pacific, traveled around the country during his life, and worked in factories. He let his mind escape from being a factory worker by writing. He explored the Yukon in the winter of 1897, and began publishing Overland Monthly in 1899. Many of London's short stories became classics. Some of his stories include The Call of the

The short story to To Build a Fire by Jack Landon is a heartbreaking story of a man struggling to survive in the freezing temperatures. During the story the man made a crucial mistake and fell into the freezing water that would ultimately lead to his downfall. His journey began when he decided to go out on a hike we learned that the man himself was unworried about the cold temperatures however, the dog during the whole story seemed to foreshadow something bad was going to happen and left an uneasiness

The Call of Loyalty The Call of the Wild is a very inspirational story and there are a lot of lessons to learn. In the novel, there are lots of themes that are shown throughout the story, such as survival of the fittest, the power of instinct, power, companionship, the joy of labor, and most importantly, loyalty. Loyalty is what seems to be the most valuable and most important concept to Jack London. Loyalty is very important to the author, Jack London, because loyalty is what helped London find

“Buck stood and looked on, the successful champion, the dominant primordial beast who made his kill and found it good.”(London 48). Being ripped from his sun kissed life in Santa Clara Valley, California and forced into the life as a sled dog in Alaska and Canada, Buck learns the struggle of survival. Shown through great imagery, we see Buck transform from a family pet to a dog of the wild. In one of Jack London’s famous stories, The Call of the Wild, the story of a Saint Bernard/Scotch Shepard dog

Dogs and man have been coexisting for centuries in many different settings, both welcoming and harsh. To Build a Fire, written by Jack London, shows the thoughts of man while trying to survive in the bleak Alaskan cold. In the Call of the Wild, London embraces the instincts of sled dogs in a masterful depiction of the Alaskan wilderness. To Build a Fire and the Call of the Wild have many similarities in design but they do also have prominent differences. The freezing Alaskan wilderness is one in

puts a tragic twist on the classic tale of wilderness survival. The author’s use of imagery and detailed sentences leave readers yearning for the warmth of fire alongside the characters. The story takes place in the Yukon during the Great Klondike Gold Rush, where the author himself spent a very influential part of his young life. London’s style of writing is an exaggeration of his own experience while mining in the arctic north. In this story, Jack London writes about an inexperienced man and his dog’s