The Yukon Trail

Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe and “A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty. The settings used in these stories set the reader’s mood. A good writer’s depiction of setting puts the reader right into the story. “To Build a Fire” by Jack London takes place on a trail in the Yukon. This setting is vital to the story because nature, the cold and the snow become the the main character’s worst enemy. Nature is flatly indifferent to mankind’s survival. The cold will not change because of man nor does it care

I want you to swear that, foul or fair, you’ll cremate my last remains”(line 24). The Speaker, knowing the harsh and surreal code of the klondike, wandered on through the cold to fulfill his promise. “Now a promise made is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code, In the days to come, though my lips were dumb, in

takes place in the 1980’s Klondike gold rush. It tells the story of a wolf named White Fang, who is three-fourths wolf and one-fourth dog, and was born in the wild, but was brought into a village at a young age. White Fang is then brought to Fort Yukon by his current master Grey Beaver, and White Fang starts to fight the new found dogs that come off the boat for fun. Beauty Smith, a man who is very mean and very ugly, wants to buy White Fang from Grey Beaver because of White Fang’s ferociousness

reins, of course, unlike the literal reins Bill Steyer has held in the past as a competitive sled dog musher. Steyer finished the Iditarod Trail sled dog race in 2005, covering close to 1,000 miles in a little more than 12 days. Although the Iditarod is the more prominent event, Steyer said his personal highlight as a musher was a fifth-place finish at the 2003 Yukon Quest, another 1,000-mile race, that took 11 days. However, his list of highlights coaching the Homer cross country and track teams is

about Santiago, an old fisherman who sets out one day and catches the fish of a lifetime. Santiago then spends multiple days fighting the fish in the middle of the ocean. “To Build a Fire” is about a nameless traveler who goes hiking on a trail out in the Yukon with his dog to make it to his base camp. He hikes in fifty below weather and have literally walked on thin ice to make it to his destination safely. Despite being from different stories in different settings, both men share similarities while

The Gold Rush in the Yukon and Alaska has the need for big strong dogs who will be able to pull sleds. Buck a large dog living at the home of Judge Miller in Santa Clara, California he is exactly what the people want. He is an animal with human like things like intelligence, and strength. So far he has enjoyed his life with the nature stroll or a hunting trip. Manuel a gardener's helper with a thing for gambling and a need for money. He is given to a saloon keeper and transported by a train north

against the unforgiving force of nature. He fruitlessly tries to warm himself back up, which is a direct contrast to the complete indifference displayed by Yukon. The environment merely remains the same and does not care one way or another as to whether the man survives or not. Jack London also uses numbers to reinforce the harsh realities of the Yukon, such as how fifty degrees below zero is the marker for the danger zone. The use of numbers shows the desperation of the Man’s situation and readers can

To Build A Fire Genre: Adventure This short story is of the adventure genre. In the short story, the man is trekking through the Yukon wilderness and trying to survive even though nature is against him. A passage from the story that shows this is the adventure genre is: “This dark line was the trail—the main trail. It led south 500 miles to the Chilcoot Pass, and salt water. It led north 75 miles to Dawson, and still farther on to the north a thousand miles to Nulato, and finally to St. Michael

critiques the relationship between humans and nature, as humans try to prevail as superior. In the short story, a man begins a trek in weather that is fifty degrees below zero in search of his friends. He is in an area that he has never been before, Yukon, Alaska. He was warned by a local to not take this journey alone and in this weather, but the man just ignores the locals advice. While on the journey he is encountered by a husky, who seems to be depressed and cold due to the weather. The man stops

Garrett Wight Prof. Ian Storey English 101 28 October 2015 The Unnamed Man’s Imminent Downfall Some people tend to not look at the entire picture when evaluating another person and depicting their personality and attitude. While evaluating the man in “To Build a Fire” that was traveling to “the boys”, it can be inferred that he had many flaws in his personality and in his attitude (London 549). Others might have been blinded by the other pieces of evidence suggesting he was a hero, an intelligent