The Yukon Trail

collect gold to support their families however tons of them were uneducated about the treacherous journey that awaits them ahead. In my opinion it’s not worth and i wouldn’t have gone to the Yukon because it only one misstep could lead to your snowy grave. However, thousands and thousands of people went to the Yukon in Alaska to get gold that was believed to have been everywhere but it was actually quite hard to get enough gold for even 4 dollars. Many people would travel by horse or an animal but most

The United States purchased Alaska from the Russian Empire on March 30, 1867 for 7.2 million U.S. dollars. Alaska became a U.S. territory on May 11, 1912 and gained statehood on January 3, 1959. After the United States’ purchase of Alaska from Russia, controversy stirred as to the official boundary between Canada and the United States. The boundary separating the two countries was only vaguely defined at the time. The territory dispute dates back to 1821 between Russian and the British Empire, before

Mother nature An American Bishop, John Shelby Spong, once proclaimed, “ Nature is not sweet”. Indicating that mother nature is an unpredictable force, that even man can not control. The man struggled to survive in the brutal Klondike/Yukon winter, even though he could have lived if he had listened to the old timer, instead, he believed that he could overcome the cold without help and ended up losing his life. In the story, “ To Build a Fire”, by Jack London, he uses naturalism to support Darwin’s

Prompt I The story “To Build a Fire,” by Jack London, is set in a freezing Yukon and he uses the descriptive language to give a glance into the harsh weather which in return, gives the plot better understanding.. The choice, I believe, is to give a mood that would allow the setting to develop slowly with anticipation. London gives a dogs instinct that like a dog it can since danger nearby. The main character is new to the Yukon and because of this, even though his instinct is to stop and turn around

“To Build a Fire” by Jack London is about a man fighting against nature for his life. The story is set on the Yukon Trail in Alaska during a harsh winter. The main character has recently moved to Alaska, so this is his first experience with an Alaskan winter. Throughout the story, the man is traveling on the Yukon in bitter cold and life threatening conditions with no companion other than a dog. The story allows the reader to follow the emotions and thoughts of a man freezing to death. The detailed

Fire” by Jack London shows how man vs. nature and how inexperienced traveler in the Yukon tries to travel alone with his dog, even though it’s advised not to. Yet he is stubborn and thinks he is right, and sets off for Henderson Creek to meet his friends. He faces many different conflicts of man verses man, and man verses nature. The traveler is advised not to make this trip with the lack of his inexperience in the Yukon due to the weather, the incoming storm, and its advisories. With the subzero freezing

To Build a Fire Summary: The narrative “To Build a Fire”, written by Jack London, starts off with a man who recently moved to the Yukon and is experiencing his first winter. He was headed to the old camp on Henderson Creek to meet his friends. Following him was a grey coated wolf dog. He continued on the trail for one hour and then decided to take a break for lunch. His face started to freeze and his nose was numb. The man ends up falling into deep snow. The man gets up and starts to build a fire

Jack London author of the short story: “To Build a Fire,” tells this story from a third person omniscient narration stance. The setting of this story takes place turned aside from the main Yukon trail: an unnamed man and his big native husky dog. The man is a “newcomer in the land, a chechaquo” experiencing his first winter and set out to meet his boys at the camp. It’s fifty degrees below zero and cold, so cold that the man spats, and there’s an “explosive crackle that startled him. He spat again

I chose this primary source because it kind of relates to the Klondike Gold Rush and the short story To Build a Fire took place during the Klondike Gold Rush. In the article the primary object was to find out if pack trail or a wagon road would meet the requirements. In the short story To Build a Fire the primary object was for the man and his dog to survive the severe cold winter without any shelter or food. The rush to Canada’s Klondike region began a year after steamships loaded with prospectors

The setting acts as an antagonist to the man because it creates conflict, man versus nature, and is partially the cause of the man’s death. The brutal and harsh conditions of the Yukon works against the man in almost every way possible. In the story, the man gets his feet wet and struggles to build a fire (Line 255). The gradual freezing and numbing of his body begins which will eventually lead to his inevitable death. 7.) One mistake that the man makes is that he builds a fire underneath the spruce