The Yukon Trail

“Only those who adapt to changing circumstances can survive.” The book shows the theme development in many ways. Those ways are: setting, plot, and characters. To start off, The Call of the Wild shows the theme by using setting. For example, in the Yukon Territory, there was a gold rush. The gold rush caused dogs to be in demand, which caused Buck to be stolen. Because Buck was stolen, he had to learn how to survive in the changing environment. Another example of setting is when Buck was kidnapped

nature versus man. It is set in the Yukon Trail during the winter time. London took part in the Klondike Gold Rush which gave him the inspiration to write “To Build a Fire”. The one major character that the story focuses on is the unnamed man. The unnamed man is a protagonist in the story. The man’s character is revealed through his looks, thoughts, and actions. The unnamed man’s looks give readers a sense of who the character is. The man is traveling through the Yukon Trial to a campsite in Henderson

short story, “To Build a Fire,” a man attempts to reach his destination across the Yukon wilderness. The cold and wintery setting is used to create the conflict of whether the man will make it to the campsite and transitions the mood from calm and uncaring to fearful. It also manages to convey the message that overzealousness can lead to failure. The setting of “To Build a Fire,” the cold and desolate outdoors of the Yukon, is the key driving factor of the conflict. The man struggles time and time again

Jack London's to build a fire illustrates strong forms of naturalism in the journey of a man and his dog through frozen tundra of the Yukon valley. The story tells the tale of a newcomer to the Yukon as he travels an a cold early morning. He was forewarned of the danger of traveling alone but chooses to regardless. This is simply because “he was without imagination”(3), meaning he was aware that it was cold and he was supposed to travel with a group, but he lacked the imagination to realize why

bath-tub larger than boat which here rode upon the sea. These waves were most wrongfully and barbarously abrupt and tall, and each froth-top was a problem in small boat navigation” (Crane pg.584). In To Build a Fire the main character is hiking on the Yukon trail. “Day

Out There: A Voice From The Wild Book Review Out There tells a pensive, thought provoking and immersive story of being outdoors. In it, author Chris Townsend fleshes out his 40 year experience of climbing mountains and walking cross-country. It's the stuff that dreams are made of -- at least by travel junkies and myself. That said, Out There is very much an approachable book. Most other outdoors books are usually bogged-down by technical mumbo-jumbo and humblebrag feats of conquest. On the other

tell you risk is something you don’t want to take. Risk is something no one - not even those who persevere through it - wants to take. Some people take on more risks than others. In The Call of the Wild, Buck is a Southland dog forced into the wild Yukon and he never knows which day will be his last. At the same time, my great-grandmother had to live, scared of being killed every day as a Jew in Nazi Germany. However, both Buck and my great-grandmother took those risks and came out on top. No matter

London not only uses the wild nature of dogs but also uses human’s wild instinct. In his stories of “War,” and “To the Wisdom of the Trail,” London uses the brutalness of natural intuition to show survival of the fittest. In the story “War,” a scout lets an enemy scout live, just to be killed by that same scout. This is ironic, and London uses this irony to show that humans are willing to kill when their own life is in peril. The need to survive is a very crucial piece of this story, and the narrator

to a dog that has retrogressed to a more primitive state during the Yukon Gold Rush. Buck who eventually answered the call of the wild had to go through many difficulties to get there.The theme power of the primitive is reinforced by the retrogression of a dog despite the love of mankind. Soon after his arrival, Buck was able to quickly experience the power of the primitive state while he was with Francois and Perrault in the Yukon. Francois and Perrault worked for the Canadian Government and used

setting - their physical setting, to be exact. (This might actually be from part of Jack London’s experiences, when he went to the Yukon to search for gold. This sentence seems kind of out of place. What do you think? )Both Buck and the unnamed man are set into a hostile, foreign environment (which one goes first, hostile or foreign?) full of biting coldness and rough trails. “Another lesson. So that was the way they did it, eh? Buck confidently selected a spot, and with much fuss and waste effort proceeded