The Yukon Trail

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

who is kidnapped and taken to Klondike, Yukon, in northwest Canada. He is the perfect dog for pulling heavily loaded sleds in the cold, wintery climate. There are many themes in this book, but the one that stands out the most is suffering. First of all, they suffered from the harsh wilderness. The weather was a very big factor in the team’s suffering. The air was frigid and the dogs had to learn how to keep themselves warm whether it was on the trail or at camp. They also had to keep their

famous short story, To Build a Fire, tells of a man that finds himself in the Yukon territory in North America making his way past a lonesome path that leads him to death. This short story makes one reflect on the foundations and instincts of the man and the dog who had accompanied him. The story shows how the man’s attitude changes as he keeps going down the snowy trail. How he begins as a confident traveler of the Yukon and ends up “running around like a chicken with its head cut off,” (London, 1908

speculatively. There was a sharp, explosive crackle that startled him.” In this quote from page two, he describes the sound of his spit freezing and then falling to the floor. Thus, “Crackle” is a form of onomatopoeia. How many miles is the entire main Yukon trail

Jack London's To Build a Fire In his short story entitled "To Build a Fire," Jack London portrays a bitter conflict between man and nature. The nature in this story is the harsh environment of the Yukon Trail. London chose to use nature as the antagonist, almost as a force working against the main character in his struggle for survival. London accomplished this personification of nature by giving the environment many human characteristics, by creating numerous things

of the Wild and To Build a Fire have many similarities and differences. Call of the Wild is about a dog abducted and sold to a sled team. To Build a Fire is about a man trying to make a journey in below zero weather. Both of them take place in the Yukon. Both stories have similarities, such as natural instincts and perseverance shown through their characters, however, they differ in the character’s motives and the struggles that they face. Both Call of the Wild and To Build a Fire show natural instincts

by Jack London. To Build a Fire is about a man hiking in the Yukon with only a dog to accompany him. The man finds himself in a perilous situation as the cold attempts to take his life. The man is unsuccessful in building a fire and perishes. Critical Evaluation Of Work To Build a Fire accurately shows that lack of vision leads to destruction. Jack London, the author, writes, “But all this – the mysterious, far reaching hairline trail, the absence of the sun from the sky, the tremendous cold, and

The short story “To Build a Fire”, written by Jack London, is about a unnamed man who travels through a trail near the main Yukon trail in order to meet up with some friends at a camp. His first self-deception when he convinces himself that the harsh winter weather cannot affect him. From the beginning he clearly shows that he is not worried by the weather. “In all his actions, the man exercises only intellectuality--he thinks about the temperature in terms of degrees Fahrenheit, for instance, a

This story took place in the Yukon during the great Klondike Gold Rush when around 100.000.00 people migrated to Canada Yukon territory looking for fortune. Many of the immigrants have no idea how brutal their lives would become. A newcomer of the area, along with his dog decided to get to a mining camp where he will have a meeting with some friends. Before starting the journey, and old man advise him that no one should go alone to the Yukon; even the dog knew that it was too cold to travel far.