...Once upon a time gold was what makes the world go round, it made people greedy, hungry for more, and certainly it drove them to want more and to do crazy things for more. Gold was such a big part of life in the late 1800s through the early 1900s, and there were two main places for gold mining in America; California (there were major gold rushes in California through the mid 1900s) and Alaska, more specifically the Yukon Territory. The Alaska Gold Rush of the late 1800s was one of the major gold rushes in U.S. history. There was one main area in Alaska, where the major discoveries were made, the Klondike River, more specifically Bonanza Creek (University 1). Bonanza Creek was a tributary of the Klondike River and a hot spot for gold mining (University 1). Also, this creek was home to the first discovery of the entire rush. There were many towns during the gold rush that became modern day cities: including modern day cities such as Vancouver, Edmonton, and Seattle. The city to make the least profits during the rush was Seattle. Seattle made only over one million dollars and it was the least productive city. Seattle acquired its small scale empire by doing one thing, selling supplies to prospectors, but unfortunately for the citizens of Seattle their mayor, S.D. Wood, ditched town because he wanted to keep some of the riches for himself (Libraries 1). Vancouver, a once small Canadian town doubled its population during the rush. The most profitable city was...
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...famous books, Call of the WIld and White Fang, he writes about the Klondike Gold Rush. The main characters in both novels are dogs. One learning to survive in the wilderness and one learning to adapt to domestication. This theme supports London’s notorious writing style about the wild. His choice to write about such events in these area and time specific settings can be traced to his childhood growing up in the middle of the Yukon Gold Rush himself. Jack like any author uses his prior experiences as a platform for his writing. What I think makes London’s tone and voice in writing these books so fascinating and successful is the detail in which he writes to convey his setting to the reader. He so accurately describes the feel of the air and the silence of the day along with the beauty of the sky to bring and mental image to anyone’s mind. This keeps the reader intrigued and interested along with a clear vision of an American habitat. This vision of Northern American tundra is crucial to the draw of the novels and short stories London writes because it does convey American culture and and the living conditions of the Great North. London cultivates his novels and short stories around these settings and they are the reason his writing was and still is so popular. Thus this prestigious American writer did not only reveal to a world the wonders of the North but also captivated their interest in the strive for gold in the early 1900’s. Using a wondrous way of description along with...
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...Abstract The research aims to understand the great human values expressed through works of short story "Love of Life"by Jack London - a major authors of modern literature. Through the research process, we not only found a deep insight of life of Jack lonlon toward life and people, but also discovered the harsh struggle, to find the intense human value Hidden deep within the noble work. I. Introduction 1.1. Reason for study With this work , we have the opportunity to explore the short story genre with detailed castings, large capacity and style have many implications, giving depth of work that hard to say. Not everyone has experienced the brink of life and death so this research is the logical choice 1.2. Purpose and aim of study The purpose of this research was to understand profoundly the meaning of life , Survival battle between man and wolf in the love life is intense, but it appears much simpler than the struggle that find out yourself, just how to get rid of social ties Unfortunately, that was re-created by human. The truth value of the first affordable life is the truth value of each individual life? Go find it, as we seek answers to these questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Where will we go ? to uncover the nature world around him, and discovered a conflict can not be overcome, a conflict can not be explained by the management and victory his philosophical theories. Death is the only salvation. There is even a despicable other world...
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...state at the time, believed that Alaska was nothing but a barren ice block. However Seward knew what the new American frontier was actually like, mountain ranges, dazzling bays, lush forests and only in the upper quarter of Alaska was the barren frozen wasteland everyone expected. Seward knew that in this territory twice the size of France there had to be some useful resources from it (Gold 80). Seward was right, the territory already had an abundance of timber, a wealth of fisheries and fur, that could, when properly executed, could produce a healthy profit (Russell 45). Whales, more specifically, whale oil was a very important resource up until electricity and light bulbs lit up our world. Whale oil was used in virtually every oil lit lamp on the planet so when the whales would migrate north to Alaska, the valuable whale oil would be collected. These so far are only the resources Seward knew about and his intuition, or gut feeling, told him there was more to be discovered. He was correct, Alaska would soon be discovered holding oil and gold. A little more than a century later the infamous black gold would be found at Prudhoe Bay in 1968. Nine years later in 1977, after oil companies shelled out more than 900 million dollars to build the Alaskan pipeline. It’s first shipment of oil was valued at...
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...faze the man, a newcomer to the Yukon, who plans to meet his friends by six o'clock at an old claim. As it grows colder, he realizes his unprotected cheekbones will freeze, but he does not pay it much attention. He walks along a creek trail, mindful of the dangerous, concealed springs; even getting wet feet on such a cold day is extremely dangerous. He stops for lunch and builds a fire. The man continues on and, in a seemingly safe spot, falls through the snow and wets himself up to his shins. He curses his luck; starting a fire and drying his foot-gear will delay him at least an hour. His feet and fingers are numb, but he starts the fire. He remembers the old-timer from Sulphur Creek who had warned him that no man should travel in the Klondike alone when the temperature was fifty degrees below zero. The man unties his icy moccasins, but before he can cut the frozen strings on them, clumps of snow from the spruce tree above fall down and snuff out the fire. Though building a fire in the open would have been wiser, it had been easier for the man to take twigs from the spruce tree and drop them directly below on to the fire. Each time he pulled a twig, he had slightly agitated the tree until, at this point, a bough high up had capsized its load of snow. It capsized lower boughs in turn until a small avalanche had blotted out the fire. The man is scared, and sets himself to building a new fire, aware that he is already going to lose a few toes from frostbite. He gathers twigs and...
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...Jack London(1876--1916) was born in San Francisco of an unmarried mother of wealthy background, Flora Wellman. His father may have been William Chaney, a journalist, lawyer, and major figure in the development of American astrology. Because Flora was ill, Jack was raised at an early age by an ex-slave, Virginia Prentiss, who had a great influence on the boy while he grew up. At the age of fifteen he was an oyster pirate, operating his own sloop on the waters of San Francisco Bay. He went to sea, became a tramp, a fortune-seeker in the Klondike, and lived a hard and adventurous life. One of his greatest passions was the sea. In 1896, the second Gold Rush in the Arctic Region, Jack London got the news of gold in Klondike and his great adventure-lover made up his mind to boar for the Klondike. He underwent great hardships and even risked his life in the journey, yet he enjoyed his time there. The harvest was what he had experienced, heard and read during the journey. He experienced difficulties, risks and scurvy. He heard legendary stories about other prospectors and he read Spencer and Milton. The 19th century witnesses the transformation of the American society from an agricultural economy to an industrial economy. The industrialization is spreading over the west Europe and America. Many people regarded the industrialization as an enormous leap in human civilization and it certainly brought many positive effects. Such as promoted productivity, reduced costs, lowed the prices...
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...Call of the Wild. In the summer of 1903, London's novel, was published by the New York Macmillan Company. The story is set in the late 1880's in California, and later moves on to Alaska and the Klondike region of Cananda. Buck, the protagontist, is a dignified St. Bernard and Scottish shephard dog. Throughout the book, he is passed from one owner to the next. After being kidnapped from his luxurious life in Santa Clara, California, Buck is sold to a man in the red sweater. The man in the red sweater was the first person to teach Buck a "primitive law" - that Buck cannot win a fight against a man weilding a weapon. Buck's next owners were Perrault and François. These two Frenchmen worked for the Canadian government, carrying mail to different outposts. Buck's second masters in the north are Charles, Hal, and Mercedes. While they are all related, they don't make a very good team. Charles is an incompetent sled driver and continually puts himself and the dogs at risk. Hal carries weapons and mistreats the dogs, while Mercedes thinks their journey is some kind of camping trip. John Thornton, Buck's final owner, saved Buck from the cruelty of Hal. Buck is enjoying the luxurious life in Santa Clara, California when he is stolen and sold to dog traders. Before shipping Buck north to the Klondike, the dog traders teach him the importance of obedience by beating him with a club. Arriving in the chilly North, Buck is amazed by the cruelty he sees around him. After witnessing the death of...
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...born John Griffith Chaney, in San Francisco, California. London worked in the Klondike for a few years and then began to write and publish books and stories. His books became very successful which made him one of the most popular authors of the nineteenth century. Jack grew up in a hard working-class. He pretty much paved out the way for his own life and success. He rode trains, worked on oyster ships, shoveled coal, and found employment in a cannery. These experiments inspired him in writing some of his stories, as he really enjoyed to read and write at libraries in his free time. His writing career basically began in 1893, the year that he went out on a sealing voyage in which him and his crew almost got taken out by a typhoon. Jack London’s writing career started off by his mother encouraging him to submit one of his stories to one of the local newspapers for a writing contest. Jack was 17 at the time and even though he only had an eighth grade education, he had won the first prize of twenty-five dollars, and had beat college students from Stanford and Berkley. After this experience, he decided that he would begin to dedicate his life to writing short stories, but he had a difficult time finding publishers. He then enrolled at the University of California Berkeley, but only for a brief time before he traveled north to Canada to try and find at least a small fortune of gold in the Yukon Gold Rush. After returning to California, Jack was still determined to be a successful...
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...Ever wondered about the savagery of the wild? White Fang, by Jack London, gives you a glimpse into what it’s like. This book is fiction because it follows wolves and dogs and knows what they are thinking. Most of White Fang takes place in the Yukon and Northwest Territories, but toward the end of the story, the setting changes to California. The book is during the Klondike Gold Rush. White Fang is written in third person point of view. This helps with the plot because we know what everyone is thinking. The main protagonist of White Fang, is White Fang, the son of a half dog, half wolf and a full bred wolf. He had many siblings, but he was the only one who could survive the famines. White Fang is born in the wild, so he has great instincts....
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...Everyone has to Face the Wild Things can change in the blink of an eye; we adapt and change so those changes don’t bring us down. In the Call Of The Wild Buck gets taken from his home and his life changes in a flash forever, he has to change his ways of thinking to live in a new world. My aunt’s mother got divorced so she had to change her ways to survive and take care of her siblings. My aunt and Buck got taken away from their lives that they were used to and had to change and survive for the best, not just for them but for everyone around them. Seeing both of them walking down the street you would never expect the hardships they went through and this goes for anyone you would meet on the street. In The Call Of The Wild Buck gets taken from the life he's always known and has to change and adapt to this new life in a very physical way. It all started when Buck was sold to the Man in the Red Sweater by Manuel. He was beaten and broken by the man in the red sweater. When he got taken by Perrault and Francois he saw Curly get killed immediately once they got off the boat in Canada. This was when he just realized how hard his life was really going to be. However, Perrault and Francois helped learn and adapt to the cold weather and all the work. Perrault and Francois helped him get through the culture shock of going from California to Canada. Even though he had a lot of help seeing all of his teammates continuously die off one by one still affected him greatly. All these events...
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...Jack London, the writer behind the prominent and well-known story, The Call of the Wild, shows readers what it is like to survive and get through tough times. His book follows a dog named Buck, the protagonist of the story. He is taken from his home to work up north near the Klondike Mountains. Buck struggles in the freezing and blizzard-like climate, outsmarts his owners, defeats his enemies, becomes a leader, and is finally set free. With every twist and turn, the dog stood strong and powered through life with perseverance and courage. Jack London’s writing is a clear example of surviving by having determination and persistence. In the beginning of Jack London’s masterpiece, an antagonist arose. Spitz, the lead dog of Francois and Perrault’s...
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... Can someone survive a night outside, alone, and in the cold? Not without expertise in survival and their held high. In the articles “My escape from N.K.” (Article two), “Trapped” (Article two), and the news article “Can a parent get over the death of a child?” (Article three), these characters had the skills to survive. In Article one, Hyeonseo Lee has to stay determined despite all the problems that occur while she tries to save her family from the Dangers of North Korea. In Article two, Aron Ralston has to survive several nights in the cold with his hand stuck between a rock and many other problems occur. In Article three, Denice Turner has to get over her son’s death without grievance. Aron Ralston’s energy, Hyeonseo Lee’s determination, and Denice Turner’s insistence are the quantity’s it takes to be a survivor. To begin Aron Ralston is a survivor because he has ‘energy boasts’, he has emotional energy regardless of his lack of physical energy. “…Having already come to accept I will die where I stand before help arrives, now I believe I will live.” Says Ralston. Aron Ralston’s first thought in the quote being negative and most likely possible, is then ditched as Ralston then starts to rethink and he comes up with a thought that encourages him to “…now believe I (he) will live.” In this intense a boy pops in his imagination, like a mirage and Ralston believes it is his future son therefore he feels more energy and starts to believe again. “Eliminating ideas...
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...Jack london was a very self severed man. His works were mostly about what was going on and what he went through, but he would look at some of his works and put them in a different perspective like “White Fang” when he put the story in the eyes of a pup wolf that had to survive. His books are also about the wild adventures of his life everything that he went through and everyone he met. He would go off to chase a story he was always going somewhere to find adventure to live life. John London was born January 12, 1876 he was born in San Francisco, California.(2nd) Born John Griffith London in 1876, he adopted the name Jack as a adolescent.(6th) London was forced to dropout of school in the 8th grade to help out with is family to support them. He went back to high school, but he left shortly after a year of attending. He studied to pass the entrance exams for the University of California at Berkeley. London loved it at Berkeley, but only attended the University for one semester and was forced to drop out of the school because of money issues.(1st) London had two daughters from his first marriage by Bess Maddern in 1900. In 1905 he married his mistress Charmian Kittredge. Jack london did not have any other jobs while he was writing. Jack london's hobbies was farming he bought hundreds of acres of land for farming. London's greatest love of interest became agriculture. London was also a very successful in animal husbandry. As he bought all this land he was building his dream house...
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...The character quality that Buck possesses that will help him most to survive in the wild is his ability to adapt to his situation and learn from his environment. The text elaborates on this statement by stating, “[His house] was trice the heat”(London 32). This shows Buck’s adaptability because on his first night, he fabricated a way to sleep comfortably. While searching for a warm place in the snow to dig a hole, Buck found Bille, another dog, buried under the snow. Buck realized that by digging a hole in the snow, which would insulate him from the harsh environment above, he would be able to sleep in the hole for the night. Sleeping under the snow was a better alternative because before Buck dug the hole, it was too cold for him to...
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...“Trees changed, became standing figures, weeping nuns, slithering ghosts, flying dreams”, (pg.32) says Gary Paulsen in Winterdance. In the book Paulsen uses symbols and metaphors to further the reader’s experience. At the beginning of the book Paulsen lives in Minnesota and runs trapline dogs, after a run where he meets many wild animals he realizes he wants to run the Iditarod. After this Ruth (Gary Paulsen’s wife), helps him get dogs and prep for the race. The theme is the main message of a story, it’s universally understood and is always a full sentence. One theme in the book is “things are not always as they appear”, you can see this many times in Winterdance including in the chapter “Beginnings” when Paulsen and his team encountered a beaver. He thought it wouldn’t end well because beavers are quite viscous, but as it turned out neither the beaver nor the dogs lost any blood. This theme also appeared in the chapter “Don’s Cabin” when a seemingly nice man turned out to be one of the most evil characters in the book . Paulsen referred to this in the chapter “the interior” when he writes “I would never have guessed that I would see him commit murder not ten hours later.” “But it was the act of hunting that dazzled me, had me wondering about fundamental values.” (pg. 45.) A symbol is a mark, character, or in this case animal, that is used to represent something else. In Winterdance marge was a symbol. Marge was a wild wolf that Paulsen and his trapline team ran into while...
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