How London's Lessons Learned In The Yukon Trail

More importantly, this short story reflects what London learned in the Yukon Territory. The story started off as an unnamed man leaves the Yukon Trail at an extremely cold winter morning and hoped to rejoin his associates at a mining camp later that evening, where a nice fire and tasty bacon are awaiting him. The only companion the man has along the way was a large native husky dog, which was described to be more like a wolf. This husky was reluctant to travel with the man in the extreme cold weather, but decided to follow the man and hoped that he will make frequent stops to make a warm fire to keep them both warm. The hike was described to be at least nine hours. This had portrayed a tough and strong image of the man to the readers since he decided to go alone on this nine …show more content…
More importantly, the man had used all of its matches for starting a fire. With no matches left for fire and heat, the man decided to run towards the mining camp without knowing how many hours he has left on the hike, his body started to warm up at first and eventually he exhausted his body and could no longer move. He lay down on the snow and realized that he will never make it to the camp, so he decided to die in the cold with dignity. Before his death, he reminisces the knowledge from the old man telling him not to travel alone in the cold weather and acknowledge that he is an idiot who ignored his advice which could have saved his own life. The readers can observe a set of struggles from this man in this short story. His struggle to make a fire in the extreme cold, his struggle to keep warmth, and his struggle to stay alive in the end. The outcome [death] of these struggles reveals to the readers that the man is an ignorant individual who neglected the wise words from the old man instead of a strong tough individual who decided to challenge the trail in the cold by