The Yukon lay a mile wide and hidden under three feet of Which facts about the Yukon gold rush connect to the
ice. On top of this ice were as many feet of snow. It was ideas in this excerpt from "To Build a Fire"? Check all
all pure white, rolling in gentle undulations where the ice that apply.
jams of the freeze-up had formed. North and south, as
far as his eye could see, it was unbroken white, save for Prospectors traveled along the Yukon River
a dark hairline that curved and twisted from around the
Winters in the Yukon were snowy
spruce-covered island to the south, and that curved and w
twisted away into the north, where it disappeared behind Some prospectors died from the cold
another spruce-covered island.
-"To Build a Fire." The gold rush started in 1897.
Jack London The Yukon territory was sparsely populated

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themes and meanings

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there are two central themes in  the miracle worker: that the human spirit can triumph over even the most daunting of disabilities and that a dedicated teacher can transform the lives of those with whom he or she comes into contact. these inspirational themes have long been personified in the widely known true-life relationship between helen keller and annie sullivan, but  the miracle worker  also dramatizes collateral issues that extend beyond the particular case. underlying helen’s process of learning basic principles of what annie terms “obedience” (decorum, etiquette, and hygiene), there are more universal lessons of self-governance—the inculcation of self-restraint instead of willfulness, the development of self-discipline instead of self-indulgence. only when these lessons have been mastered can helen begin to acquire language—which, annie says, “is to the mind more than light is to the eye.”