An Analysis Of May Kellogg Sullivan's 'Klondike Gold Rush'

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Finding gold is extremely difficult, especially if you don’t know what you’re doing or where you’re going. In the “Klondike Gold Rush” the author uses third person omniscient for the reader to understand the difficulty of the miners’ trip to the Yukon. In “A Women Who Went to Alaska”, May Kellogg Sullivan uses third person limited so the reader can understand how the miners were affected by the governments harsh rules. In the excerpt “Klondike Gold Rush”, Gordon Stables explains the miners’ experience of voyaging to the Yukon hoping to return with bags of gold. The way the author provides the information is so that the reader can fully understand how harsh the trip was for so little in return. “Many Miners lost their lives or their possessions