The Klondike Mistake

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Imagine being a newcomer walking through a place of isolation wondering if one can survive this tremendous cold. The main character feels a little over confident, he thinks he could make it through this journey alive. The newcomer travels alone without a companion. His second mistake was when the man doesn’t pay close enough attention to the ice, he slips through and exposes his feet to the water. His last mistake was when he builds the fire under a spruce tree. Snow falls from the tree and puts the fire out. The man has no more matches. The protagonist makes three mistakes that puts him in a conflict, and there’s a lot of reasons why he did. The newcomer’s first mistake was when the man traveled through the trail alone without a companion; …show more content…

The man had made accomplishments with building the fire but he did make errors from his mistakes as well. His second mistake was when he didn’t pay attention to the ice, he slips through and exposes his feet to the water. The reason why the man made this mistake is because he was studying the creek bed and its banks, he assumed that the flow of water came from the right side. Finally, struggling to make a fire, this newcomer makes a foolish mistake that leads him into serious conflict. The man builds a fire under a spruce. The snow starts to fall from the tree and puts the fire out. This has led the man with no matches, lifeless fingers and a likely chance to not make it. The newcomer’s reason for making this mistake is because he thought about the warmth so much and he just wanted to warm himself up so he wouldn’t freeze to death. Therefore, the man didn’t make it. Sleeping was probably the best option he made in this story so he wouldn’t have to go through more mistakes and misery from the cold. Walking through the trail alone, falling through ice, and accidentally burning out the fire were the worst mistakes that could possibly be made. Walking through the Klondike is a serious challenge this man had faced in the book. He thought to himself that it’s a possibility to survive in weather that’s seventy five degrees below zero. Obviously the protagonist didn’t make it. No one can survive the