Shadows
In the icy depths of night
Where light lives only in memory
But the light must be kept alive
If not to live without shadows
Without shadows, there might be no scare
Of creatures that prowl in the night
But if life was to be without shadows
Then life would be without light
Without light, life would be in darkness
In fear
In cold
In hunger
But if life were to find the light
Then life would also find the shadows
In shadows; life might become scared
Others might blend into its inky depths
Some might go into their embrace
Others may never come back
Night
In the night
Strange things can happen
If you don't pay attention
Your life could change forever
For night does have a way
Of messing with your mind
Bringing out all your fear
The longer you stay in its reign
For strange thing do tend to happen
In the night
The Call of the Wild
Pulling a sled through miles of icy terrain, a team of dogs struggle against the bitter wind. Their sled driver whipping them from behind just so they would keep going. Lead alone by a single dog, a dog named Buck. These dogs were simply just tools for their drivers to reach their fortune lying hopefully underneth the thick, hard snow. This was the time of the Klondike Gold Rush, when people from all over came into this horror - filled land just to try to find their fortune in gold.
The Call of the Wild is set during the Klondike gold strike in 1897. Once word spread about the huge amounts of gold recently found in Yukon, Alaska, over 100,000 miners set out dreaming that they would be coming back home rich as a king. These people happily sold most of their belongings in order to have enough money to buy all the gear that they would need to survive the conditions of this unforgiving land. Some of the essentials to survival during this time were a tent, food for you and the dogs, a gun, a burner, extra supplies for the dogs, and a good rope, but the sled dogs were the reason that the Klondike gold strike was anywhere near the magnitude of which it ended up being. Dogs were constantly being traded from owner to owner where one journey ended and another began.
Sled dogs were the only way to cover vast distances over snow and ice during the time period of the Klondike strike. These dogs were bought as young as possible and trained to pull the sled without injuring themselves or the dogs around them. They had to have good speed and endurance if they were to survive on their team. On average, sled dogs can pull 85 pounds for distances around 90 miles in a period of 24 hours. Normally, the dogs are harnessed on in front of the other in two rows with a lead dog in the front. These lead dogs guide the rest of the team to safety across this hostile environment, like Buck in the book The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Unfortunately, many lives of these miners were taken by the cold, wolves, bar fights, and even Indians. The only ones during this strike that actually made money were the people that sold all the supplies that the miners needed for their expedition. The families of these people had no idea whether they were alive or dead. Some miners gave up on their expeditions and were so poor that they could not afford to get back home for a while. Others made a whole new life for themselves. Even if these new settlers found a home, they were not save from the wrath of the Indians. Buck's owner and team were murdered by Indians near the end of the book, after which he fled into the wild to join with his wild brethren.
The Call of the Wild by Jack London took place during the Klondike Gold Strike where without dogs, you would die. Many men and women eventually ran out of money and got rid of their dogs to other owners, swapping dogs just like average garden tools. They were normally unloved by their owners and the dogs likewise. After the gold rush, the miners all left or resettled up in the northen frontier of Alaska.
Cookies And Milk
"It is done." said a man in the red coat.
The man got up and walked back over to the chimney, turning his back on the presents that lay under the shining tree. A plate of cookies and milk lay besides it, untouched. The man looked back only once to make sure he was done before climbing back up the chimney.
Here are the facts:
1. Santa finished his annual route that night
2. There were presents under the tree
3. Millions of children where confused as they opened their presents from Santa the next morning
4. People flooded the streets and looked at their neighbors trees
5. In every present there was nothing but the pathetic cookies and milk from last year that you thought Santa had eaten long ago
