A Woman Who Went To Alaska Analysis
Q:
The authors of each piece are discussing the same topic but are using different points of view. How does each person's point of view shape the reader’s understanding of the miners' lives? Use details from each source to support your answer.
A:
In the pieces “The Klondike Gold Rush”, “A Woman Who Went to Alaska”, and “The City of Gold, they all talk about the Gold Rush in some way. All three authors/narrators show that there were hardships during the Gold Rush, but they all view it differently in their pieces. There are many examples proving this.
The author of the article “The Klondike Gold Rush” told of the experience of the Gold Rush. They showed how “stampeders” (miners) would race toward the gold fields, even though most of them didn’t even know what to do or where they were going. The author also told of the routes miners took, and which one was the most common route taken. Lastly, the author showed how miners would work in the most dangerous of conditions, and would have to work in the most incredible of ways to achieve their goal of obtaining gold. In the end, most of the miners were out of luck and hardly obtained any gold as the people that arrived at the gold mines first took most of it. The author is …show more content…
This clip gives a more detailed explanation of what happened in Gold Rush than the article “The Klondike Gold Rush”, as it shows visuals and gives more information on it. For example, it showed nearly the entire experience of what the Gold Rush was like, with people having to go on mountains in horrible conditions, and how people even died during the Gold Rush. The article was rather more of a summary of what happened. The short film is told in first-person, and the narrator also has a lot of opinions on the Gold Rush, especially since his father was in it, giving the narrator a connection to the Gold
The authors of each piece are discussing the same topic but are using different points of view. How does each person's point of view shape the reader’s understanding of the miners' lives? Use details from each source to support your answer.
A:
In the pieces “The Klondike Gold Rush”, “A Woman Who Went to Alaska”, and “The City of Gold, they all talk about the Gold Rush in some way. All three authors/narrators show that there were hardships during the Gold Rush, but they all view it differently in their pieces. There are many examples proving this.
The author of the article “The Klondike Gold Rush” told of the experience of the Gold Rush. They showed how “stampeders” (miners) would race toward the gold fields, even though most of them didn’t even know what to do or where they were going. The author also told of the routes miners took, and which one was the most common route taken. Lastly, the author showed how miners would work in the most dangerous of conditions, and would have to work in the most incredible of ways to achieve their goal of obtaining gold. In the end, most of the miners were out of luck and hardly obtained any gold as the people that arrived at the gold mines first took most of it. The author is …show more content…
This clip gives a more detailed explanation of what happened in Gold Rush than the article “The Klondike Gold Rush”, as it shows visuals and gives more information on it. For example, it showed nearly the entire experience of what the Gold Rush was like, with people having to go on mountains in horrible conditions, and how people even died during the Gold Rush. The article was rather more of a summary of what happened. The short film is told in first-person, and the narrator also has a lot of opinions on the Gold Rush, especially since his father was in it, giving the narrator a connection to the Gold