THE IMPACTS OF GOLD FEVER ON SOCIAL CONDITION IN NORTHWEST TERRITORIES OF CANADA IN THE LATE OF 1890’S AS REFLECTED IN JACK LONDON’SWHITE FANG

• Main Author: Wan, Syahputra.A
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: PE English; Canada; Fang; Northwest Territories; Rata; Yukon; Alaska
• Online Access: http://scholar.unand.ac.id/9110/; http://scholar.unand.ac.id/9110/1/1986.pdf

The second reason is this novel describes the effect of gold fever into the life of society in Klondike. In White Fang, there are many people race from US to achieve the gold at the Northwest Territory in Yukon, Canada at the late 1890’s. The travelers are blinded by the gold fever. However, that territory is dangerous and fifties below zero freeze. Birdsal and Florin in their book Garis Besar Geografi Amerika : Lanskap Regional Amerika Serikat states: Sifat lingkungan fisiknya yang tidak ramah, ditambah dengan jarangnya pemukiman, merupakan karakter khusus Northlands. […] temperature Januari rata – rata berkisar dari yang tinggi sekitar -7oC sepanjang tepi Great Lakes bagian selatan sampai -40oC, di sebagian Alaska temperatur dapat mencapai -60oC. (170) (Physically with harsh environment and rare residences are the characteristic of Northlands. […] in January its temperature from the high scales is -7oC as long as Great Lakes edge in south until -40oC, and -60oC at a part of Alaska.) Jack London describes those phenomena in this novel by using the narrative style that show the social condition on Klondike in the Northwest Territory of Canada’s Yukon as the impacts of the power of gold fever which is influences to reach the welfare society. Based on the two reason mentioned above, the writer is interested to analyze this novel and decides to entitle this research with “The Impacts of Gold Fever on Social Condition in Northwest Territories of Canada in the Late of 1890’s As Reflected in Jack London’sWhite Fang”.