The Importance Of Gold In The Klondike Gold Rush

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Farah Ahmedi really wanted to escape her country to safety. Aengus really wanted to find the girl who said his name. Stanley Pierce really wanted to discover gold in the Klondike gold rush. Even though all of these characters strove to achieve different things they all had to be really determined in order to achieve their goal.
Stanley Pearce wanted to get rich on gold during a time when money was sparse and jobs were hard to find. The day that “Thousands of people in the public square watched the weather-beaten and hardy adventurers stagger into the express office with sacks of gold, gold in blankets, in oil cans, and even in moccasins(Meissner 2)”. “In a matter of hours, many Seattle residents began planning their own trips to the goldfields.