Journal Paragraphs For To Build A Fire

James E. Faust once said, “Unfortunately, some of our greatest tribulations are the result of our own foolishness and weakness and occur because of our own carelessness or transgression.” In To Build a Fire by Jack London, a man is on a journey to get to his camp but the problem is that it is seventy degrees below zero, and he is travelling only with a dog to help him. The man, unfortunately, dies at the end of the story from frostbite after falling into an almost frozen creek and not being able to make a fire in order to warm himself up. One cause of his death is the man’s arrogance. The second cause of his death is his carelessness and hasty decisions. The man makes terrible decisions leading to his death, it is not nature’s fault.

Stephen Crane’s “The Open Boat” and Jack London’s “To Build a Fire” include parallel ideas of Man’s hopelessness in the natural world. Through out both short stories the authors bring up questions of man’s fate and his relationship with nature as well as carry a theme of naturalism. When nature seems to repeatedly play against man, the reader wonders we whether nature is cruel and sinister, making it difficult for man to live. Evidence in the the two stories such as the animal’s presence, the environments, and the different human characters, in both stories leads one to believe that nature is not in fact out to get man, but it is a neutral, indifferent factor.

Mankind’s ignorance of nature is seen through lack of preparation for nature’s unforgiving essence. In “To Build a Fire,” the narrator accounts the man’s initial thoughts of entering the deadly Yukon Territory alone: “Fifty degrees below zero was to him just precisely fifty degrees below zero.” Through implication, it is observed that the traveler undoubtedly underestimated the temperature of the wilderness, thus urging him to pack lighter than what he should have. The ignorance of mankind is also highlighted in the traveler’s assumption that “Any man who was a man could travel alone.” People who travel together in nature have a better chance for survival. Nevertheless, the traveler’s ignorant assertion that man can always travel alone proves that his lack of preparement will bring him into deeper trouble with nature. Mankind’s ignorance of nature is also evident in mankind’s constant trialing of nature’s limits. After traveling into the Yukon with many dogs and little food, Mason’s lack of intelligence causes a chaotic event that is described as, “The miserable creatures, weak from hunger, exerted their last strength. Up--up--the sled poised on the top of the bank; but the leader swung the string of dogs behind him to the right, fouling Mason's snowshoes. The result was grievous.” Mason’s testing of nature, though it not be intentional, earned him an

In her passage, Ms. Vollmer argues about McCandless failing to hear the warnings provided by Jack London through his stories which McCandless had read and reread many times. In his story 'To Build a Fire' Jack London has shown the difference between a person who did not care about the risks and a dog with pure instincts. The similarity between this man and McCandless was that both were inexperienced to the adverse events of nature and both failed to see the dangers. The main purpose of London's story was to warn the adventurers about the risks to the wilderness. As an enthusiast of Jack London, McCandless had read these stories many stories many times and yet failed to understand London's warnings. Shreds of evidence lie in every mistake he had made as he continued his journeys making Vollmer's argument agreeable.

The difference between life and death can be decided in a split second. One small mistake and the rest of your life disappears. In the short story To Build a Fire by Jack London, the main character’s decision to go into the Yukon alone was essentially what killed him. He was a logger, and decided to take a different path than the others, by himself. He eventually broke through the ice and wet his feet, meaning death if he did not successfully build a fire, as his feet were freezing on the spot in the 70 below zero conditions.

In Jack London’s “To Build a Fire” the main theme of the story is to listen to old timer’s advice. Although, this is not the only theme of the story. There are many sub-themes that help support the key point such as nature overpowering man, pride leading to disaster, and failure of imagination. These sub-themes help strengthen the major theme of the story to help the reader understand that listening to old timer’s advice is important.

Imperative: urgently necessary. In Jack London’s “To Build a Fire” building a fire is imperative for the man’s survival. While he was in the harsh Yukon environment, he falls into an ice trap, and his foot is frozen solid. Him not building a lasting fire ultimately led to his death, among him not listening to the old man’s advice to bring a partner, and him building a fire under a tree.

Jack London's story "to build a fire" is a captivating story, it's thrilling in every sentence the story is about a man and his Journey in the Yukon trail in winter in fact the essay states it was his first winter. Jack London's essay was very precise he wrote every detail in the story how long the trail was "The Yukon lay a mile wide" and the condition of the weather and everything around him "and hidden under three feet of ice. " The essay describes the place where the story took so good it creates a clear image in your mind the way how he felt "The dead fingers could neither touch nor clutch." London wrote the story so you feel like you were with him in the story. London also gave some background about where

You ever felt the edge of death? The beckoning scream for sweet release that comes with its pros and cons. Well the story, “To Build a Fire” by Jack London, is based on the theme of that. This story is about an unnamed man and his dog traveling to a village. A simple voyage in the summer but in the cold, harsh winters of the Yukon, it is not as bright.

“To Build a Fire” Jack London In Jack London’s story “To Build a Fire”, it teaches young adult’s the importance of observing your surroundings in a new environment, as well as listening to people who know the area and what not and what to do. In this story, it will show the reader why they must observe and listen. The first reason in London’s story is focusing on what you must do is if you’re told something very important, you must follow that person’s warning. In paragraph 6 on page 30 it states, “It was seventy-five below zero.”

The textual evidence of the setting is significant to the story, To Build a Fire, written by Jack London because without it we would not know how severe the man’s situation was. In the story, London shares the old man is hiking on the Yukon trail which is located around the Alaskan, Canadian border so we can already infer the temperatures are going to drop far below 0 degrees Fahrenheit. In, To Build a Fire, London explained that although it was a cloudless day, you could still not see the sun in the sky which told us that it was most likely difficult for the man to know what time of the day it exactly was so he wore a watch which in the beginning of the story read nine o’clock. Throughout the text London also gave more specific details and

In the Young Goodman Brown, there is a theme of the loss of faith from shared morals and ideals in society. In the passage, Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote that Goodman discovers that his wife, Faith and the other good and faithful people he know in his life were associated if the devil. Goodman said “There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name. Come, devil; for the to thee is this world given.” (Hawthorne 5). This relates to the weakness of morality because all of those that were with the devil, a figure of poor virtue, is considered impure and unfaithful. It is predicted that the subjects of faith and morals and the theme of the loss of purity will be shown in English 3.

My choice is for Jack London’s short story “ To build a fire”. I have always had a huge interest in great extremes of nature such as unpredictable floods or hurricanes or earthquakes or severe temperature changes which strongly influence the course of ordinary human life and cause people to show completely even unknown to themselves hidden deep in daily living qualities. I consider nature is a living matter that can react to the negatives provided by humanity in the forms of violent wars or conflicts or сareless attitude to natural resources or landscapes. Abnormal weather conditions or extremes are nature’s lessons to show humanity the fragility of our existence and thereby compel to respect the world of nature that was created not only for

“To Build a Fire” by Jack London is a short story about a man traveling through the Alaskan Yukon to meet up with his friends for lunch. The author keeps the character nameless and refers to him only as “The Man” which is used to show a connection between humanity and nature. The story shows the hardships the man goes through to get to his destination through the Alaskan Yukon, yet unfortunately doesn’t make it. The conflict is a man versus nature theme which contrasts strong and direct relations of the hardships in nature. Throughout this analysis, I am going to explore the conflict between the man and the merciless nature he has to go through before his death.