Essay on Man's Journey with Nature

the arrangement of words to complete a good sound. He also uses nature as metaphors to represent life's journey. The Road Not Taken, After Apple Picking, and An Old Man's Winter Night displays his best work of using nature as a metaphoric figure of life's journey. The Road Not Taken, simulates the beginning of a journey. In After Apple Picking, Robert Frost simulates looking back on how a journey went. In the last work, An Old Man's Winter Night, Robert Frost simulates the end of life. The Road

The man who has a “lack of imagination” is a newcomer to the Yukon environment, thereby unprepared for his journey in seventy-five degrees below zero temperature. The weather being colder than he anticipated, causing frostbite and numbness, gives the man no choice but “to build a fire”. The man doesn’t want to lose time, so after warming up he continues to travel. The dog doubts the journey, and continues to travel instead of sticking to the safe warm fire. When the man reaches Henderson Creek, he

character, a man, foolishly embarking on the long journey back to camp in the freezing Yukon, accompanied only by a husky mix. It is in this unforgivingly harsh weather that the man meets his fate, at his own hand. From the beginning of the story, the man displays flawed behaviors and personality traits that render him unable to survive on his solo journey in the Yukon, becoming his own worst enemy. One of the most prominent facets of the man’s personality is his overwhelming arrogance. The man

Everyone seems to underestimate the power of Mother Nature. Those unfamiliar with such a powerful force should not test their luck with Mother Nature. Although the beauty of nature often hides the unforeseeable danger, it is important to be clever and treat her with respect. Alaska’s unpredictable environment in particular is one of the most dangerous to compete with. With temperatures reaching as low as -80 °F, frostbite is very common amongst those who hike in Alaska. In Jack London’s “To Build

underestimate the power of mother nature. Those unfamiliar with such a powerful force should not test their luck with mother nature. Although the beauty of nature often hides unforeseeable danger, it is important to stay clever and treat her with respect. In Jack London’s “To build a Fire”, he reveals through description, characterization, and foreshadowing that mother nature is not a force to be reckoned with. Jack London uses description to illustrate a man’s foolish determination that ultimately

where it is more than 50 degrees below zero. "The man's red beard and moustache were likewise frosted, but more solidly, the deposit taking the form of ice and increasing with every warm, moist breath he exhaled. Also, the man was chewing tobacco, and the muzzle of ice held his lips so rigidly

the story by Jack London, visualizes the religious theme of the short story by symbolizing humanity’s disregard for the literal power of nature and figurative sense of pride in the intelligence of being human. The man, known as a “chechaquo,” or newcomer (177), disregards the sub-freezing arctic temperature right from the beginning of the story. Even so, the man’s only thought is getting to the mining camp at a certain time, shown by his pleasure at his precise estimation of his arrival at the fork

A Man’s Best Friend One day I was playing soccer with my friend and his dog outside of his house. All of a sudden his dog ran inside. I asked my friend what was the matter, why did he he just run inside? My friend explained to me that his dog is able to sense when bad weather is going to come. I told him it doesn’t look like bad weather is coming though, the sun is still out. He then responded by saying “you’ll see; his instinct is never wrong.” Nevertheless, later that day it did thunderstorm. My

individualism and goes to the forest to get away from all the burden. He tells his young sister that she can always come here to get away from her problems as well. In the poem, Wordsworth uses nature to solve problems in life. The Tintern Abbey has mysterious powers that only those in touch with nature can see. Wordsworth illustrates such powers by writing, "These beauteous forms/Through a long absence, have not

Jack London’s short story, To Build a Fire, is a heart-wrenching story of a man’s struggle to defy the forces of nature in the most extreme environment of the Yukon Trail, Canada. While warning against traveling alone, the man sets out by himself with only a dog at his side on a long journey across the pond in a frigid weather to meet his fellow campers. The man is full of hubris. He believes he can conquer Mother Nature, and this belief ultimately leads him to his tragic demise. In the beginning