My Choice In Jack London's To Build A Fire

The story “To Build a Fire” written by Jack London has two nearly identical versions published in 1902 and 1908 respectively. The latter is better-known and more thought-provoking because of the protagonist’s death. To begin with, the journey takes place on a cold winter day in Klondike, consists of a man and his dog. The man is ignorant of the extreme coldness and feels confident about travelling alone at fifty degrees below zero. However, he breaks through a thin skin of ice unexpectedly and wets himself halfway to the knees. In order to dry his feet, the man builds a fire, only to have it extinguished by a pile of snow unloaded from a tree. He tries to set up another fire, yet all attempts has failed. The man panics and strives to unfreeze his body by running. Not surprisingly, his efforts are useless, and the man dies of hypothermia at last. The author effectively supports the central conflict of man versus nature and gives hints about the man’s death as resolution by using appropriate title, descriptive setting, and a large amount of foreshadowing.

The narrative “To Build a Fire”, written by Jack London, starts off with a man who recently moved to the Yukon and is experiencing his first winter. He was headed to the old camp on Henderson Creek to meet his friends. Following him was a grey coated wolf dog. He continued on the trail for one hour and then decided to take a break for lunch. His face started to freeze and his nose was numb. The man ends up falling into deep snow. The man gets up and starts to build a fire to dry himself up. He then remembers the old-timer who had warned him that no man should travel in below 50 degree weather. The man gets closer to the fire in attempt to get warm. The man them reaches up to grab a twig from the tree above and then snow dropped down and took out the fire. The man got scared and quickly started to build another fire. Although his fingers and feet were already numb to the point he can't move them, he attempts to light a match. After many failed attempts on lighting a match he decides that he would kill the dog and use its fur to keep his hands warm. He called the dog over and attempted to kill the dog. His hands were too cold to reach for his knife and too numb to strangle the dog, so he let the dog go. While trying to keep warm the man stands up and runs in circles hoping that it would warm him up. The man ends up falling to the ground and can’t get back up. He then realizes he should die in a better way and decides to sleep himself to death. The dog did not know why the man was lying there without a fire and eventually realizes he was dead. The dog then runs in the direction of the camp where there were food providers and fire providers were.

In Jack London’s short story, To Build a Fire, there is an unnamed man who is trying to make it back to his camp in the freezing weather of the Yukon. The man travels only with a sled dog and himself in the 50 degree below zero weather. Throughout the short story, the man struggles to survive as he soon realizes the temperature is actually severely dangerous at 75 degrees below zero. In the end, the man ultimately dies before successfully reaching his camp due to not being able to build a fire on time to stay warm. While laying on the cold ground finally accepting his death, the man thinks back to before he went out an old man warned him of the dangers of traveling alone out in this kind of weather. He accepts he was wrong to not head the

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.

In Jack London's "To Build a Fire" we see a classic story of man against nature. In this story, however, nature wins. One reason that this is such a compelling and engrossing story is the vivid descriptions of the environment the nameless main character endures. Plot and characterization are brief, and the theme is simple. Yet this story is still a very popular story, and it has a mysterious quality that makes it great.

The short story, “To Build a Fire,” written by Jack London took place on the Yukon trail. Further analysis led to the discovery that the story took place in Alaska. The setting became an important aspect within this story due to how much description was given to how cold it was. The cold weather suggests that the time of year was during the winter months. The setting of the story reminds readers that there are harsh places in the world, where nature becomes overwhelmingly powerful.

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

There are many authors in this world today. Some are known for classical writings of poetry, or hundreds and hundreds of books written by them. This author though was one who portrayed himself through dozens of short stories. His name is Jack London. Jack London is a writer who shows the conflict between Nature versus Man in his writings and supports this theme through his work, “To Build a Fire.” Jack was born on January 12, 1876 and died on November 22, 1916. He is best known for his nature novels depicting how nature can sometimes be so powerful that it overcomes man. Jack was deserted by his father when he was eleven and was mainly raised by his mother in Oakland, California. When his mother became ill she passed him on to the care of

In 1896, the last major gold rush happened, over 100,000 people migrated to Alaska searching for gold at the Klondike River. Out of the 100,000 people, only about 4,000 people actually found gold. It was challenging for the miners to find gold because of the harsh weather. In the short story by Jack London called “ To Build a Fire,” two characters are trying to get to the mining camp in the serve cold of Alaska. The two main characters are a man and his dog. The man is a miner in the Klondike Gold Rush who brings his dog along with him. They are on their way to meet up with the miners at a miner camp. On the way there, they have to face the freezing cold of the Klondike. A powerful theme that Jack London uses is how arrogance can be a bad trait and effect somebody life. This is easily shown in the story since the beginning. Throughout the short story, “To Build a Fire,” Jack London uses literary elements of setting and conflict to develop his theme of arrogance.

Imagine this, breathtaking cold, loneliness and uncertainty all wrapped into one. If given tips to survive, would you follow them or steer clear of that path? In Jack London’s short story titled “To Build A Fire,” a man is stuck in the great unknown. Not suitable for humans and in no way enjoyable. In Laurence Gonzales's short story titled,“Deep Survival”, there are twelve steps to any man's survival. If the man from “To Build a Fire” would have followed these steps, would his predicament have turned out differently?

The theme “To Build a Fire” by Jack London, is about pride, which is shown by survival in the wilderness, taking advice, and inevitably death. Pride is a major part of survival, especially in environments such as in Yukon, Alaska. When advice is given to you, it’s meant to help you or to save your life. Sometimes you have to learn the hard way when you don’t listen to advice, such as did the main character in the Alaska extreme cold weather. Formatively, you have to ask yourself; will you live or will you die in extreme cold weather if advice is given to you on what to avoid and how to survive?

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With -50 degree weather and death staring straight at you. You don't have much hope in this situation, yet there is a great amount of wisdom to be gained by the reader of the story. You get a sense of how lucky we are to be alive and how we can In “To build a fire” by Jack London there is a great amount of personal significance to me. In “To build a fire” there is deeper meaning behind the story is something all humans fear, death and uncertainty. In London's famous story another important value is to take advice from people who know what they we talking about or are experienced in a certain field of expertise, in this case it was the old man, but for many people it can be a friend or family member. The last important value is that having a partner is always better than being alone, there are many tough obstacles and times in life when people hit rock bottom, when there is a partner along that tough time it's not as bad.

One thing that impacts setting is plot. An example of how plot impacts setting is the location. The evidence that I found in the story, To Build a Fire, by Jack London, to support how the location affects the plot is that it sets the tone. The main character's goal was get to camp to meet up with his "boys". With the weather getting bad and the man not making it to the location it just makes the story. Could you imagine the story taking place at a park, or at the beach? The next piece of evidence would of course be how the blizzard affects the setting of the story. London describes the ground that the man was walking on was a thin sheet of ice with three feet of snow on top of that. This plays an important part because later in the story the man starts walking and doesn't notice that he was actually walking on the frozen lake until he falls through. So with there being a blizzard going on it snowed a lot on the Yukon Mountains. This means you could see the footprints of other traveler but unfortunately those footprints would be gone in an hour.

“To Build a Fire” by Jack London is set in the harsh landscape of the Yukon Wilderness where the sun does not shine for months and the temperature is continuously more than 50 degrees below zero. London introduces us to the main character whom he only calls “the man” and to his companion, a wolf-dog. The man is headed for an old claim on the left fork of Henderson Creek to meet the “boys”. As they travel, the dog is aware of the brutal cold, however, the man is only aware of the cold when his spit crackles in the air. Yet, the man isn’t concerned about the cold. The man continues traveling at about four miles per hour until, he reaches Henderson Creek and notices traps that hide pools of water under the snow. He takes care to avoid these traps by forcing his dog to travel ahead of him. At 12:30 p.m., the man arrives at the forks of the creeks and eats his lunch. In the act of trying to eat, he is astonished by the rate at which his fingers become numb from the cold.