My Choice In Jack London's To Build A Fire

Jack London’s short story “To Build A Fire” shows that valuing your pride too much can lead to harm, particularly in unsafe environments. The protagonist of this story is a man who is a newcomer to the Klondike region and is traveling during his first winter there, accompanied only by a native husky. He faces various challenges on his journey, including snowy negative seventy-five degrees fahrenheit weather and frozen river “traps”. However, his blatant sense of pride eliminates some of his instincts and common sense, including fear and the comprehension of danger. For instance, as the man journeys through the treacherously cold environment, he processes the weather in a very arrogantly ignorant way, because for him, “Fifty degrees below

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?

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.

Jack London’s 1908 short story “To Build a Fire”, focuses on a man who is traveling through the Yukon in -°F weather, alone. “To Build a Fire” is set in Yukon, Alaska during its colder months, with no sun. The protagonist known only as “the man” has no first hand experience in such weather therefore underestimates the danger involved. After accidentally stepping knee-high in spring water, the man attempts to build a fire to dry himself off. At first he is seemingly successful in building the fire, until snow from the branches above fall onto the flames and blots them out. When trying a second time the man is too cold to hold anything and can not successfully light the fire. The man then becomes frantic and attempts to run back to camp, but the Yukon is much too large, and the man eventually freezes. The mood in this story is very

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.

In 1910, Jack London wrote “To Build a Fire” with the deliberate intention of meticulously describing the setting for this particular piece. The author intently puts all his efforts to create the setting as an important, valuable role in his main theme. He purposely did not give a name to the man or the dog. He wants to make sure the reader clearly understood the setting and the importance of its role in this story. Mr. London explicitly intertwines his message on the ironic moral reality that can fall upon each one of us. It comes down to a choice. Real consequences happen. The irony can be seen through three different points as follows: the man’s pride, the dangers of 50 below zero temperatures, and the need to build a fire.

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

Jack London was born in San Francisco, California in 1876 and died in 1916. Through the years of his life, he was not only a writer. He pirated for oysters, sailed in the Pacific, traveled around the country during his life, and worked in factories. He let his mind escape from being a factory worker by writing. He explored the Yukon in the winter of 1897, and began publishing Overland Monthly in 1899. Many of London's short stories became classics. Some of his stories include The Call of the Wild (1903), The People of the Abyss (1903), and John Barleycorn (1913) (Stasz). One of London's most famous short stories is To Build a Fire. In the short story, "To Build a Fire," Jack London has a certain setting, imagery, repetition, irony, and symbolism he uses to expose the harsh realities of nature in order to caution the reader.

Many people often brag that they are “one with nature” and consider themselves the outdoors type. However, when put into hard situations that occur in the wilderness, several people come to realize that they are not as experienced as they had hoped for. When trekking through the outdoors, people need to have a partner with them, which is what the main character learned in Fire. He believed that he was skilled, but when put to the test, the man struggled immensely and ended up perishing due to his lack of preparation. A wise man once stated, “By falling to prepare, you are preparing to fail” (Franklin). In Jack London’s To Build a Fire, three major mistakes were made, which were not heeding advice given, not taking into account his surroundings, and believing he could live inside a dog.

“To Build a Fire” is a story tale about a dog that connects to nature more than man ever did.

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

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?

In “To Build a Fire” Jack London narrates the story in the third person point of view. He chose this because it was the best way to describe everything that happened. The use of a third person narrator allows the reader to understand both the environment and the characters in the story.

The movement of naturalism was greatly influenced by the 19th-century ideas of Social Darwinism, which was in turn influenced by Charles Darwin's theories on evolution. Social Darwinism applied to the human environment the evolutionary concept that natural environments alter an organism's biological makeup over time through natural selection. Social Darwinists and naturalists cited this as proof that organisms, including humans, do not have free will, but are shaped, or determined, by their environment and biology. Naturalists argued that the deterministic world is based on a series of links, each of which causes the next (for more on these causal links, see Causal links and processes, below). In "To Build a