Theme Of Perseverance In To Build A Fire

He constantly decided how cold it was and how he didn’t like to be as cold as he was. Inevitably, the psychological factors wore his mind and soul down to make him only think how cold he was. By the end of his situation, any warmth, whether by the sleep of death or fire, was all the man could think about. Without any imagination to focus his thoughts elsewhere, the man helped himself collapse into his final doom.

Throughout the whole story fire plays a huge role in the novel fahrenheit 451. Montag believes in the beginning of that book that fire exist to burn books, but he never really grasp why. Montag opinion changes drastically about fire when he encounters Mrs. Hudson, Clarisse, Faber, and books. In chapter three is says Montag “knows why he must never burn again in his life”, because the sun “burns time.” With time everything will start to fade away anyway so there's no need to get rid of books.

In to Build A Fire written by jack London, the main character fails at life and the choices he makes. The man named Jim Bob was not prepared for his trip from one camp to another camp. Jim Bob was freezing cold from the weather,and its environment. Jim Bob made very foolish decisions. Jim failures were caused by lack of preparation natural environment.

The man knows the temperature is colder than 50 below; he has no experience traveling in such weather yet continues absentmindedly to meet ‘the boys’ at their camp in Henderson Creek. A dog followed at his heels, “It’s instinct told it a truer tale than was told to the man by the man’s judgement” (Anderson 28). The man was aware of the dangers of his trip, including thin ice skin hidden beneath pockets of sunken snow. Several times he avoids these traps wishing not to be delayed and even compels the dog to lead when he is unsure himself. The dog’s instinct screams no but the man shoves it forward anyway and the dog’s legs are soaked briefly before turning to ice. The dog quickly bites and licks at the ice to remove it from its fur. After a swift lunch and a small fire the dog again reminds the man of the dangers that lie ahead, “…it knew that it was not good to walk abroad in such fearful cold” (Anderson 30). Regretfully, the man saw no signs before falling through a pocket of snow and ice which left his feet wet. “He was angry and cursed his luck aloud. He had hoped to get into camp with the boys at six o’clock, and this would delay him an hour, for he would have to build a fire and dry out his footgear” (Anderson 31). Ignorant to his surroundings, the man’s fire is put out when snow falls from the boughs of the spruce above his fire. He finally acknowledged

In the story "To Build a Fire" by Jack London, there are three principal themes. They are respecting nature, and considering results of actions. The main theme, or universal truth, is heeding warnings. The themes are shown through the character and his actions. The main character in the story had an attitude that prevented him from heeding internal and external warnings. He did not respect nature's power, and therefore he paid with his life.His attitude was arrogant and careless.

Jack London, an american novelist, wrote a short story called To Build a Fire in the early 1900’s. To Build a Fire is about a man who travels alone through the dangerous environment of Yukon in below-freezing temperatures. The man’s goal was to meet up with “the boys” at a camp that was a couple of miles from where he began his journey. He had no doubt that he would make it to the camp, for he had a husky wolf-dog by his side, and the skills he needed to survive. However, the man ended up running out of energy and falling into a nice, satisfying sleep, murmuring, “You were right, old fellow. You were right,” to the old man of Sulphur Creek who warned him about travelling alone.

Plutarch’s words are not very comforting or encouraging but they are true. Still, he holds on to the little hope that it might end because hope springs eternal. Because Collins doesn’t want to make everything bleak.Hope is needed to shake people and is feared by president Snow: “A little hope is effective. A lot of hope is dangerous. Hope is fine, as long as it’s contained.” By Catching Fire, he’s modified his stance: “Fear does not work when there is hope.” So again the idea of hope and the collective are presented as the baby steps towards freedom. Free from fear and oppression. At least for a while.

“To Build a Fire” begins with a man going on a Yukon trail. He gets to a layer of ice. He walks on the ice to test it, and then he falls through. He then tries to make a fire. It fails and he tries again, but stull fails.

To begin, imagine yourself waking up on a boat in the middle of the sea with no food or water with a 450 pound bengal tiger alone, or how about living in an igloo in the rim of the polar sea with polar bears, extreme cold, and no food or clean water(again). The protagonists in both of the stories have to face some serious tasks in order to survive.

One theme from “To Build a Fire” is that you should listen to others that are wiser then you. The old man warned the young man shouldn’t go out in the wilderness alone. But the young man still didn’t listen it was below -50 degrees. The young man didn’t listen to the old man when he said that the weather is dangerous because when you are alone, things can go wrong quickly and there is no one with you to save you.

To Build A Fire by Jack London is about a man who is trekking over the Yukon in order to reach his men in a camping ground. The man is warned by a “wise one” that traveling in such treacherous conditions is deadly. The man did not take head to the older mans warning and continued to set out on his quest. Just when the man thinks that everything is going as planned he can’t escape the enviable. Death.

Confidence does not always come with intelligence. In “To Build a Fire” by Jack London, the unnamed man decides to take on the challenge of traveling through Alaska in negative fifty degree weather, despite being warned of the dangers. His over confidence has made him fear nothing, not even nature’s toughest challenges. Before this crucial experience he was a cocky and confidence man, but in the end he learned to not always trust his own thoughts. The crucial moment the man faces, is when he loses the feeling in his limbs, which leads to the self-destruction of his confidence.

The protagonist meets his demise because of his lack in intuition and imagination. (Short Story Criticism) The miner heads out to the miners camp after being warned to not travel at such cold temperatures. The miner displays his lack of intuition many times throughout the story. The miner proves he lacks in instinct when he says “fifty below zero is just uncomfortable and cold.” (London 1) “The protagonist travels against the advice of experienced prospects, thinking that he will make it successfully.” (Short Story Criticism) He shows his inexperience further when he thinks it is “fifty below when it’s actually seventy-five below zero.”(London 2)The recurring motif of man versus nature supports the lack of intuition theory. The secondary main character displays the instinct traits the man does not have. It shows how the wolf-dog senses the severity of the climate while the miner just views it as uncomfortable and cold. The miner further proves his lack of

After further and cumulative study of the story, one may come to the conclusion that the man in the story has totally influenced reality both in his refusal to allow perceptions persuade him from his mission as he set out to it and also in his utter confidence in his own perceptions of his unique and higher judgment maintaining an overly optimistic outset in regards to his own abilities. One particularly dire incident began, “The man was shocked. It was as though he had just heard his own sentence of death” (London 130). One can see by the word “shocked” that he clearly assumed nothing would go wrong, until it actually is done already.

In "To Build a Fire," Jack London expresses his perspective of the multitude of greenhorns who flocked to the yukon in a rush for gold. It is evident that he believed that these newcomers were too inexperienced and blinded by gold fever to survive the trip. Like many of them, "the Man" is driven by his own foolish ego to act irrationally and to not follow wise advice. Though his consience continually nags at him, his ego-driven way of thought keeps pushing him blindly forward. The Man is not only representative of other fortune hunters like himself, but he also repersents every person on this planet. All of us, at some point in time, pushed our own consience aside and followed our own selfish ego.