To Build A Fire

To Build a Fire is a short story by Jack London. To Build a Fire is about a man hiking in the Yukon with only a dog to accompany him. The man finds himself in a perilous situation as the cold attempts to take his life. The man is unsuccessful in building a fire and perishes. Critical Evaluation Of Work

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.

If developed the right way, the setting can play an important role in a story like this. London builds his setting up quickly, within the first words of this story. The story is set in the wintertime with no sign of the sun, at the Yukon Trail. A deadly and extremely cold area in the country of Canada. In the story, the narrator states, “Day had dawned cold and gray when the man turned aside

”(London,66). This shows that both texts had a man that struggled against the harsh weather. However, the man from To Build a Fire was in the Yukon and Craig Johnson was in Alaska. London, the author of To Build a Fire says, “Day had dawned cold and gray when the man turned aside from the main Yukon trail. ”(London 64).

The short story “To Build a Fire” by Jack London starts off with a man who travels to the Yukon, a major river in Alaska and western Canada, on an extremely cold winter day with a wolf dog. The man was a newcomer in the Yukon and this winter was going to be his first. The man is planning to meet a group of his friends at a camp by six o’clock. He plans on traveling alone with his wolf dog because he states that he is not fazed by the cold. An older timer on Sulphur Creek warns the man to not go into the wilder of Yukon on his own, but he refuses to listen and lets his ego get the best of him. So the man sets forth his journey with his dog and no other companion. As the days goes on and the weather grows colder, the ma realizes that his unprotected

“To Build a Fire” by Jack London is a story about a man who tragically passes away during his attempt to travel through the desolate Yukon wilderness in temperatures dropping to seventy-five degrees below zero. "Day had broken cold and grey, exceedingly cold and grey..." London uses this phrase in the beginning of the story to set the emotional tone for this story about a death. Such is the way in Yukon, Alaska, where our protagonist embarks on a journey to travel across 10 miles of wilderness. Traveling with only his food and dog, our protagonist is going against what the wise man from Sulfur creek had warned him to do.

“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.

In Jack London’s shorty poem, titled “To Build a Fire,” London creates a character of a man who goes on a journey through a hostile environment in the sub-freezing temperatures of the Yukon trails. The man’s journey takes a turn for the worse when he gets his feet wet falling through ice and struggles dearly as he battles to keep warm by building a fire. The man’s struggle for survival faces him come to terms with reality to face death with dignity and falls victim to the unforgiving power of nature. No one can deny that Mother Nature can present harsh weather for any man to endure.

Including both Realism and Naturalism, “To Build a Fire,” is a story of a man and a dog traveling in the Yukon to a mining camp that is nine hours of hiking away. The title of the story itself shows the readers a sense of naturalism from the start. Naturalism is focused around an ill-educated or lower class individual

As a tribe member become weak, resulting in making the tribe weaker, the tribe leave that member behind. Unfortunately for Koskoosh, he is becoming slow and sick. This leads Koskoosh to be left by his tribe and to die in the snow. In “To Build a Fire” the man who is unnamed begins to start his trail toward Henderson Creek but, before he starts an old man tells him that a the cold weather was no wether to travel in. As the man goes on and is put into life threatening situations, he fights through them using his survival tactics. Sooner enough the man is numb from the low temperatures and begins to feel sleepy knowing it is his body system shutting down, the man decides to lie down in the snow and fall asleep which shortly become his death.

“To Build a Fire” is a short story written by Jack London. It is viewed as a masterpiece of naturalist fiction. “To Build a Fire” features a miner who is traveling to the Yukon Territory with a dog as his companion. The miner is the protagonist and the dog companion is called the foil. The dog plays off of the traits of the protagonist. “The central motif of “To Build a Fire” concerns the struggle of man versus nature.” (Short Story Criticism) The most argued point in the short story is the reason of the protagonist death. “Some critics believe that it was his lack of intuition and imagination that lead to his death, while others say that he dies because of panic.” (Short Story Criticism) The protagonist in “To Build a Fire” struggles in

"To Build a Fire" takes place in Yukon, on an extremely cold and grey winter day. An unnamed man travels alone, except with an unwilling dog, to the camp at Henderson Creek with his friends, "the boys". Travelling on such a cold day did not worry the man at all though, because he is "without imagination" (100). The dog, on the other hand, knew by its instincts that it is too cold to travel. As they walk, the man encounters plenty of trouble, including the struggle to build a fire with his numb hands. He thinks about killing the dog for its warmth but is unable

“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.

To build a fire is a short story written by Jack London. It is a story about an individual’s choice. The main character’s self-centeredness overcomes him, as he tries to survive the wintery weather in his travel in the Yukon Trail. He made a choice of ignoring the weather warnings, which evidenced danger in his journey. There were warnings like the absence of fellow travelers due to the cold season, but his egoism made him still embark on the journey alone, despite the warnings. The protagonist’s pride and arrogance leads to a regrettable outcome, as it leads to his downfall. The protagonist made the wrong choices because of his egotism, and arrogance and they led to his downfall. He defied nature due to his lack of logical judgment, and

I picked To Build a Fire because I like adventure stories. It seemed that's the man was a newcomer to Yukon territory in Canada, and he didn't expect this severe frost. So he wasn't prepared for the terrible drop in colds, which was more than 75 degrees below zero, and also had no experience in the country climate. At last, he succeeded to reached his destination with his dog.