To Build A Fire Tobias Wolff

In the passages "Powder", by Tobias Wolff, and "To Build a Fire", by Jack London, they have similar and different ways that the authors use to develop the themes of the stories. They both have the similar theme of never giving up. They both take different approaches to how they develop the theme. In the passage "Power" the father never gives up when they are trying to get home. In "Power" the author states, "Down the first long stretch I watched the road behind us, to see if the trooper was on our tail. "(Wolff) This evidence shows that the father never gave up even when police were chasing them. In the story "To Build a Fire" the man never stops walking and tries to catch up with the rest of the group. In the story "To Build a Fire", the author