The Yukon Trail

The setting acts as an antagonist to the man because it creates conflict, man versus nature, and is partially the cause of the man’s death. The brutal and harsh conditions of the Yukon works against the man in almost every way possible. In the story, the man gets his feet wet and struggles to build a fire (Line 255). The gradual freezing and numbing of his body begins which will eventually lead to his inevitable death. 7.) One mistake that the man makes is that he builds a fire underneath the spruce

In the story To Build a Fire written by Jack London, a man and a dog travel together through the Yukon in freezing temperatures to get to a cabin where the man’s friends are. The significant events in the story include the man falling into a creek, the man’s fire going out and the dog leaving the mans body reveal the authors’ own understanding of how nature and humanity interact. The use of third person point of view and symbolism work together in order to help readers understand the themes that

that any man who was a man could travel alone (London 382). The man would rather listen to himself than the wise words of someone who is more experienced in this type of terrain. Because the man had no previous personal experience traveling in the Yukon in such cold, he was unable to determine the severity of the journey he was about to take. He did not understand how hostile nature can be and his disdainful attitude toward it’s forces exemplifies that. At the beginning of the story, cold made no

In “To Build a Fire,” by Jack London, we follow a man as he treks, in freezing temperatures, along a trail in the Yukon. During the long hike back, he runs across many obstacles which eventually causes him to succumb to the cold. Throughout the story, Jack London uses foreshadowing, juxtaposition, and an omniscient 3rd person POV narration to develop the theme of what carrying an arrogant mindset can cause. Throughout the short story, Jack London uses the old man’s lessons to foreshadow the man’s

a Fire” by Jack London, an inexperienced traveler in the Yukon travels alone with his dog, even though it is ill advised to do so. The man is strong and smart but nature humbled him during his quest to reach his friends. The man’s inexperience with traveling in the cold subzero temperatures doomed him from the beginning, but his strong focus under extreme pressure and his keen sense of

not in the significances”. The meaning of this line in To Build A Fire is to foreshadow what later occurs and to introduce the theme of this epic tale. This unnamed man is warned about the dangers of the Yukon trail early in the journey by an old-timer who is far more experienced witht the Yukon trail but believes his intellect is no match for any type of danger nature could offer. The dog, however, can sense the trouble that lays ahead in the frozen wasteland and is hesitant to move onward. The fate

Fire” Reflection 1. “To Build a Fire,” a short story by Jack London, begins on a bitterly cold day at nine o’clock in the morning. The story is set on the Yukon Trail as a man walks along a wooded path trying to reach a mining camp and his friends. It is an isolated area with no other people. London describes the trail saying, “The trail was faint. A foot of snow had fallen since the last sled passed over…” There is no sun, even though it is daytime, making a gloomy atmosphere. London writes

example of this. In this story, a man hikes across a snow and ice covered plane towards the encampment where he is supposed to meet up with more travelers like himself. The setting of this story is one of the northernmost most areas of the earth, the Yukon. The man must hike across this area for approximately thirty-six miles before he reaches the camp at which he is expected. The constantly dropping temperature further complicates the man's hike. When he begins his journey at nine o'clock in the

“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. He attempts to run to the camp. He is not able to and dies. One theme from “To build a fire” is to listen to experienced people. The first way the theme is developed is the man doesn’t listen to the old timer at sulfur creek. In a paragraph in the beginning, he says the old

“To Build a Fire” by Jack London, is about a man who is unnamed, who travels from the Yukon trail on a deathly cold morning with a wolf-dog to meet up with his friends at a camp at Henderson Creek. The man is advised by a wise old man to not travel alone in such weather when it is extremely cold. But the man doesn’t pay attention to the little things and disregards the warnings and continues his journey. The central idea suggests a broad theme of man versus nature. Jackson shows this idea through