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To Build a Fire
After the man (the writer doesn't give the main character a name) builds a fire to warm himself up, he thinks back to some advice an old-timer gave him at Sulphur Creek. The old-timer had told him...
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To Build a Fire
In Jack London's short story "To Build a Fire," the newcomer displays his foolishness by dismissing the old man from Sulphur Creek's advice regarding traveling in extreme conditions. The old man...
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To Build a Fire
Along with setting, a story's characters, plot, conflict, and resolution are generally regarded as its essential elements. In some stories, the setting operates as a picture frame to enhance the...
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To Build a Fire
When the newcomer takes off his mittens, his fingers immediately go numb, and he accidentally drops the entire pack of matches into the snow. Tragically, the man is unable to pick up the matches...
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To Build a Fire
The relationship of the unnamed main character to the setting is the heart of Jack London's "To Build a Fire." A man sets out on a journey in the hostile climate of the Yukon territory accompanied...
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To Build a Fire
Situational and dramatic irony are both present in "To Build a Fire." Dramatic irony occurs when a reader has more information or knowledge about a character or situation than a particular...
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To Build a Fire
The main character of Jack London's "To Build a Fire" is travelling the "main Yukon trail" in the opening line of the story. The Yukon Territory is the smallest of Canada's three national...
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To Build a Fire
At first, the man is very complacent. As the writer states, "the trouble with him was that he was without imagination." He knew it was cold,\ but didn't consider how the cold would affect him. He...
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To Build a Fire
The man in “To Build a Fire” is a young and inexperienced traveler who dies at the end of the story due to his hubris. He thinks, mistakenly, that he knows better than others what it takes to...
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To Build a Fire
The natural setting of the brutal arctic conditions of the Klondike, conditions which are indifferent to the presence of a man, express Naturalism, a literary movement among novelists who viewed...
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To Build a Fire
In Jack London's short story, the unnamed narrator is a newcomer to the Yukon territory, who attempts to travel ten miles across the unforgiving wilderness in temperatures dropping to seventy-five...
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To Build a Fire
"To Build a Fire" is a short story of survival in the wilderness written by Jack London. London had traveled to the far north, to Yukon Territory, and learned much about how to survive (or die) in...
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To Build a Fire
Throughout the story, London compares the man's knowledge to the dog's instincts, and the dog's instincts seem to be superior. The man knows that it is cold. Unlike the dog, he can read a...
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To Build a Fire
In the short story "To Build a Fire" by Jack London, a man accompanied by a large husky dog takes a seldom-used trail through the Yukon while the temperature is 75 degrees below zero and dropping....
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To Build a Fire
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Physically, the dog and the man are both dying from the cold. It is so cold that they are caked with ice. The frozen moisture of its breathing had settled on its fur in a fine powder of frost, and...
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To Build a Fire
As the man comes to severe difficulty after falling in the water and struggling to light a fire, he thinks back repeatedly to the old man at Sulphur Creek. He had had a conversation with them man...
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I don't believe that the dog has a name. It is always referred to as "the dog." Even when, towards the end, the man is trying to get it to come to him so that he can kill it and warm his hands...
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To Build a Fire
The omniscient third-person narrator of Jack London's "To Build a Fire" explains why the area around the creeks were particularly dangerous, although the creeks themselves were frozen solid. The...
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To Build a Fire
Jack London spent time as a young man in the unforgiving cold of the Yukon. He was in search of gold as a prospector. After his experiences in the wilderness, London wanted his readers to...
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Enotes does not allow you to ask multiple questions, so I have been forced to edit down your original questions to just focus on the first one that you asked. As in the majority of works of...
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The newcomer worries consistently about falling through the ice. He knows that if his feet get wet that he must warm them immediately in order to avoid frostbite, hypothermia, and death....
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The little blurb with which the grim story begins, is all the foreshadowing you need: "He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in the significances." Yes,...
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One of the simplest is well known by Boy Scouts the world over, be prepared. His lack of understanding about certain aspects of life in the wild, particularly in the Arctic, get him into serious...
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To Build a Fire
As the previous post points out, the story is set in the Yukon and in this case the man leaving town is a newcomer, someone not accustomed to the Yukon and its dangers. he is confident and brash...
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To Build a Fire
When the story opens, it is morning and the man and his dog are in the Yukon. The Yukon is the northwestern part of Canada and lies east of Alaska. London describes the sky as "cold and grey,...
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The main character's feelings are revealed through the third-person narrator. Through the narrator's description of the main character's actions, etc., the reader learns about his feelings. The...
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The climax, or point of highest emotional intensity, in "To Build a Fire" occurs after the man's first fire is extinguished and he is unable to start a second. In Jack London's story that...
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One very good example of cause-and-effect in "To Build a Fire" is the protagonist's lack of preparation. He receives explicit advice from an experienced man who has traveled the Yukon for years:...
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You might receive a range of responses to this question, and it is always interesting to debate alternative endings to texts. However, my own feeling is that the rather pessimistic ending we have...
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The short story "To Build A Fire" by Jack London takes place in Alaska. Here are five details that allow the reader to experience the "cold" in the story. 1. The man in the story spits into the...
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To Build a Fire
The use of light as a symbol is a crucial element in "To Build a Fire." The story is set during twilight, that time between the daylight hours and night-time. The absence of the sun is essential to...
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To Build a Fire
In Jack London's story "To Build a Fire," the setting does function as a kind of character in the story. The weather is too cold to be out as he could truly freeze in these temperatures. He...
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To Build a Fire
In the short story, "To Build a Fire" by Jack London, the newcomer heads out for his camp and ignores the advice of the old timers that it is too cold to travel alone. He is sure that he will be...
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To Build a Fire
Naturalism states that the role and effect of Humans in Nature is dependent more on Nature's effect on Humans, not the other way around. In this sense, it is somewhat deterministic, but more in the...
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I think it was sad that the man had to die; however, this story teaches us a very valuable lesson about animal instincts and how animals sometimes are smarter than humans. If the man had simply...
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To Build a Fire
If one assumes that the fate of the man trying to light the fire was totally determined by previous actions or his previous life, the connection to social darwinism, or the idea of survival to the...
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To Build a Fire
Jack London's naturalistic story depicts the conflict of Nature vs. Man; that is, civilized man, who has lost some of his atavistic instincts. Without these instincts and development according to...
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To Build a Fire
The main theme in "To Build a Fire" is Man versus Nature, but in the sense of Literary Naturalism. The protagonist is not killed by nature, but simply is unequipped to survive in it; he does not...
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To Build a Fire
"To Build a Fire" by Jack London provides a conflict which places the main character, a nameless man, against the harshness of nature in Alaska in the midst of winter. the setting is the late 180s...
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To Build a Fire
I have always found many human characteristics in the way Jack London presented the dogs in his novel, Call of the Wild. In many ways they are better than most of the men found in the book. The...
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At e-notes, the educators cannot do an assignment for the student. We can make suggestions and discuss the question. My approach will be to give information that you can use to write your essay....
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Strangely, there are times where it would be a really good idea to build a fire under a tree. If you are trying to escape detection and want something to try and dissipate the smoke and prevent...
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To Build a Fire
The first response to this question is that the man is meeting a group of other "boys" at the old camp on Henderson Creek, where he hoped for "the possibility of floating logs from the islands in...
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To Build a Fire
Jack London's adventure story "To Build a Fire," set in the Yukon at the turn of the 20th century, is a perfect example of a "man vs. nature" conflict. The unnamed protagonist is hiking in the...
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To Build a Fire
This story does not have many characters, so it will be easy to work through the problem by considering the definitions of your terms. An antagonist is someone who is opposition to the protagonist,...
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To Build a Fire
In "To Build a Fire" Jack London's narrator observes that the man is "quick and alert," but he lacks imagination. And, so, he overlooks the significance of these things: The lack of sun casts a...
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To Build a Fire
Jack London’s story “To Build a Fire” places man within the realm of nature at its worst. Nature does not change to suit man nor does it attempt to hurt him. It is the natural world. Man...
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To Build a Fire
London's story is an excellent example of naturalism, a philosophy in nineteenth-century literature that did not recognize man's ability to control or determine his own life. Man was presented...
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To Build a Fire remains one of Jack London's most famous and influential stories, being a simple tale of man vs. nature in a harsh environment. By describing the facts without embellishment and...
