"To Build a Fire" by Jack London, tells a story of a man traveling alone with his dog (Husky dog) through the Yukon Valley to reunite with some friends of his. Him being a "new-comer", a "chechaquo," who ignores the advice from the Old Timer (the precautions of traveling in weather below 50 degrees and later during the journey recalls and wished he had not,) which London portrays his main character is being ignorant and underestimating nature in the end can end up in a tragedy. ... In the beginning, London portrays the man (protagonist) as a smart but ignorant b...

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After reading "To Build a Fire," by Jack London, I sat still for a few minutes reminiscing about things that I was told in my youth. ... I take away a lot from this amazing short story written by Jack London, but the message that stands out the most is slow down and listen, and it might pay off in the long run....

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The story of "To build a Fire- by Jack London is about one mans lack of ability to survive under extremely harsh conditions. ... I felt that Jack London wrote it more like an instruction manual of survival than a story, as he repeatedly attempts to teach the reader survival techniques such as building fires, avoiding dangerous springs, and navigating a creek. ... This idea is also evident with Jack London's character development or the narrator. ... However, I believe that this was a secondary theme and all it did was give Jack London a forum to write his winter survival guide. I think ...

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In the story by Jack London, To Build a Fire, the main character learns a hard lesson of reality, when he meets his fate. ... In some situations, people have escaped their fate, but for the man in London's story, he was not as lucky, or equipped, to do so. ...

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In Jack London's To Build a Fire, the environment in which surrounds him is crucial to the story, he is caught within forces of nature in which he has no control, and that is why this story is great at depicting naturalism. ...

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One such author is Jack London. What interested me the most about Jack London was his book "The Call of the Wild." ... Between the two instances where this sentence appears, London seeks to toy with our conceptions of dogs and people. ... However, London plays with the concept of humanity when he describes Buck as a ruler, "king over all creeping, crawling, flying things of Judge Miller's place, humans included." ... But right before the kidnapping, London takes care to include aspects of Buck that seem out of place with his "high" life. ...

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