Examples Of Realism In To Build A Fire

Realism can change how the world thinks about something. The stories all have realism using different characteristics. Mark Twain, Henry James, and Edith Wharton are all major writers that practiced realism in the writing. Realism paints a picture of what people really experience in life and it does not sugar coat some parts of the story. The stories with realism are to inform the readers or for enjoyment.
The characters in the stories are experiences the struggles in someway. The struggle in To Build a Fire written by Jack London struggle is when nothing is going in the characters way in the Yukon, Alaska. When his first fire went out, he stepped in a spring, and he struggled to start a second fire he knew that “it was a matter of life and death”. He knows that he could die because of how cold it is in the Yukon. He thought it would be possible to survive in the freezing forest, but then mother nature got him. In The Men in the Storm written by Stephen Crane the men waiting to get into a house in a huge city to get out of the blizzard. The blizzard “sought out the men in their
In The Jungle written by Upton Sinclair, he use gritty details to describe the work environment. “The pluckers had to pull out this wool with their bare hands, till the acid had eaten their figures off.” The workers would slowly lose their figures do to the acid they worked with. The author use the gritty details about the acid to show society how bad the work conditions really were. In the short story To Build a Fire, London used gritty details to describe how cold it is in the middle of the Yukon forest. “He spat again. And again, in the air , before it could fall to the snow, the spittle crackled.” It is showing how cold the Yukon is when the story is taking place. The spitting in the story is a gritty detail, he could have used different ways to show how cold it is. Both short stories are showing realism using gritty