How Did Jack London Use Literary Techniques In To Build A Fire

In Jack London’s “To Build a Fire”, the man’s initial mistakes come, because he is too prideful and over confident in himself. In the end his lack of experience costs him, his life. Before the man sets off on his journey, he ignores the old timer on Sulphur Creek when he mentioned “how cold it got sometimes in the country”(6). Despite what the old timer said, the man still sets out on the journey, ill prepared for the harsh weather. In the beginning, the man “did not know cold” and refused to turn back and return to the warmer environment (9). On the other hand, the dog felt the brisk weather and decided “it was the time to lie in a hole in the snow and to wait for this awful cold to stop” (9). The man does not take the cold seriously and feels