Short Story 'To Build A Fire'
¨We have grown socially and culturally unwilling to accept that primitive education which dictated that people simply learned or died.¨ In Unit #2, survival is said to be that it is our responsibility and questions us if these types of people who are in life-or-death situations should be held accountable for their actions. People in life-or-death situations should be held accountable for their actions because it's basically their decision whether if they want to live or if they don't. These types of people put themselves in a very dangerous situation and sometimes have no way out, only if they're lucky enough to have another life. Not having responsibility, being selfish throughout your own actions, and being too overconfident are some ways
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Sometimes people’s overconfidence can cause them to lead to horrible things in their lives. According to the short story, “To Build a Fire”, it says “That man from Sulphur Creek had spoken the truth when telling how cold it sometimes got in the country. And he laughed at him at the time!” In other words, the main character in this story had lots of confidence throughout this story and faces a serious situation that leads him to lose his life. A man from a place where he is from, told him once how serious the cold was in the country, but the guy laughed and didn't believe him. According to the short story, “To Build a Fire”, it says “Those old-timers were rather womanish, some of them, he thought. All a man had to do was to keep his head, and he was all right. Any man can who was a man could travel alone.” To be more precise, apparently the guy thought that the guys in his hometown were womanish and didn't like taking risks. His opinion was that if a man had his head he would be alright but towards the end, his perspective ended up changing and thought about how he was wrong. According to the short story, “To Build a Fire”, it says “The old-timer on Sulphur Creek was right, he thought in the moment of controlled despair that ensued: after fifty below, a man should travel with a partner.” To put another way, the man that thought that traveling alone and being taking a very dangerous risk lead him to a very harsh life. Being too confident about your actions can lead to bad things and sometimes things don't end up how they thought they
Sometimes people’s overconfidence can cause them to lead to horrible things in their lives. According to the short story, “To Build a Fire”, it says “That man from Sulphur Creek had spoken the truth when telling how cold it sometimes got in the country. And he laughed at him at the time!” In other words, the main character in this story had lots of confidence throughout this story and faces a serious situation that leads him to lose his life. A man from a place where he is from, told him once how serious the cold was in the country, but the guy laughed and didn't believe him. According to the short story, “To Build a Fire”, it says “Those old-timers were rather womanish, some of them, he thought. All a man had to do was to keep his head, and he was all right. Any man can who was a man could travel alone.” To be more precise, apparently the guy thought that the guys in his hometown were womanish and didn't like taking risks. His opinion was that if a man had his head he would be alright but towards the end, his perspective ended up changing and thought about how he was wrong. According to the short story, “To Build a Fire”, it says “The old-timer on Sulphur Creek was right, he thought in the moment of controlled despair that ensued: after fifty below, a man should travel with a partner.” To put another way, the man that thought that traveling alone and being taking a very dangerous risk lead him to a very harsh life. Being too confident about your actions can lead to bad things and sometimes things don't end up how they thought they