To Build A Fire, By Jack London

If Colorado in the winter is considered freezing cold, than what would the fifty degrees below zero Yukon in Canada be considered? To travel in a foreign land without any people within a mile is quite a dangerous and ignorant idea, yet doing this in weather that is fifty degrees below zero is absurd. Jack London’s “To Build a Fire” depicts a man with nothing but a husky and a couple of biscuits traveling in the Yukon, and he dies while trying to survive this journey, for he faces adversity by traveling in brutal weather, by having to make crucial decisions, and by fighting the obstacle of being alone. The protagonist in the story could have survived his brutal journey if he would have used his mind and simple, attainable resources, but he was too stubbornly overconfident and had to pay a price. The
When he tried to take a moment to do so, a stinging feeling shocks him and the author goes on to explain how “he had tried to take a mouthful, but the ice muzzle prevented. He chuckled at his foolishness. If an area that was too cold to stop and eat, then this man was already lacking common sense to travel in such a place, especially alone. Also, any logical would make a fire in that weather, and their human instincts would not allow them to “forget” to build a fire. He did not put it through his mind that if he did not build a fire, than his chances of dying would increase immensely. This quote depicts his lack of imagination when it describes how he chuckled at his foolishness. The protagonist only chuckles at his foolishness, but he does not think about the negative ripple effect his foolishness would lead to. He only laughed at it for a moment, instead of doing what any man with common sense would have done; felt the frost take over his body and panic. If the man had more imagination and less hubris, he would have survived his ignorantly planned