To Build A Fire, By Jack London

The excerpt from The Red Badge of Courage, shows realism in a unique way that related and reminded me of, "To Build a Fire", by Jack London. Both of these passages represent realism in actual situations that could happen. Often times in adventurous stories like both of these the end of the story is always fantasized and turned into a long fantasy moment; whereas in these stories the ending of the story, ends just the way it would end in a realistic world. In /To Build a Fire/, the author could have either ended it with the man staying alive or he could have ended it with him dying, which in both situations they are realistic depending on how they are written. He chose the most realistic option for the situation. Having the man die was realistic because of the circumstances.
"Also, the man was chewing tobacco, and the muzzle of ice held his lips so rigidly that he was unable to clear his chin when he expelled the juice (483)”. Jack London didn't write the story to be filled with miracles and fantasized mystery's that make up the ending all in one. He wrote it to be realistic. He wrote the ending exactly how it would be in most cases if someone was in that situation. It's not the happiest ending, but it is real. I like how each part of the story shows how cold it was and how it wasn't easy to travel through the forest, it was a big daring task. I like the realism in it because it shows what it was really like. Often times even in history books stories of voyages and long travels are fantasized and don't have that aspect of it being hard and unbearable at some points of the