To Build A Fire By Jack London

Jack London had a difficult start to an accomplished life. Through his writings he expressed the social and intellectual problems in the 1900s. London influenced many great writers through his different socialism ideas. His writings show the difficult issues for the time through race and class. Through his writing “To Build a Fire” London describes the difficulties of his own time in the Yukon Territory.
The conflict of man vs. nature is expressed greatly through London’s’ work. The beginning of the story describes the day’s conditions in the Yukon. This freezing cold day is described greatly when the dog traveling with him wishes not to travel due to the weather of this day. In the story, it says “The animal was depressed by the tremendous cold. It knew that it was no time for
In the freezing cold one fatal mistake, can cost a man his life. Throughout the man’s journey he happened to face a few fatal mistakes. One mistake that the man made was not listening to the elders about traveling alone through the countryside. A second mistake that the man made was not being prepared for such a long journey in the temperatures. A third mistake that he made was building a fire under a snow-covered tree. As the man walked down the frozen river he partially fell in, making him wet in freezing cold temperatures. To dry his clothes in order to move on the man makes a small fire under a tree. Soon after starting this fire with his matches, he begins to get warm when the snow from the tree above falls putting the fire out. Once the fire is out the man has no other options left. Finally, a fourth mistake that the man made was using all his matches to make the one fire. If he would have saved a few matches there is a possibility that he may have been able to start another fire somewhere else. These fatal mistakes cost the man his life in which could have been easily