To Build A Fire Foreshadowing Analysis

In “To Build a Fire”, by Jack London, there are many foreshadowing events throughout the story. The protagonist, or “the man”, shows self-confidence but at the same time a great deal of ignorance. The man is not cut out for survival like his dog, who relies strictly on his instincts for survival. The protagonist ignores the foreshadowing warnings from the old-timer and from nature. The protagonist, which is foreign to the area, should have listened to the old-timer that is a native to the land. “The old-timer had been very serious in laying down the law that no man must travel alone in the Klondike after fifty below”. Being seventy-five below the conditions are worse than the old-timer warned him about. The old man knew too many things can