To Build A Fire Theme

This excerpt from ”To Build A Fire” is about a man trekking through Yukon territory with his dog. The man has no supplies, is alone, and is trying to make it to a camp by sundown. Before the main character left, an old-timer from the trail told him it was bad to walk through alone after negative fifty degrees. The man ignores the advice the other man gave him. As a result of this, he walks the trail anyway in negative one-hundred degree weather and dies from hypothermia. The actions of this man show that one of the themes is to take advice from those whom are wiser than you.

As the theme is developed, the man starts having difficulty on his journey and thinks back to what the old-timer said. In paragraph twenty-one it says “The old-timer