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    In “To Build a Fire‚” Jack London describes life as a valuable gift that he cherishes with his heart and spirit. The anonymous main character confronts death expressing his emotions and characteristics to the audience. The man encounters his pride and does not want to accept losing self-respect: “When he had recovered his breath and control‚ he sat up and entertained in his mind the conception of meeting death with dignity” (638). The man realizes his mistakes during his travel from the Yukon trail

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    make important decisions‚ whether or not to get that new phone you’ve been looking at for the past hour‚ but almost never do we never have to make a life or death decision. It all depends on which we would rather use; instinct or intellect. In “To Build a Fire” by Jack london the lesson that he teaches about instinct vs. intellect is that man should learn whether or not to use instinct or intellect in certain‚ sometimes life threatening situations. London develops the theme through the use of characterization

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    The protagonist in Jack London’s “To Build a Fire”‚ lacks his strength and ability to accomplish the mission‚ while the companion‚ the dog exhibits the instinct and wisdom that the man failed to display. A story begins with gloomy tone and setting because how London described the weather as‚ “Day had broken cold and gray‚ exceedingly cold and gray” (London‚ 124) London assured the readers that how cold it is throughout the story by using words‚ such as no sun‚ no hint of sun‚ gloom‚ gray‚ dark

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    many take it upon themselves to learn the hard way and ignore the advice. In the short story “To Build a Fire‚” author Jack London introduces a relationship between the main character‚ The Man‚ and a secondary character‚ The Old-Timer from Sulfur Creek‚ that shows how one’s pride can get in the way. The interactions between these two characters give the reader a true idea of who The Man really is and how his overbearing sense of pride puts his survival in jeopardy. In the beginning‚ of the short

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    In text 5‚ “To Build a Fire” by Jack London‚ and text 9‚ “Scott’s Last Expedition” by Robert Scott‚ there are similarities and differences. In text 5 the man tries building a fire and in text 9 the man knew the end was near. Each text proves man vs nature because they both struggle with the cold weather. In both texts‚ there are many similarities. One of the similarities each text had where the men had a destination to arrive at. For example‚ in text 9 Scott was supposed to meet his friends at

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    The Use of Foreshadowing Foreshadowing is a literary device that is often used by authors of short stories to keep the reader wanting to know more and keep them reading. In Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery‚” foreshadowing is utilized many times. “The Lottery” is tells of a ritual practiced by a village in which every person draws from a box to be stoned to death (sacrificed)‚ in order for a good harvest. Jackson uses foreshadowing to show that the lottery is actually a sacrifice by presenting

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    He is mean to me and yells at me constantly. My insides hurt. I follow the man walking along in the cold. I do not want to go‚ but he makes me follow him. I wish he could feel what I feel; even my fur hurts. He is going to where the other food and fire providers are‚ and I really want to make it there soon‚ for I am very hungry and cold. He makes me run ahead of him and I fall into the water. When I get back up‚ the water is hard in my fur and toes. I can’t let the hard water stay between my toes

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    How the time teach us‚ how we learn to build. Today I have to talk about Indians‚ Victorian style and suburbs. I will start by talking about‚ a indians‚ They have lived in America for more than 10‚000 years before European people came‚ and others Indians learn different ways to build houses depending on the place‚ temperature or land conditions. Some places do not have any material to build and they found out how. They made it. After that‚ people learned how to build better houses and new immigrants

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    If I could chose to live in any culture it would be Ancient Egypt. I have always been interested by the Ancient Egyptians and their ability to make pyramids. I find it really interesting how they were able to build pyramids of that size and style‚ especially so early on in human history. It is also interesting how they were able to make the pyramids in such a short amount of time. While it took about twenty years for the Great Pyramid of Giza to be built‚ it often took only ten years for the majority

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    environment and biology. Naturalists argued that the deterministic world is based on a series of links‚ each of which causes the next (for more on these causal links‚ see Causal links and processes‚ below). In "To Build a Fire‚" London repeatedly shows how the man does not have free will and how nature has already mapped out his fate. Indeed‚ both times the man has an accident‚ London states "it happened‚" as if "it" were an inevitability of nature and that the man had played no role in "it." The most

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