The character Thomas Builds-The-Fire from This is What it Means To Say Phoenix‚ Arizona helps his named friend Victor‚ by giving him some money and going all the way to Arizona. Victor father had just passed away and is in very much need of money to help bury his father and get his belongings from where his passed away at. Thomas has known victor for a very long period of time‚ they use to play together as boys‚ but soon faded away from each other over a fight. Thomas is a full blood-Indian who is
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Background Call of the wild written by Jack London was set during the Yukon gold rush in the frigid klondike. The reader is introduced to the main character Buck who was taken from his owner Judge Miller who lived in California. The man who took Buck manuel‚ was the judges gardener. Buck was kidnapped because his breed of dog is used in the Klondike to pull sleds and haul freight. Along Buck’s journey to the klondike he meets a mysterious man only know to the reader as “The Man In The Red Sweater
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Earthquake Madness and Jack London‚ an Eyewitness Did you know that San Francisco had an earthquake that completely destroyed most of the city in 1906? The Story of an Eyewitness by Jack London is a close up detailed memoir of this event. In 1906‚ there was a major earthquake in San Francisco that destroyed most of the city. After the earthquake many fires broke out‚ forcing people out of their homes and businesses‚ and also there was many fatalities. Jack London uses excellent literary devices when
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Francisco was wrecked by a powerful earthquake and for the next few days was consumed by fires that destroyed a large portion of the city. Jack London writes a hair-raising description of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. The earthquake destroyed many buildings and also started fires. The fires spread quickly throughout the city. The fires lasted two days‚ Wednesday morning until Thursday night. The fires destroyed almost all of the buildings‚ hotels‚ stores‚ and houses in San Francisco. People
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and if had known them better‚ he could of had a higher rate to survive. The man in the story To build a fire‚ did not have many skills to do and could have improved in many ways shown below… Survival skills is not something that the old man had and needed to improve on.The man could not strike a match because of how cold it was and he had injured his arms and feet because of not been able to build a fire. “Twenty times he scratched before he succeeded in lighting it. As it flamed he held it with his
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the movement of Naturalism. Naturalism is a writing style that aims at recreating nature in its entirety. An element similar to naturalism‚ determinism is a style which expresses that all outcomes are the result of an unbroken chain of previous actions. Yet another extension of naturalism‚ social Darwinism takes the theory of Charles Darwin‚ survival of the fittest‚ and applies it to characters in a story. A story that utilizes all of these styles is Jack London’s To Build a Fire; and it does so
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Jack London is a well-renowned author with titles including White Fang and his most famous novel: The Call of the Wild. London gains his reputation with his style of writing which builds interest in the reader while relating what the characters are facing in the story. This style is also seen in his brilliant short story "To Build a Fire." In "To Build a Fire‚" London helps the reader to relate to the story by introducing themes that humanity must deal with at some point in its life; ignorance
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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
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Naturalism According to the powerpoints provided by the reporters‚ Naturalism exhibits the helplessness of man against nature; man is dependent on nature for survival reasons but nature does not depend on man in order to exist. Man’s struggle to overcome nature and have full reign over it would be futile as nature has its way that man would not be capable of predicting and avoiding‚ thus‚ leading to his defeat‚ which is ultimately death. It presents nature as indifferent‚ making use of environmental
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The story To Build a Fire demonstrates possible dangers of traveling in the Yukon under extreme cold. Through a young man‚ Jack London depicts the consequences of ignoring instinct and survival advice. The man travels with a dog‚ who can perceive the dangers of the freezing wilderness. The reader learns of the man’s personality through descriptive words and phrases while journeying through the story. At the beginning of the story the man turned aside from the main trail. He stopped at the top
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