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    Levi was pissed. It didn’t seem fair‚ he had just damn near died yet Cain was still insisting that he replace the firewood he stole. Ya think he could give a guy a couple of days to heal up‚ but noooooo. A brisk northeasterly wind froze his face‚ shelter from the Enchanted Forest a welcome windbreak. And now I have to ask these damn trees which one of them is going to let me cut it down. Weary‚ watery‚ wind burnt eyes scanned the woods‚ eventually seizing on a tree about the right size needing

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    zero (London 78). He never realized until body parts were numb that the cold was dangerous. Also‚ he had ignored the advice from an old-timer he had met at Sulfur Creek: “No man must travel alone in the Klondike after fifty below‚” (London 85). The man‚ instead of going with someone‚ idiotically left his group of friends to see if he could profit from logging in the Yukon (London 78). Finally‚ after not seeing any harbingers of springs for half an hour‚ he suddenly falls in a hole (London 83). Perhaps

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    Where did she go? Where could she have gone? Oh‚ no. Oh‚ no… Laura fondles about the rugged forest terrain‚ cautiously edging from root to tree trunk by her mangled knees. Her grasp begged for the small‚ fluffy coat of her cat‚ Jupiter‚ who scampered off into the Douglas fir forest’s abyss a forgotten length of time ago. There is nothing beyond what she can immediately sense around her. The world returns when her hand meets the surface or she detects a tiny‚ secluded meow among the trees‚ and disappears

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    Once upon a time‚ there was a young huntsman roaming the forests. He was happy‚ enjoyed being free‚ and frolicking about. As he was enjoying the smell of nature he caught a whiff of something foul. He followed the putrid aroma to a clearing where he discovered the rotting corpse of an old crone. She was in the rigor mortis stage of death‚this he could tell by the stiffness of her body. The huntsman was overwhelmed by the stench so much that his eyes burned from the odor .He was covering his nose

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    CHAPTER THREE Chris felt his stomach drop and his head spin. He tried to scream but the fall stole any sound. He knew no one could survive this fall. He saw Rose down below him. He clamped his eyes shut. The fall continued. Suddenly he felt himself slow down. His skin tickled and burned. His lips went dry and his hands numb. The heat increased as they went farther down. Their descent slowed and the tickling stopped. Finally‚ Chris felt his feet touch ground and heaved

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    Pepys about the Great Fire of London in 1666‚ text B being a news article on a fire that devastated Tasmania a few year ago. Do the texts have similarities? Despite there being about a 300-year difference between the two articles written there are actually quite a few similarities. Firstly‚ both the texts are written in first person and in a personal way. They use the same pronouns‚ the pronouns being ‘I’ and ‘us’. They both also talk about a very similar topic being a fire that took the lives and

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    Execution When men challenge nature they allow themselves no fate aside from death. Jack London and Franz Kafka each orchestrate settings comparable to hell in their short stories “To Build a Fire” and “The Hunger Artist”‚ respectively. London references “Sulphur Creek”‚ where the man first received warnings of his ignorant decisions‚ and “burning brimstone”‚ these words are commonly associated with hell itself (London 317-325). Symbolism is used to indicate how these characters voluntarily confine

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    In To Build a Fire‚ written by Jack London‚ and The Story of an Hour‚ written by Kate Chopin‚ both contain many similarities while also being unique in their own way. Both To Build a Fire‚ and The Story of an Hour heavily discuss the idea of death and independence. However‚ there are differences in the stories that include themes of confidence‚ and the idea of free will. In The Story of an Hour‚ and To Build a Fire both go in depth discussing the theme of death using it as an ending to their story

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    Compare / Contrast (Quart. Test) To Build A Fire & The Law of Life To Build A Fire and The Law of Life are short stories written by American author Jack London. They both tell the stories of people in harsh environment‚ but they are not exactly the same. The author showed different ideas in these two stories. To Build A Fire is a story about an old man walked alone on the Yukon Trail in a extremely cold weather. He tried to build a fire twice and failed at last‚ it made he lost his hope of life

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    HOW TO BUILD A FIRE In how to build a fire the main character fail in many different ways.one of the Way’s he failed in the story was the lack of knowledge of winter travelling.one of the other way he failed was experienced in extreme cold weather. The nature and the weather are one of the last things that killed him in the end. A thesis. the thoroughly analyze the character’s demise. In the story the lack of character knowledge of the land and winter traveling was a problem for him.

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