For this discussion assignment I chose ’To Build a Fire’ by the great writer Jack London to read and wrote. I read summaries which were written by my fellow students last week. Their description encourages me to read this story‚ specially Reza Hosseini‚ when she wrote "Jack London also had a great interest in nature‚animals and the ups and downs of human relations with them"(Hosseini‚ (2017‚March 1)‚ posted on discussion forum Unit5). In this story‚ London told us about a journey made in freezing
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Doing things on your own and doing something to make others happy takes a lot of perseverance. In The Call of the Wild Buck starts off just a normal dog‚ but‚ he perseveres into a tough‚ independent dog who can stick up for himself. That can relate to my mom’s situation. My mom had to go back to her sophomore year in college when her dad was sick in the hospital with cancer. She had to learn to be okay and deal with it on her own. She needed to be strong for her family. Buck and my mom started off
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Imagine this you are stuck in the alaskan tundra with only your dog and a piece of flint. Well this is what our main character has to deal with in the story “To Build a Fire” by Jack London. In “To Build a Fire” Jack London uses a lot of different conflicts to illustrate the idea of naturalism. One of the first conflicts in the story is not prevalent‚ but a nuisance nonetheless. The mans dog is a natural conflict that he faces while trying to survive the alaskan tundra. The dog wants to bed down
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Author Jack London’s “To Build a Fire” is a short story portraying a prime example of naturalistic writing and Darwin’s scientific belief regarding “survival of the fittest‚” discovered during the naturalism era. “To Build a Fire” exemplifies naturalism by using nature as an antagonist and showing how characters‚ such as the man in the story‚ live a trapped life and are constantly dominated by the environment. In the story‚ the freezing cold weather acts as a trap toward the man who was trying to
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seen the sun in days. Jack London‚ the author of To Build A Fire‚ goes into immense detail throughout the story to draw his readers into the setting of the crisp winter chill. London’s vast description of the environment allows his readers to picture every single object throughout the mountains as if the reader was experiencing the exact situation. As the protagonist travels miles to reach his destination where his friends await him with food and fires‚ the setting intensifies the man’s conflicts and
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Dr. Campbell Composition II 10/20/2010 Snow-blind In Jack London’s short story “To build a fire” a man sets out with his dog in extreme cold temperatures confident in arriving at their campsite where the man’s friends are waiting. London uses the element of foreshadowing to hint at the traveler’s impending doom. The first example of foreshadowing can be found where the man acknowledges that there certainly are risks that are included in the undertaking of his adventure. London writes “he knew
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cannot control nature‚ man can defeat nature. However‚ human errors can cause nature to defeat man. The two main guides‚ Rob hall and Scott Fischer in Into thin Air and the Man in “To Build a Fire” errors played a huge role in their battle against nature. In Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air and Jack London’s “To Build a Fire”‚ man’s propensity to underestimate nature’s strengths and excessive pride led to nature’s victory. In Into Thin Air‚ the guides’ propensity to underestimate nature’s strengths was
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Jack London’s book‚ The Call of the Wild is about a domestic house dog who is thrown into the unknown and harsh life of a Klondike sled dog. This book was banned and removed from the high school curriculum for reasons that suggest animal cruelty‚ violent scenes‚ and dark tone and themes that are not suitable for younger children. Despite these reason‚ The Call of the Wild should remain in the curriculum because it also contains some reoccurring themes of perseverance and bravery that many could learn
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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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Good examples of this would be Call of the Wild by Jack London‚ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain‚ and An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Stephen Crane (Examples of Realism in Literature…). Each of these stories is a fictionalized contemporary work from the time period it was written. Call of the Wild was the tragic story of a man and a dog during the discovery of gold in the Yukon Territory in Canada; The
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