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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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    shaped‚ or determined‚ by their 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

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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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    The theme of Jack London’s 1908 version of “To Build a Fire” is that nature is indifferent to the needs of man and his survival. In the 1908 version‚ a half-wolf dog was added into the literary work to further the plot and significance of the story‚ highlighting this central theme of existence. The addition of the dog in the revision helped emphasize the theme by representing the primitivity of nature and providing contrast. By combining these two elements‚ London asserts his understanding of the

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    Mrs. Winningham English 1302.N02 March 22‚ 2013 Hubris’ 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

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    Call of the Wild and To Build a Fire were both exciting books about serving in the freezing cold attic yet they also have many differences. Call of the Wild is a story of a dog trying to survive the Alaskan gold rush. To Build a Fire follows a similar storyline yet it is about a man instead of a dog. Although the two books have many similarities such as where the book took place and the the style of writing they also have many differences such as the ending and the main character. Both books touched

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    “How to Build A Fire‚” and the short dialogue titled‚ “ Survival is the Ultimate Goal in World’s Toughest Sled Dog Race‚” there are many differences while at the same time there are many similarities. To begin the two have many similarities. One is that they both are in the same general parts of Alaska. In the article about the dog races it says‚ “Crossing to Dawson City-the old Klondike gold rush town that marks the Quest’s halfway point.” This is where the short story’s‚ “How to Build A Fire‚” setting

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    and extracurricular activities that it became too hard to function. My mother constantly told me‚ “When a person is stretched thin with many activities that the body’s immune system weakens”. Did I listen to her wise words? Well did the man in To build a fire listen to the old-timer from Sulphur Creek? No. Although I do not die in my story I felt as though I came pretty close‚ all because I thought I was better than the advice that was given. Two weeks before Christmas I had a heavy plate

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    imagine sitting on a uncomfortably hot beach with your injured leg tied up with a rag. The warm salt water laps at your feet as you try to get out the last of the water from a coconut. This is how life was for the newcomer from Jack London’s “To Build a Fire” and Chuck Noland from Robert Zemeckis’ Cast Away. They are both in very different situations‚ but both of their survival skills are put to the test. The newcomer is an arrogant and overconfident traveler who is trying to go out into the wilderness

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    questions‚ crying for a response‚ are debated studied and portrayed in both Jack London’s “To Build a Fire” and “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell. Throughout both stories‚ we see the settings‚ the Yukon in “To Build a Fire” and an island in the south Atlantic in “The Most Dangerous Game”‚ both raw untamed wildernesses‚ take a toll on the main characters in a very different fashion. We see in “To Build a Fire” that the man is constantly

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