Category: To Build a Fire

Jack Londons story, To Build A Fire is about a struggle of survival between man and nature, which happens through overconfidence and arrogance as opposed to experience and intelligence. These struggles arise through the man’s arrogance and overconfidence by ignoring the signs of nature. The man tries hard to meet his boys at the agreed…

Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Jack Londons To Build a Fire are two stories that are similar in the way that both men embark on a journey into the unknown and face a threat to themselves within it. The two narratives have like features and similarities in their plots, settings, and themes. These…

The man came to terms with the fact that he was going to die. He was well aware that he made a mistake and his fight was over, but he did his best to survive. London explains how, Well, he was bound to freeze anyway, and he might as well take it decently. With this…

On a bleak and dreary Yukon day, the man in Jack Londons To Build a Fire, embarks on a quest searching for gold. Although an old-timer advises the man to not venture out in such frigid cold, the man decides that he is well-equipped for his journey and can make it alone using only his…

Regarding the protagonist, I would definitely say that rather than portraying free will, he is completely under natures thumb, meaning that his every move is predetermined, destined if you will. Throughout the story, as mentioned earlier, determinism of the mans fate is portrayed through natures indifference, which she shows mercilessly in different ways. For example,…

When man faces against nature, he does not win. In To Build a Fire Jack London explores this theme. The unnamed protagonist overestimates his own abilities while lacking to understand how unforgiving mother nature is. He ventures out when it’s below fifty degrees does every possible thing he can think of to try to survivewhile…