Jack Londons To Build A Fir

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Jack London's 'To Build A Fir'

     Jack London uses the devices of  plot, setting, and characterization in this short
story "To Build A Fire" to convey his message that humans need to be social.  London
sets an average, middle-aged logger in a deserted Yukon trail during a wintry season.  The
temperature is seventy-five degrees below zero and the logger and his husky are traveling
towards Henderson Creek, about ten miles away, where the logger's companions are
located.  London places the man in this Yukon environment to symbolize that in this cold,
cruel world, we need to learn how to benefit from each other.
     Prior to embarking on his journey, the logger is given advice from an old-timer
at Sulfur Creek that "no man must travel alone in the Klondike after fifty below".  The
logger thinks this is "rather womanish" and believes he can survive by himself.  Along his
journey, the man encounters death as he falls into a spring, where  "At a place where there
were no s...

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