The man is supposed to catch up on the evening in Henderson Creek his associates (named “the boys”) who have taken another way to go there. During this not so long journey of nine hours of hiking, he is accompanied by a husky dog. An unnamed man is walking on the snow and on the frozen river as well, despite the extreme polar temperatures of the winter (?75 ☏ or ?59 ☌). The story takes place in the Yukon Territory, near the Klondike River (Canada). Nature (the hero struggles against an animal or a force of nature and this struggle has a prominent place inside the story). He wrote two different versions of this short story that he published in 1902 and in 1908 respectively : here I am going to focus on the second one which is far more interesting for us to discuss about.įirst and foremost, it is worth noting that To Build A Fire is part of the naturalist movement (naturalistic writers used literature as an experiment to discover and analyze the forces or the scientific laws, that influenced the character’s behavior, its emotions in its environment) and because of that, the short story illustrates a major topic : the conflict of Man vs. As you probably guess, London dealt particularly with adventure and wildness in his books’ story since he was himself an adventurer and a sailor. To Build A Fire (1908) is a short story written by Jack London, a famous American author well known for some literature masterpieces as The Call Of The Wild (1903), and White Fang (1906). I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. “I would rather be ashes than dust ! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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