Analysis: To Build A Fire By London Jack

No one plans or even wants to lose their life due to an unfortunate mishap. Wouldn’t it be better to check twice, and to think ahead? No wonder our mothers ask so many questions before we leave the house. Jack London’s “To Build A Fire” causes distress in readers’ minds and makes them wonder how a simple topic can turn out to be so horrific.

Marcus Aurelius once said “Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.” The meaning behind this quote is that someone shouldn’t be afraid of death because it’s inevitable. In both of the stories, “To Build a Fire” and “The Law of Life”, the main characters face the inevitable: death. The main characters handle death in different ways but in similar places. The stories “To Build a Fire” and “The Law of Life” have many similarities and differences in their setting, characters, and theme.

“I know about how harmless and gentle and dreamy he was supposed to be, how he’d never hurt a fly, how he didn’t care about money and power and fancy clothes and automobiles and things, how he wasn’t like the rest of us, how he was better than the rest of us, how he was so innocent he was practically jesus….”, explained Marvin Breed. In the funeral shop, Marvin spoke to Jonah about the gossip that surrounded Felix Hoenikker when he first moved to Illium County. In the excerpt, Marvin’s emphasis on words like, “...supposed to be…”, and “...he was practically Jesus….”, reveal that Felix Hoenikker preconceived reputation was different from the Felix they all grew to know. In the novel “Cat’s Cradle” by Kurt Vonnegut, his character Dr. Felix Hoenikker serves as an important villain in the story due to his lack of wisdom, his similarities to the real life Dr. Langmuir, and absence of humanity. Intertwined in the plot of the novel are characters that have influences from real life people, such as Dr. Felix Hoenikker inspiration

What drives us to undertake a mission? What drives people to undertake a mission depends on how much they want to achieve there mission. Farah Ahmedi, Walt, and Stanley Pierce all wanted to undertake a mission. They all achieved there mission. Farah wanted freedom, Walt promised to watch a land, and Stanley wanted to strike rich.

Jack London’s background and personal beliefs are reflected in his short story To Build a Fire. In this short story, the narrator is traveling through the harsh environment of the Yukon but due to his lack of imagination and experience he finds himself in a life threatening situation. As the man navigates a frozen river, he is in high alert of streams flowing beneath the snow that could cause the ice to give way beneath him. After avoiding patches of the streams, he sits down to eat his lunch but forgets to build a fire. When they start back down the trail, the dog has to be forcefully called to the man’s heals because the instincts in the animal are telling it to burrow down in the snow.

In his novel, “Into the wild “ by Jon Krakauer explains about a young man going outside of the society. I'm going to explain about McCandless attitude against civilization versus nature. I’m also going to be discussing his feelings about the government and law,Family, and friends. Chris McCandless wanted to see how it would feel to live outside the society.

Think about how people see or interpret the world, often times it 's more idealistic than realistic. The writers reveal a specific version of reality, to get the readers to recognize this they use themes, central ideas, and, stylistic choices. In the Jungle it shows you the horrendous conditions of meat factories. The unhealthy chemicals in flavors that are in our everyday foods as explained in Fast Food Nation. An in the text to Build a Fire which shows you how a person can be so idealistic they don 't see the reality that 's right in front, risky their own life.

What does it take to be a Stotan? Does it take tremendous courage and brute strength? Or being head strong? A Stotan is a cross between a Stoic and a Spartan. Lion Serbousek is a swimmer on the swim team at the Frost High School.

Once upon a time, the legends say, there was in the Kingdom of Moor a church whose stained glass windows wept; if you drank the their tears, say the same legends, the gods would bestow upon you a miracle – that which you desired most would become yours. Pilgrims soon began to gather, and if at first their desires were noble, the more people that came, the more tainted the wishes of their hearts were. And thus one fated day the windows stopped weeping; only when one the saints within them judged virtuous approached did they began their mourn anew. Many came, and many were turned away by the coldness of the immovable glass.

Sticking two black button eyes on our snowman, I turned and gave Charlie a high-five. " Finished!" I said. "And there 's not a finer snowman in the whole neighborhood." But Charlie wasn 't looking at me.

Many colored individuals were forced into slavery and each and everyone of the slaves had a different experience with their master. The slaves were treated as if they were nothing, a piece of property that the white people owned. They were not allowed to learn how to read or write; only needed to know how to do their chores and understand what their master was saying. They were just an extra hand in the house that had no say or existed in the white people world. The slaves’ job was to obey their master or mistress at all times, do their chores and take the beating if given one.