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Corruption In Jack London

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Jack London portrays the character as very arrogant, because he believes he is more intelligent than anyone else in the story. Even though the man is new to the Yukon, and is aware of the dangers it can present, but he just thinks he can out smart nature by being simply prepared for it. This brings us to the main conflict, and that is the man versus his environment. The whole story he is just getting battered by the cold, and he just keep trying to push his way through it. Eventually, the cold does begin to take its toll on the man, and he starts to make mistakes. His first big one was not noticing the ice trap that was hidden beneath the snow, and caused him to get soaked half-way to his knees. The next error, and this was his greatest, was

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