The main theme of London 's "To Build a Fire," is man versus nature. The man travels alone with just a native dog hoping to survive, ending up not making it through the harsh winter weather and ending up dying. Through the whole story everything keeps going downhill. For instance, the one good moment in the story, when he gets the fire lit, is soon accompanied by the worst moment when the fire is put out because of the snow falling on the fire from the trees above the fire. If the man would have just placed the fire in a more open spot and not under a canopy of trees this wouldn 't have happened.
man and man vs. nature. From before the start of this story, Ulrich and Georg are sworn enemies sought to cause the demise of the other, and there is an evident conflict between them. But, the story is set in a dark forest, during a storm, and this would be an example of a man vs. nature conflict. The second storm complicates the situation in the second paragraph, when the storm causes a beech tree to land on the two characters. They are unable to move, and both must wait for their own men to arrive and rescue him.
The main theme of London 's "To Build a Fire," is man versus nature. The man travels alone with just a native dog hoping to survive, ending up not making it through the harsh winter weather and ending up dying. Through the whole story everything keeps going downhill. For instance, the one good moment in the story, when he gets the fire lit, is soon accompanied by the worst moment when the fire is put out because of the snow falling on the fire from the trees above the fire. If the man would have just placed the fire in a more open spot and not under a canopy of trees this wouldn 't have happened.
The most important of the four environmentalists is Tyrone Tierwater, the nervous and paranoid main character. Throughout the story Tyrone goes through a series of strong emotions and inner conflict, making him the perfect poster child for the attitude most people have when it comes to the environment. After analyzing him it is evident that, in “The Siskiyou, July 1989” by T.C. Boyle, the fictional character Tyrone Tierwater is a metaphorical representation of society’s anxieties when it comes to environmental issues. Tyrone’s character effectively represents human anxieties surrounding environmental issues by way of his ongoing internal conflict.
The stories had drastically different end results, characters, symbols, and plot; however, no matter the differences between a story, stories can still share the same message. In the story Freezing by Peter Stark, the character finds danger as his car no longer works and he needs to travel the 6 mile distance to his friends. Extreme hypothermia sets in and he battles to make it. His friends find him near death and he manages to become revived. In the story To Build a Fire by Jack London, the main character embarks through the Yukon with his dog to meet “the boys”, but ultimately dies as a result of many setbacks and mistakes including hypothermia and ignorance of instinct.
London includes this quote to show how nature was making it a challenge for the man to build a fire in order to survive. Another scenario that he uses was when the snow from the tree fell onto the fire that the man had built. London shows just how challenging it is to survive in the environment when he states, “It grew like an avalanche, and it descended without warning upon the man and the fire, and the fire was blotted out!” (85). London includes this quote to show
“What Happened During the Ice Storm” is at a superficial level a story about boys who, during an ice storm head outside to kill some pheasants for their supper, instead they feel sorry for the cold, frozen birds, and lend them their coats. However, by looking beneath the surface, we see Heynen conveying that the naivety of children needs to be removed in order to enable children to grow up which is a key element in pushing one 's moral boundaries. Heynen’s theme of overcoming naivety is portrayed though passing down traditions from father to son. During the storm the fathers went out “with clubs to harvest the pheasants that sat helplessly in the roadside ditches.” (1) The boys also went out in the “freezing rain” to also find some pheasants to ‘harvest’, but unlike the farmers they had brought no sacks or clubs nothing but themselves. When the other farmers clubbed the cold and helpless pheasants, the boys took a different approach at the situation at hand.
Uncle Victor tells the four children, Peter, Michael, Helga, and Peter’s little sister, Lovisa, to bury the gold in the place with the two fallen trees and build the snowmen on the place where the gold is buried. At the first day of the gold-delivering, the Nazi infantry captain, who was in their way, thought that the children were just having fun, sledding, and he turned his army aside to avoid spoiling their sledding. After that day, the children buried the gold successfully every day. The children knew and were familiar with some of the Germans. Peter often saw the soldier with blue eyes who once looked at the children as if he wanted to go to sledding, too.
The northern wind of the winter evening awoke the pastor from his stupor. How did I lose him and where is he off too? Recalling their short conversation word for word, he did not notice the fluctuating wind, only the tortured tone of the confused teen. What commandments did he really break? What brutal acts did he not stop?
Literary Analysis The short story To Build a Fire by Jack London is a story showing the determination of a man's desire to survive and his traveling mate his dog. During the story the man seems unworried about the cold and the frost that began to come across his body as he was going on his hike, however the dog who doesn't understand dangour can slowly start to show signs that something is going to happen. As the story begins to progress the man starts going into small panics after realizing his fingers froze and his ability to build a fire becomes non existent. The story is very similar to the popular movie Lone Survivor. The movie is about a group of elite U.S. seals that gets caught in a hell storm and the four men must fight against hundreds