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To Build A Fire Essay

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The Short Story ‘To Build a Fire ‘by. Jack London is about man vs. nature. The story takes place in Yukon, Canada, east of Alaska. It’s so cold your spilt is ice before it hits the ground. Temperature from 25degress to -75 it can cause your flesh to freeze. A stream of rocks is now a freeze steam of rocks you can walk on. Everything frozen from the trees, to the ground. The Conflict between the man and nature is that it’s so cold it’s difficult for him to survive. He traveled the trail with his dog to find a place to build a fire. As he felt his hands and parts of his body go out because he was cold. He stops about to begin to build a fire, he was trying very hard to use his hands but it was freezing up. Although

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