Jack London's To Build A Fire: Theme
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The significance of the words "dying and death" in Jack London's 1910 novel,
"To Build a Fire" continuously expresses the man's dwindling warmth and bad luck
in his journey along the Yukon trail to meet "the boys" at camp. London
associates dying with the man's diminishing ability to stay warm i ....
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.... freezing. Falling snow from a tree
blots out the fire and the character realizes "he had just heard his own
sentence of death." Jack London introduces death to the reader in this scene.
The man realizes "a second fire must be built without fail." The man's
mind begins to run wild with thoughts of insecurity and death when the second
fire fails. He recollects the story of a man who kills a steer to stay warm and
envisions himself killing his dog and crawling into the carcass to warm u ....
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