To Build A Fire: Significance Of Words "Dying" And "Death"
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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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.... 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 up so he ....
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