An Analysis Of Jack London's To Build A Fire

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In “To Build a Fire” by Jack London, a man travels in the Yukon on an extremely cold morning with a husky wolf-dog. Despite the gloomy, bitter, numbing cold, the man is determined to get to Henderson Creek. The man fails to realize that nature is a powerful, unfeeling force with control over human life. He knows that his face and fingers are numb, but he fails to realize the seriousness of his circumstances until later in the story. As the story unfolds, the man gets progressively more worried about the situation. At first, he is simply aware of the cold; then be becomes slightly worried; finally, he becomes frantic. At the end of “To build a Fire”, the man regrets not listening to The Old Timer. In “To Build a Fire”, the unforgiving conditions