In the story, “To Build A Fire,” Jack London uses a the man’s incompetence to build up the story till the end, where he dies. From the very beginning the man seemed to be very self confident that he would make the trip in a day with only one break to keep warm. The man thought he was really smart, so he didn’t take advice from anyone, not even himself. The dog, the old man, and his own body was telling him to stop and keep warm. Even though the man did fall into some trouble that wasn’t his fault, when he tried to get out of it, he made a bad choice that eventually led to his demise. In the plot, the story starts off with the man walking with his dog to find a camp where his friends are. He was not used to cold weather, so he thought that he would be okay with one stop, which we learn later that was not a wise choice. The man seems very dumb to think that one stop with a fire would be enough for the long journey. By listening to the old man when he left, he could have avoided a lot of situations by doing this. When his first stop ended, the man was put into a bad situation by falling into a pocket of water, which the man was able to wiggle his way out, but his legs began to stiffen with ice. He would have noticed the water pocket if he was paying attention to where he was walking. After getting out, needed to get …show more content…
I feel like this man is at peace when he died, though it was a terrible death, that could have been avoided, this man accepted his death. It might have been the fact that his body was numb from the cold but he seemed warm when he stopped running, so he decided to die in his sleep. Jack makes you think of what you would do in this situation. I would’ve prayed for my sins before dying, which I feel like that man was thinking before he eventually hit the