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How Did Jack London's Message In To Build A Fire

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No one plans or even wants to lose their life due to an unfortunate mishap. Wouldn’t it be better to check twice, and to think ahead? No wonder our mothers ask so many questions before we leave the house. Jack London’s “To Build A Fire” causes distress in readers’ minds and makes them wonder how a simple topic can turn out to be so horrific. In “To Build A Fire” the central message is survival of the fittest in the world. He died because he was not able to make it back without freezing to death. The man didn’t care, and he didn’t realize how serious it was. The man thought he was powerful and could beat nature, but that’s not what ended up happening. Like the author said, “ Fifty degrees below zero stood for a bite of frost that hurt... “ (London 332). The dog knew how cold it was and wanted to go back, but the man had no sense of the danger they were facing. “ He was quick and alert in the things of life but only in the things, and not in the significances” …show more content…

When talking about his theory throughout the essay he says “They killed seventy-two of those great animals and ate part of one of them and left the seventy one to rot.” (Twain 374) This quote proves that human beings are wasteful, and only care about themselves. Humans just kill for fun, and instead of cleaning up after themselves they just leave it there to rot as if the animals were never alive in the first place. Twain proves that not all animals behave like humans by saying, “The grateful reptile immediately crushed one of them and swallowed it, then lay back satisfied. It showed no further interest in the calves and no disposition to harm them.” (Twain 374) Although humans believe to be the highest animals, their actions prove otherwise. All of these negative and selfish actions make man the lowest animal. “The Lowest Animal” shows the real colors of humans in

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