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How to Build a Fire Are you willing to risk your life just for a visit? Well this Yukon newcomer just happened to pick the wrong day to go on his 9 hour journey to visit his friends. He got hypothermia, frostbite, numbness in his fingers, and a crystal beard to emphasize the coldness. “It was seventy-five below” as said on the sixth paragraph and the fifth sentence and the freezing point is 32 above zero, that means one hundred and seven degrees of frost obtained. I think that Jack London kept reminding us how cold it was to emphasize it and to show what nature was putting him through by torturing him. “Day had broken cold and grey, exceedingly cold and grey.” As said on the first page and sentence. This is just one of the reasons why the main theme is man vs. nature. Which the storm could’ve happened any day but it had to happen the one day he had plans to visit his friends some people could argue that it was his fault. But I beg to differ what if he made these plans a while ago and couldn’t get a hold of his friends. Just to cancel and he didn’t want his friends to worry and send a search party for nothing. …show more content…

This could have been a misconception. for the guy he could have not known or sensed a storm coming on because sometimes when it I a clear day it is warm and some people are going to say it is winter and there are no warm days but there is warm days. Also, if nature wasn’t trying to throw him off there would have just been lots of grey clouds to indicate a storm

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