To Build A Fire By Jack London

Among the authors of the Realistic Period in literature, one of them had a unique style that was more vivid than the rest. As the definition of vivid goes, his stories evoke clear images of the scenarios and can create powerful feelings of the situations his characters face. This author is none other than Jack London, whose stories often focus on the Gold Rush which occurred in the Yukon of the late 1800’s. His stories hold themes quite similar to other authors of this age, yet he manages to bring them about more strikingly. London’s vivid style is present in his use of concrete imagery, symbolism, long descriptions, and specific measurements, which come together to form his naturalistic themes about life in the Yukon. After his experience

Main themes within his writings are about nature’s superiority to man, how difficult it is for man to survive on their own, and how frail human life is in the hands of raw wilderness. They typically stick to the idea of man’s weakness in nature, and strongly reflect the literary movement of Naturalism. All of these themes are introduced to the stories in very similar, if not the same portion of the writing. Parts where the men are met with a dangerous situation and some form of nature is doing just fine portrays each of the themes, and shows the reader how London himself saw

This story focuses on how animals have the instinct to survive, and are capable of surviving and lasting in harsh environments, while humans lack this instinct and must struggle with all they have just to make it. In “Love of Life”, the story focuses more on how man must struggle to survive in the wild, but instead of facing harsh climate, the man is facing starvation and lack of supplies. The animals around him elude his grasp and rub his helplessness in his face, as the fox did when it managed to catch a ptarmigan when he so desperately tried and failed. This story is shedding light on how humans must fight so hard to get what they need or do what they must to survive, while for animals it comes so naturally. These stories come together with the idea that nature is far more superior to