Wednesday, February 17, 2010
To Build A Fire
This passage by Jack London was quite interesting. When I first began to this story I didn’t think it would catch my attention like the way it did. This story is about a man traveling through some pretty harsh weather, but he thinks that he can do it and do it alone. There seems to be a bit of forecasting in this story; the man realizes that an elder man told him that no man alone can travel the path he is taking alone in such harsh weather as such. Obviously he did not listen, and with his luck the one thing that he is trying to avoid the whole journey, brings him to his demise. In class we talked about how this story is basically about nature versus man. On this journey the man tried to take on nature single handedly and sadly, lost. He was told by someone who had more wisdom to not travel alone, but he truly believed that he could travel alone and would need no help getting him to his destination. He tried all he could to stay alive, but in the end his efforts meant nothing as he fell asleep forever.
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This story definitely keeps your attention just like Mr.Dotson said. At first it does not, but once you get into the story the reader begins to wonder about what is going to happen to the man and the dog, and if they are going to make it. At first the man seems like a brave, strong man. He is not afraid to travel in such cold, harsh weather all by himself. When a couple of things go wrong he does not seem to freak out about it but stays calm. It changes at the end of the story though because when he decides that he is going to die he just gives up and he is no longer strong but very weak.
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