To Build a Fire

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A Spin of Emotions

Jack London 's To Build a Fire ' is a story that narrates of a man 's journey through a snow-laid plane , in the course showing his inner traits and features . Reading through the prose , the man 's characteristics--- being logical , systematic , and unfortunate--- bubbles up in the surface

The man is logical . The trouble with him was that he was without imagination . Fifty degrees below zero meant eighty odd degrees of frost . It did not lead him to meditate upon

his frailty as a creature of temperature , and upon man 's frailty in general , able only to live within certain narrow limits of heat and cold (London , par . 3 ) The main character of the story is one who views life like everything is calculated and can only be deciphered by scientific formulae . A man only of reasoning , the cold touch of the frost , for him , only stands for degrees in Celsius or Fahrenheit . Because of this reason , his emotions and inner human instincts are somehow blocked . He is not able to imagine what his journey in such drastic weather conditions might result to and he can just think of how cold it is and how long will it take him to reach his destination

He is systematic . On top , tangled in the underbrush about the trunks of several small spruce trees , was a high-water deposit of dry firewood . He threw down several large pieces on top of the snow . The flame he...