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To Build A Fire: Significance of Words "Dying" and "Death"


The significance of the words "dying and death" in Jack London's 1910 novel, "To
Build a Fire" continuously expresses the man's dwindling warmth and bad luck in
his journey along the Yukon trail to meet "the boys" at camp. London
associates dying with the man's diminishing ability to stay warm in the frigid
Alaskan climate. The main characters predicament slowly worsens one level at a
time finally resulting in death.

The narrator informs the reader "the man" lacks personal experience travelling
in the Yukon terrain. The old-timer warned the man about the harsh realities of
the Klondike. The confident main character thinks of the old-timer at Sulphur
Creek as "womanish." Along the trail, "the man" falls into a hidden spring and
attempts to build a fire to dry his socks and warm himself. With his wet feet
quickly growing numb, he realizes he has only one chance to successfully build a
fire or face the harsh realities......

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