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This story compelled me to evaluate choices made by a character in a life or death situation. 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 the camp. London associates dying with the man's diminishing ability to stay warm in the freezing Alaskan climate. The main character's condition slowly gets worse one level at a time finally resulting in death. The narrator informs the reader the man lacks personal experience traveling in the Yukon. The old-timer warned the man about the harsh realities of the Klondike. The confident main character thinks of the old timer as teenagers often think of their parents; he does not know what he is talking about. Along the trail, the man falls into a hidden spring and he attempts to build a fire to dry his socks and keep warm. With his wet feet quickly growing numb, he......

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