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Nature can be a strong, brutal, and deadly or calm and peaceful, but it never lacks power and strength. It controls all of those within it, and man will never be able to control it. This is the way that Jack London portrays nature in The Law of Life, and To Build a Fire. Nature is a force that won't be reconed with. Nature can also be seen as connected to man, and mournful or angry when wrongs are committed. This is the way that Charle's Eastman uses nature in From the Deep Woods to Civilization. Both recognize the power and strangeness that nature creates. In both Eastman's work and London's work we see the romanticism of nature, and of death. London shows it as powerful and unsympathetic while Eastman shows it as a peaceful signifier of death.

London uses nature in a more brutal and relentless sense than we see in Eastman. The characters in his stories The Law of Life, and To Build a Fire are in a battle with nature for their lives. the both take place up North in......

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