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Jack London's "To Build A Fire"
Title: Jack London's "To Build A Fire"
Category: Literature / European Literature
Details: Words: 433 | Pages: 1.8 (approximately 235 words/page)
Jack London's "To Build A Fire"
Jack London uses the devices of plot, setting, and characterization in this short
story 'To Build A Fire' to convey his message that humans need to be social. London
sets an average, middle-aged logger in a deserted Yukon trail during a wintry season. The
temperature is seventy-five degrees below zero and the logger and his husky are traveling
towards Henderson Creek, about ten miles away, where the logger's companions are
located. London places the man …showed first 75 words of 433 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 433 total…alone. If the man travels with a companion, he can benefit from him
and possibly return safely to camp.
London's point is achieved through these three devices to prove that the cause
of the logger's death is his rugged individualism which concludes to not having anyone to
benefit from. London's message is that all of us need to learn how to be social and learn
how to benefit from each other in order to survive.
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