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Nevertheless, this could’ve just reflected the man’s shock, and not the narrator’s concern. For the most part, the narrator seems not to care whether or not the character dies, and seems to only tell the story factually.

Nonetheless, Jack London constructs sentences that are incredibly descriptive, despite his bland and dispassionate tone. “Day had broken cold and gray, exceedingly cold and gray, when the man turned aside from the main Yukon trail and climbed the high earth bank […] he paused for breath at the top, excusing the act to himself by looking at his watch”.

Mentioning symbolism in the story, we look at an old theory: If an object or thing appears in the title of a story, it’s probably symbolic in some way. The presence of fire in this story represents life, and the absence of it shows that life is running out every minute, as is the case when the man’s fire gets blotted out by falling snow and he feels “as though he has just heard his own sentence of death”. In an everyday situation, getting your feet wet might not seem like the end of the world, but when that happens in the Yukon, building a fire quickly is more important than just building one. Whenever fire comes up in this story, you can constantly hear a tick-tock in the background.

Jack London wrote this story, with the aim to remind us that no matter how comfortable and cozy we feel inside our homes, there is always a brutal nature out there. We might never have to face it head-on ourselves, but it’s still out there. At the very least, the story gives us a great lesson in toughness and perseverance, and that we can never, and should never take survival and our surroundings for granted.

by Michelle – Honors Class

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