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"To Build A Fire"

The human body is astonishing. Even with its ability to regulate its temperature, to a certain extent, we can only survive in an extremely low range of temperature. Once this range of temperatures has been exceeded, the human body begins to loss certain function essential for survival. A great example of this is the realistic fiction story written by Jack London. This story takes place in the Alaskan Yukon, where a man is prospecting for gold. "The trouble with the man was that he was without imagination. H was quick and alert in the things of life, but only the things, and not in the significance"(p221). As the man is out prospecting, he realizes that the temperature has begun to ...

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memory. This is shown when the man sits down for lunch, removes his mittens and unzipped his jacket. "The action consumed no more than a quater of a minute, yet in that brief moment the numbness laid hold of the exposed fingers" (p.227). Then the man strikes his fingers against his leg and is immediately met with a sharp pain. He then places his fingers back in the mitten and removes his other hand to finish his lunch. However, when the man tries to take a bite from the biscuit, the ice muzzle stopped him. "He had forgotten to build a fire and thaw out" (p.227). This was the first in a series of mistakes which led to his death. The next thing to be affected by the cold was his awareness. This is demonstrated when the man attempts build the next fire under a spruce tree. "Each time he had pulled a twig off, he had communicated a slight agitation to the tree---an imperceptible agitation, so far as he was concerned in, but an agitation significant to bring about the disaster. ...

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Added: 9/24/2004 11:35:10 PM
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