Identify three intances in Jack London’s “To build a Fire” where the protagonist’s attitude
toward nature changes and explain how these changes in attitude affect the trajectory of
the story.
Questions to consider:
-How doess the protangonist’s attitude change?
-what does the protagonist do to reflect his change in attitude?
-How does the protagonist attitude affect the story’s sequence of events?
Excerpts from “To build a Fire” by jack London:
He was safe. He remembered the advice of the old-timer on Sulphur Creek, and smiled. The old-timer had been very serious in laying down the law that no man must travel alone in
the Klondike after fifty below. Well, here he was; he had had the accident; he was alone; and he had saved himself. Those old-timers were rather womanish, some of them, he thought. all a man had to do was to keep his head, and he was all right. Any man who was a man could travel alone…
Then he grew very calm. Perhaps the old-timer on Sulphur Creek was right. If he had only
had a trail-mate he would have been in no danger now. The trail- mate could have built the fire…
The old-timer on Sulphur Creek was right, he thought in the moment of controlled despair
that ensued: after fifty below, a man should travel with a partner…
He drifted on from this to a vision of the old-timer on Sulpher Creek. he could see him quite
clearly, warm and comfortable, and smoking a pipe.
“You were right, old hoss; you were right,” the man mumbled to the old-timer of Sulphur
Creek.
Then the man drowsed off into what semmed to him the most comfortable sleep he had
ever known.
needs to be 200-250 words long and please dont make the writing look too professional,
Highschool level pls.
