What does "To Build a Fire" by Jack London teach us about the faults of humanity?
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Monday, October 14, 2013
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In "To Build a Fire" by Jack London it teaches us about the faults of humanity be showing how cold can make you think differently. On page 6 when he made the fire under the spruce tree the snow fell on he fire and put it out. The cold affected him by making him lazy and not making the fire in the open where no avalanche of snow would fall on the fire and put it out.
ReplyDelete"To Build a Fire" by Jack London teach us about the faults of humanity. In a senesce that no mater how bad the situation is a and no matter how much if means to are survival warmth can not be replaced with a true friendship and a companion. Because when he was about to die from frost bite so he was going to cut open his dog and use its corps as warmth he could not bring himself to murder his companion. Now there may be some better points in the text this is what I took away from it.
ReplyDeleteIn the story "To Build a Fire" by Jack London it shows how humanity has faults. In the story on page 7 the man wanted to kill his dog and use the carcass to keep his hands warm. The man could not kill the dog though because his hands were frozen. He ended up just wrapping his arms around the dog. This shows how humanity can go to extremes to stay alive.
ReplyDeleteIn the story "To Build a Fire" by Jack London it explains and teaches us that humanity has faults. On page 6 the man builds a fire under the Spruce tree, which he should of built it out in the open. He might have had no common cense at the time but he found away around that, he used the twigs and branches off of the Spruce tree and just dumped them onto the fire.
ReplyDeleteThe story " To Build a Fire" by Jack London proves how humanity has its faults by telling a story of a man who pushes himself to the limits and then gives up. Throughout the story, London takes us through a story of a man who is trekking through a forest in the middle of winter to save some miners. When he reaches his absolute he quits right there and gives up. The fault In humanity is he didn't listen to the wise man and thought he could do anything. In the end, he disobeyed all the advice he had been given and it cost him his life.
ReplyDeleteIn the story "To Build a Fire" by Jack London shows how humanity has its fault by telling us about a mans journey through the freezing risky forest. Throughout the story he keeps struggling with issues that continue to pop up. Through all the struggles he trys and trys and doesn't even think about what the old wise man told him. The man finally gives up with no real resolution and before is death says "you were right, old hoss ; you were right". At the end he realises that he ignored the advice that could of saved his life.
ReplyDeleteIn the story 'To Build a Fire" by Jack London teaches us about the faults of humanity by telling us how a man struggles to stay alive in negative seventy five degrees while he makes constant mistakes. Throughout the story he make these constant mistakes like when he makes a fire to later have snow fall from a tree onto it. "High up in the tree one bough capsized its load of snow...and the fire was blotted out."
ReplyDeleteThe story "To Build a Fire" by Jack London teaches us the faults of humanity when a man journeys off through harsh land. The mans goal was to go find men, and help them out but was it worth all of the suffering he went through? This story shows us that even with a generous goal, the lengths to reach it might not be worth it. The man is traveling with almost nothing, his lunch and a dog. Through his journey, he is tested against the forces of nature with brutal weather that could end his life. He was given wise advice that could save his life, but in the end his wits went against the life saving protest, and it cost him his own life. "You were right, old hoss; you were right,"...
ReplyDeleteThe story "To Build a Fire" by Jack Landon shows many examples of humanity's faults by unfolding a story about a man who risked his life on a journey in Alaska and made thoughtful decisions as well as foolish decisions. Some might say that the man is extremely brave. I completely agree with this statement, but I also think he could have made some conscious decisions to help him get through the journey. A little while before the middle of his trip, he decided to take a lunch break. It is below freezing and he decides to take his gloves off and have a nice, relaxing lunch. He smokes his pipe and stays on a log for a while. This is a great example of humanity's faults. He also did not think to make a fire before he ate. Considering all of the circumstances in this certain situation, taking a relaxing lunch break is not a good idea. He needed to get moving and make it to the cabin alive. Unfortunately, he didn't make it in time. I believe that if he made wiser decisions on his trip, he could have made it alive.
ReplyDeleteThe the story "To Build a Fire" by Jack London shows the faults in humanity because the main character thinks he can overcome nature. In the beginning of the story an elderly man told the main character not to go by himself and not to go when it is getting really cold. But he didn't listen to him, he thought that because he was a man he could do anything. But in the inside he was really scared. For example on page 4 when he was crossing the river he let the dog go first because he was scared that he will fall in. An example of the man trying to overcome nature is when he was eating without his mittens and a fire. His fingers were frozen but that didn't stop him from eating. Also the cold air and the snow kept burning out his fire. At the end he knew that he should have listened to the elderly man. It is sort of like how our parents tell us not to do something but we do it anyways.
ReplyDeleteThe short story "To Build A Fire" by Jack London exposed many faults in humanity, by explaining a mans complicated journey in Alaska with his canine companion. Although the mans actions were brave, his thoughts were foolish. This was shown on page eight when the man was attempting to build a fire with ta match in his mouth. "Twenty times he scratched before he succeeded in lighting it. As it flamed he held it with his teeth to the birch-bark. But the burning brimstone went up his nostrils and into his lungs, causing him to cough spasmodically. The match fell into the snow and went out." This quote shows faults in humanity for the mans mindset was on lighting the fire to get feeling back into his toes and fingers but he had to overcome the obstacle of lighting the fire without his hands which shows a fault in humanity. Later leading to the mans death.
ReplyDeleteThe short story "To Build a Fire" by Jack London exposed many faults in humanity by explaining a Gold Miners journey up the Yukon river to meet up with his buddy's at there mining claim. The major fault shown is the fact that ego and arrogance can make or break one's journey and their life. This majorly occurs through the book when they are explaining what the old man had said to the young non-experienced man. The major thing the old man said to the miner was to not go up the pass but to wait a couple of days until the weather clears up. IF he would have waited he would have survived possibly. Another thing the man had sad to the miner was to go up with a buddy but the miners ego took over and made a bad choice.
ReplyDeleteThe short story "To Build a Fire" by Jack London shows that humans have faults by telling a story about a man freezing in the woods. The man in the story was forced to overcome many obstacles that were caused by human faults. In the story the man falls through the ice and had to stop for a hour, when the dog fell in all it had to do has lick the icicles of his paws and then was able to continue.
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ReplyDeleteThe story "To Build a Fire" by Jack London teaches us the faults of humanity when a man goes out in 75 degrees below 0 with nothing but his clothes, his dog, and and a small lunch. Because of human faults the man thought he could just go out and survive because man is superior. this is a human fault because he was too self confedint about what he could do when the dog knew that they shouldn't be going out in such fatle conditions. In the story he doesnt listen to a man who told him how to survive a situation like this and pays the conoquesnces. With the man was his dog and his dog just naturaly knows what to do but humans on the other hand dont, so that is a human fault because the human did not know jsut what to do to survive. this story shows that in this situation humans are very faulted and animals have the better sence in this case. In the end it is clear that the man had made a bad chocie of eaither trying to prove something he didnt have to prove or wait a few more days when it was safe to travel
ReplyDeleteIn "To Build a Fire" by Jack London it teaches us that humans are not as smart as once thought. Many humans think that they can do more than they really can. They think very highly of themselves and do not pull off everything they think they can. When the man in the story goes out in the wilderness by himself and he almost dies it shows he is not as smart as once thought. When he fell in the ice and almost froze, if he would have taken someone with him that situation could have been avoided. The man did not listen to the old man from silver creek and he should have. Overall people need to think out what they are doing better.
ReplyDeleteThe story "To Build A Fire" by Jack London teaches us about the fault in humanity's by showing us how a bond cant be broken between a man and his dog. On page 9, the man plans on killing the dog to keep his hands warm, but he ends up not being able to physically or emotionally, the narrator says "..his arms flashed out at the dog, and he experienced genuine surprise when he discovered that his hands could not clutch.. he realized that he could not kill the dog. There was no way to do it.." the man realizes he has an emotionally attachment to this dog and as much as he needs to kill the dog for his survival, he cant because he loves it.
ReplyDeleteIn "To Build a Fire by Jack London teaches how faults in humanities such as when the guy makes a fire under a tree and is pulling the tree branches of and all of the snow falls on the fire and burns it out on page 6. Also, when the man falls into the creek and he has too build a fire which will delay him for and hour on getting to the camp. Though the dog fell in earlier and was biting the ice off of its fur.
ReplyDeleteThe short story "To Build a Fire" by Jack London shows the faults of humanity by describing the situation of one man who could have saved himself but made stupid decisions that led to his demise. Some examples of his mistakes include when he fell in the hidden pools he didn't start a fire immediately like he should have, he only left with one meal, he left alone, he took his mittens off too long, he started a fire under a tree, and many more mistakes he made pretty much led to his own death. If he would've have followed the advice of the old-timer at sulphur creek he would of had a better chance to live but he thought he was tough enough to survive alone even though he obviously couldn't.
ReplyDeleteWhen he says "You were right old hoss, you were right." what he was trying to say is that the old-timer that gave him the advice he refused to follow was actually correct and that if he would've followed his advice there would've been a possibility he would've survived.
DeleteThe story "To Build a Fire" by: Jack London teaches us that humans are brave but stupid. In the text the man tries to "bury his hands into the dog's corpse to keep warm" but he couldn't because his hands were numb. This is a brave idea but it was stupid of him not to keep warm enough to build a fire or kill the dog. He also dies because he didn't listen to instinct he reasoned.
ReplyDeleteThe story "To Build A Fire" by Jack London shows the faults of humanity by showing how this man doesn't listen to advice from and old man from Sulfur creek he thought the old man was womanish and that he would be fine without listening to the old man. Examples of this is when he ate his food with his gloves off and he builds a fire underneath a tree covered with snow. In the end he wish he listened to the old man so he had a better chance to survive.
ReplyDeleteThe story "To Build a Fire" by Jack London shows the faults of humanity by showing how the dog has instincts to do whats right and to keep safe when it's cold or something bad happens. The author shows this in the human because he didn't make fire, he got to cold, he didn't come prepared, everything that the human did was wrong and eventually he died. That's how the author portrayed the faults of a human.
ReplyDeleteIn the story "To Build a Fire" by Jack London teaches you that sometimes, when humans are in danger we don't think. like when he tries to put his hands in the dogs corpse to keep warm. It is a very dangerous and stupid task because the dog could have deadly germs that could make him die a slow painful death and his hands were numb so he wouldn't be able to cut open the dog.
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