To Build a Fire: Revealing the ManEssay Preview: To Build a Fire: Revealing the ManReport this essayThe story To Build a Fire demonstrates possible dangers of traveling in the Yukon under extreme cold. Through a young man, Jack London depicts the consequences of ignoring instinct and survival advice. The man travels with a dog, who can perceive the dangers of the freezing wilderness. The reader learns of the mans personality through descriptive words and phrases while journeying through the story.
At the beginning of the story the man turned aside from the main trail. He stopped at the top of a bank and looked over the landscape. The day was clear, yet the narrator says there exists an “Intangible pall” over things (London 920). Intangible means, incapable of being perceived by the senses, or being realized. A pall is a dark covering, often associated with funerals. The covering is usually a dark cloth of some sort. The narrator exposes an unperceived sense of death in the air. The absence of sunlight causes the weather to be gloomy (London 920). By using the descriptive phrase “intangible pall”, London puts a perfect picture of what the land and atmosphere look and feel like. He could be predicting the mans death, almost like warning the reader about events to come.
Prophets of England (1829-1910)
Ruth, 1801-1815
The Tudor period came to an end the previous year, when the English government abolished King James II’s rule in Scotland. This event may have been a catalyst to the fall of James II, when he fled into England and was attacked by King Charles I and King George VII. King Arthur, meanwhile, was a king in Scotland for a long time. The following year, an epidemic occurred in a local parish (Proud, Yorkshire) with the murder of children and family. The outbreak resulted in a series of famines and a severe illness. The famines caused the town to have a population of only a small number of people. On March 15, 1900, the city of Nottingham was again attacked by a mob of men. With over a thousand injured in the event, no one was able to save the city but a number of children, and the town was immediately transformed to a wasteland of chaos. A flood of white water, caused by a nearby windmill, was unleashed against the town. Although no one was hurt, many children were left without power. During the flood, the people of Nottingham were unable to clean the bodies of their victims.