The story, "To Build A Fire," by Jack London, he gives us the ultimate support that humans are fragile creature with physical limits. I really enjoyed how he started the story, about the man and his dog stuck in the Yukon Winter, under a false pretense that the temperature is far warmer than what it actually is.
On several occasions Jack london uses the man's dog to show just how dangerous it really was for human survival. At one point, the dog seems as if he does not want to continue on the journey and another the man becomes jealous of the dog's heat keeping fur.
I also enjoyed how ironic the story was. At one point the man was told not to travel alone and that it was dangerous. Later on, however, he believes that this was untrue until snow falls on him leaving him drenched in the cold. Finally when the man dies, the dog goes on because of his natural instinct to find warmth. The dog knew where the village the man was looking for was and it was the utmost irony in the fact that, had he stayed with dog and relied more on his instinct he could have survived.
Submitted by John Baratta
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