The Impact Of The Setting In Jack London's To Build A Fire

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Have you ever thought of being lost in the coldest of weather and have nothing but your own pet. The setting in "To build a fire" has an impact on several parts of the story. Jack London, the author of this book, has made an outstanding book of a man and his pet. These characters have to survive mother nature as she puts them up at the challenge that could lead them to their demise. The setting in the story is very suspenseful and it has a lot of turns for the worst.  One of the ways that the setting has an impact involves the major characters. The man and his dog pepper was put to the ultimate test as man and animal come together to survive but as the story unravels, suspense and desperation comes into play. The characters is in a struggle to live. Mother nature is helping the reader know whats going to happen next to the characters. The man is trying his best and using his instincts to survive the very cold weather but later on dies from being too cold. His dog pepper goes on to the other settlement where he is safe and the end of the story. …show more content…

The plot involved the weather changing the setting and made the characters have to change. For example, since the weather was so cold and it was so much snow. As the man tried to make a fire, but the weather caused the fire to get put out and do to that, the man was even closer to death.(7) Since the temperature dropped, it made the man scared and desperate. After many failed attempts at making a fire to keep him warm, he realizes that he was wrong.(9) He doubted the old timer of Sulphur Creek who told him never to go alone in such a bad weather and now he had to pay the price.(9) The story had to changed a lot because of how it pushed the man over his limits and the cost of that was his own life. This made a big impact on the story

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