Dog is known as man’s best friend. However, in “To Build a Fire,” this was not the case; dog was not man’s best friend. London states that, “The one was the slave of the other,”(70). This tells us that they were basically simply there to benefit from one another. The dog wasn’t with the man to keep him company, but instead to find warmth. The man used the dog to test the firminity of the ice in hopes of keeping himself dry. “The dog had learned about fire, and it wanted fire. Otherwise, it would dig itself into the snow and find shelter from the cold air,”(London 66) and “Once, sensing danger, he made the dog go ahead,”(London 68) show that both the dog and the man wanted something from the other one.
If the dog and the man had a close bond,
If the dog and the man had a close bond,