In the versions of, “To Build a Fire” by Jack London, the text is a more realistic representation of the man’s struggle for survival. When the man is drowsing off into a death of freezing, the narrator describes what the man is feeling in that moment. “Then the man drowsed off into what seemed to him the most comfortable and satisfying sleep he had ever known” (London, page 12). In the text the reader can better understand this moment of death then in the film because in the story he does die and in the film it is only an actor portraying his death. When the reader gets to paint a picture of death and struggle on their own it gives them the ability to see real death in their mind, not a fake scene of death that is done by a living actor. The
