“There was no Promise of sun, although there was not a cloud in the sky.” (London) Jack London’s short story starts out cold, bleak and rather miserable. The story is about an unnamed man traveling the Yukon with a native wolf-dog. They are set to get to an old mining camp off Henderson Creek to meet up with the boys a little after dark. Unfortunately, due to the man’s ego by not following the old man’s advice and his lack of common sense, he ends up freezing to death on the trail thus, never making it to the camp. It is truly, a remarkable story full of suspense, irony, and foreshadowing. It teaches us about how predictably unpredictable she can be. Man versus nature or naturalism is seen throughout the story.
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I believe he felt as though he was ready enough to take on an adventure like this by himself. Though mother nature didn’t display her full fury she still proved to him just how dangerous she can be without seeming to be temperamental. He would have survived if he would have been smarter about his journey, but some people out there are so headstrong and will jump into anything without much thought about the possible outcomes and dangers that when they realize the peril, it’s too late. “Fifty degrees below zero meant 80 degrees of frost. Such facts told him that it was cold and uncomfortable, and that was all. It did not lead him to consider his weakness as a creature affected by temperature. Nor did he think about man’s general weakness, able to only live within narrow limits of heat and cold” (London). Though the man was obviously unaware of the potential outcomes, the wolf dog was the complete opposite. He went with his instincts and knew what the dangers could be. The dog did not know anything about the temperatures. The animal was worried by the great cold. It knew that this was no time for traveling” (London). If only the man would have listened to his own instincts about the cold environment instead of rationalizing it and thinking he would be just
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I believe he felt as though he was ready enough to take on an adventure like this by himself. Though mother nature didn’t display her full fury she still proved to him just how dangerous she can be without seeming to be temperamental. He would have survived if he would have been smarter about his journey, but some people out there are so headstrong and will jump into anything without much thought about the possible outcomes and dangers that when they realize the peril, it’s too late. “Fifty degrees below zero meant 80 degrees of frost. Such facts told him that it was cold and uncomfortable, and that was all. It did not lead him to consider his weakness as a creature affected by temperature. Nor did he think about man’s general weakness, able to only live within narrow limits of heat and cold” (London). Though the man was obviously unaware of the potential outcomes, the wolf dog was the complete opposite. He went with his instincts and knew what the dangers could be. The dog did not know anything about the temperatures. The animal was worried by the great cold. It knew that this was no time for traveling” (London). If only the man would have listened to his own instincts about the cold environment instead of rationalizing it and thinking he would be just