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will become aware that the scenery is going straight forward overcast and gray. The protagonist has problem traveling, of his stubbornness, and the behavior of making mistakes that is the reason why he cannot complete his accomplishment. First of all, the man is also known as a newcomer or a chechaquo. He was traveling in Yukon in an extremely cold weather which with fifty-degrees below zero. The man's attitude is a little overconfident. Before the trip, an old-timer advised him that the journey was too cold and dangerous, but the man did not pick up ears to it. The man trusts in his instinct, but he never imagined or prepared a plan to survive in that tremendous cold. However, he treats his journey as a conflict to nature. On the other hand, the man was not lonely at all. There was a dog that follows the man, a big native husky that hope's him to settle down and stay by the fire, but,“ there was no keen intimacy between the dog and the man.”(London, 1908, p.87). Once the weather increase on to seventy-degrees below zero. The man´s fingers and toes were frozen, and he knew that he had to warm himself. In order to build the fire, “To build the fire he had been forced to remove his mittens, and the fingers had quickly gone numbs.”(London, 1908, p.88) …show more content…
Accidentally, the man wets his feet in the frozen water by looking for the twigs to build the fire. In fact, once the body gets wet in that kind of temperature would cause frostbite in a few minutes. The man knew that he could not survive with his feet wet. He built his second fire under a spruce tree which is an inauspicious decision. The man needed more twigs to build the fire, but he was terribly cold. The man takes the twigs off of the spruce tree, and each time accidentally shakes the tree, so the snow falls from a nearby branch and extinguished the

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