In To Build a Fire, a short story by Jack London, the main character is trying to survive a trek on foot in bitterly cold weather. Along the way, character flaws lead to mistakes, which ultimately cause the man’s death. The personal flaw that contributed most to the man’s death was his ignorance. To begin his journey, the man starts off by blowing off the advice of a veteran hiker. His most important advice was to never travel alone when the temperature was under fifty below. At the beginning of the story, it was fifty below but soon it started to drop rapidly, and it was only the man and his dog. As the story progresses, the man’s ignorance begins to show. One of these instances was when he realized that his uncovered face was starting to
