The Theme Of To Build A Fire

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One theme from "To build a fire" is listen to people who are more wiser.This can be helpful if you fall in a hole your teammate can build you a fire. One way this theme is developed is the anciesters dont think it's safe to travel alone.The reason they believe that is if you die you can get help.Unlike the man he and the dog traveled together.The dog was really cold,but instead of the man building a fire he kept on walking.Eventually,it got really cold and the man saw a hole.He wantd the dog to walk first so if the dog fell it would have been okay. But the dogs reactions in the paragraph 13 was "The dog did not want to go ." The next response you should do is trust your dogs instincts.If the man had trust the dog the they would

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