To Build a Fire “To build a fire”, by Jack London illustrates naturalistic composition. Naturalism defines “a philosophical viewpoint according to which everything arises from natural properties and causes, and supernatural or spiritual explanations are excluded or discounted” (Dictionary.com) which in other words bases its theory on scientific laws. The narrator illustrates how the man is no match for nature itself and how heartless nature can be: Man versus Nature and Man versus Self. London illustrates the significance of the severe weather and gave us a clear picture of the seventy-five degrees below zero weather. “He spat again. And again, in the air, before it could fall to the snow, the spittle crackled. He knew that at fifty below
