In the story “To Build a Fire,” the man doesn’t listen to anyone; he just does his own thing. The man travels in weather below 50 degrees, doesn’t cook any food, doesn’t go back to the camp, and then freezes to death. A theme from the story is to listen to those more experienced than you. One way the theme is developed is how the man doesn’t listen to the old-timer of Sulpher Creek when he said not to travel in weather under 50 degrees, because the man didn’t listen and decided to do his own way, the man died of ignorance. A quote that supports my reasoning is, “The old-timer on Sulpher Creek was right, he thought in the moment of controlled despair that ensures: after fifty below, a man should travel with a partner. Another way
