Great Fire of London

wars or through changes in day-to-day life. Change like this can affect a lot of lifestyles and how circumstances are viewed throughout the world. These changes affected many viewpoints, including writers. This is the case in Jack London's “To Build a Fire” and Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Nature” and “Self-Reliance”. London's naturalist views and Emerson's transcendentalist views differ in beliefs about nature. This reflects how the Civil War and Darwinism affect the way that nature is viewed. Ralph…

ruthlessly preys upon humanity. People are rendered helpless by cruel natural disasters, violent weather, and extreme temperature. Mankind is arguably the true victim of cruel nature. Thus, nature is the villain of Jack London's short story "To Build a Fire" which follows a man's trek through the frigid Yukon in pursuit of lumber. The man's original mission for wood is instantly transformed into an uphill battle…

but it never is. There are certain situations and forces beyond our control, showing us nature is powerful and cannot be defeated. As much as one may like to believe it, nature runs its own course and has no remorse. Jack London’s “To Build a Fire” is a great example of a man’s battle against nature, illustrating one is controlled by the environment. Naturalism may seem very much similar to realism…

Do you just love dogs? What I’m implying is, only cold-hearted monsters don’t love dogs. If you aren’t a cold-hearted monster, then I recommend you read the novel The Call of the Wild by Jack London. The Call of the Wild is about a proud, overweening dog named Buck. The setting of the story appeared in 1897 during the Klondike Gold Rush, when people from all places were heading to the Northland in hopes of striking it rich. Unfortunately for Buck, he classified as the variety of dog people were…

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forelegs” (London,27)When Buck learned to bite the ice between his toes or break the ice to get water. He learned from the huskies and his primitive…

Personality is usually revealed by a person’s thoughts and actions. In the stories Call of the Wild and “To Build a Fire,” both by Jack London, and Brian’s Winter by Gary Paulsen, the main characters’ personalities are revealed by their thoughts and actions. The personalities of the main characters in each of these stories are quite similar because they think and act similarly. In Brian’s Winter, Brian believes that he and the bears have an understanding to leave each other alone, although the…

The fire service is more than that “cool place, with the big red truck that makes loud noises and spits water out” The fire service plays a big role in our society to this day. Without the fire service who would put out the fire that you made when you tried to make microwave noodles and forgot to put the water in. The fire service dates to the Rome some 2,000 years ago. They had people roam around the city and sound the alarm if a fire were ever to occur. These people that were selected were…

Jack London is a legendary writer of adventure tales. White Fang, The Call of the Wild, and To Build a Fire are a few of his many published stories. Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild follows the story of the young Chris McCandless as he experiences the wild places of North America. Chris leaves his family, changes his name to Alexander Supertramp, and lives a nomadic life until his untimely end in Alaska. London’s To Build a Fire tells of an inexperienced man who ventures into the Yukon accompanied…

To Build a Fire: An Indifferent Struggle During the 19th century, Realism and Naturalism came about as literary movements in response to Romanticism. Realism, aimed to present works of literature by through the precise use of factual details of life, by representing “events and social conditions as they actually are, without idealization” (Scheidenhelm). While the latter movement illustrated its stories in terms of “scientific principles of objectivity and detachment to its study of human…