Essays on To Build a Fire

The intelligence of women is a controversial matter which has been debated for centuries. Although recent feminist movements have allowed for more equality between men and women, traits such as “emotional” and “worrisome” are perceived in a manner that allow women to be viewed as…

In Jack London’s To Build a Fire, complex yet crucial literary tactics are used to portray a lesson of nature that would otherwise be left untold. Symbolism and point of view play a pivotal role in the development of the story’s concealed meanings. The author…

In Jack London’s, “To Build a Fire,” the presumptuous qualities of human nature are highlighted, in the story of a man who attempts to take on the hypothermic Yukon in Alaska. The main character allows his pride to take over his mental process, which distorts…