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Setting Essay
“To Build A Fire”, by Jack London weather took form of a detrimental character who played the main role in the setting. The setting in itself was a cold, dark, and lifeless place in which took form of a character in itself in the story.
The setting is being held in the deepest most cold areas of Canada. The frosty weather that is being held throughout the novel which plays a character because of how it combats with man. Therefore bringing man vs. nature. Man wants to fight the cold and believe that it can conquer it however the weather in itself will not allow him to. The place to which he has adventured to has won over his arrogant mind and put him at a life threatening situation. An example that states that the weather has taken character form in the setting is spoken in the text. “As he turned to go on, he spat speculatively. There was a sharp, explosive crackle that startled him. He spat again. And again, in the air, before it could fall to the snow, the spittle crackled. He knew that at fifty below spittle crackled on the snow, but this spittle had cracked in the air.” Here it talks about the coldness of the weather showing its true force over man. The spittle did not even reach the ground because the weather was below average temperature for a human to be out in, and the man continued his trail and it ultimately led him to his fate.
The weather in the story took life form in the setting because it is where everything had been taken place and where this ultimate battle between man and nature had been held. The man believed that he could win over this traitorous weather and continue his trip but because the weather took this form to which characterized it in order to show how cruel it really was. In the story the setting is all surrounded by cold and wood like even forest like areas. The story is automatically showing the readers that woods always led’s to trouble. The man being alone and with only a dog as companion showed the readers that he was fighting nature through the stubborn man personality, the one where man thinks he can conquer anything and anyone. The weather is the man’s antagonist in the story, and to show the readers this the narrator depicts the weather in a lifeless way. The weather taking away life and giving life. Taking away life because its coldness will kill and the giving of life because snow itself can be considered life giving and beautiful. Ultimately the weather and setting were intertwined into one another. The setting was in a cold and frozen time and it made the weather into this person whom the man was fighting off the whole time. However, man cannot fight off something that is more powerful than him put together and the cold at the beginning foreshadowed his downfall. The man and nature have fought in their ultimate battle and nature has won and left the man to die, like it had intended.