Setting In Jack London's To Build A Fire
Every story has a setting, whether it be in the Klondike like in ‘To Build a Fire’ or it can even be on the dark, depressing, cold that is space. A setting can set up a story by being both the place, time, and even the main character. The setting can always and will always either be an enemy or a friend to the protagonist, that is if the setting is not the protagonist. In Jack London’s ‘To Build a Fire’ the setting, in the Klondike, is the protagonist and ends up even killing the main character because he did not heed an old man’s warning. The setting of the short story, ‘To Build a Fire’ creates a plethora of problems that the main character who is so ignorantly and willingly put his life in the pot of the poker table, challenging Nature at its own heartless game. The main character soon learns that the game is rigged and the rules are bent in Nature’s favor. The man misjudged how
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You can see in many places where the setting has shoved the man closer and closer to his truly chilling fate. The setting hardly affects the man’s traveling partner because. Pepper, the dog, was built for that type of setting, but even it knew that traveling in that temperature was a dangerous and foolish thing to do, as put by London. The stories with the most evidence of the setting affecting characters are stories in which the setting is the antagonist. That includes ‘To Build a Fire’ because the main antagonist is the weather. Never once in a story I have ever seen has the setting played no part in the plot. . But there is an instance in which a character is mostly unaffected by the setting, which would the dog in the story ‘To Build a Fire’. The setting is much like ‘If, then, and else’ statements in code. If the setting is here, then this could happen, if else then this will
You can see in many places where the setting has shoved the man closer and closer to his truly chilling fate. The setting hardly affects the man’s traveling partner because. Pepper, the dog, was built for that type of setting, but even it knew that traveling in that temperature was a dangerous and foolish thing to do, as put by London. The stories with the most evidence of the setting affecting characters are stories in which the setting is the antagonist. That includes ‘To Build a Fire’ because the main antagonist is the weather. Never once in a story I have ever seen has the setting played no part in the plot. . But there is an instance in which a character is mostly unaffected by the setting, which would the dog in the story ‘To Build a Fire’. The setting is much like ‘If, then, and else’ statements in code. If the setting is here, then this could happen, if else then this will