Question

Has anyone read "To Build a Fire"?

Answer 1

I did, what about it?

Answer 2

Think about the protagonist of you novel or short story. List two actions the protagonist takes that increase the conflict. Describe the results of each action.

Protagonist’s Action #1

Result of Protagonist’s Action #1

Protagonist’s Action #2

Result of Protagonist’s Action #2

Think about the antagonist of you novel or short story. List two actions the antagonist takes that increase the conflict. Describe the results of each action.

Antagonist’s Action #1

Result of Antagonist’s Action #1

Antagonist’s Action #2

Result of Antagonist’s Action #2

Climax
Think about the climax of your story. Describe the choice the protagonist makes to change the course of the conflict.

Falling Action
Think about the falling action of your story. Describe one event of falling action that directly follows your protagonist’s choice.

Answer 3

I have read it. :)

Answer 4

Also, a question like this belongs in the English or Literature Section, not the History Section. :)

Answer 5

Wait a sec, I'll go reread it quickly.

Answer 6

In To build a fire, the man was warned that he shouldn't go out in the woods in such a cold weather. Yet he ignored that warning and went out in the woods to meet his son (I think it was his son). He did this because he believed that he could make it. But honestly he, as a newcomer to Alaska, should have listened to the old man’s advice.
The result of his action lead him to death (froze to death)

Answer 7

For the second one, he fell into a creek. This froze him up faster than he should of.

Answer 8

ok, keep going so you will earn a fan

Answer 9

@Kamizamurai

Answer 10

Sorry, it's been a long time since I read this... What's your thoughts on this ? I can help correcting you.

Answer 11

here is the story

Answer 12

https://lti.flvsgl.com/content/dmuclr36956p127l4kj0lfmgk4/educator_mjlangartsII_v14_gs/module05/pop/05_reading_guide_popc.htm

Answer 13

@Kamizamurai

Answer 14

I said I read it, didn't I ? I just wanted your opinion. As you can see I only gave one example each for the past 2 questions and they said they wanted two examples. Can you give me your opinion as well? It's not that hard, I'm here to help you :)

Answer 15

The protagonist is tom and Andy because the new family moving in is from their perspective. Yes there is a narrator but it is focused on how Andy and Tom treat the Duvitches with respect and help them gain more respect from the town.
The antagonist would be the town because they didn't take time to get to know the new family, they judged them right off the bat. Also another example of a antagonist is when Tom and Andy poisoned the duvitches fish. It made them bad people. (They are both the pro and antagonist).
Just adding: The main conflict is that the town doesn't see the potential in the family.

Answer 16

oh wait that's something else

Answer 17

Is there another story that I have to know?

Answer 18

no, that was something else i got messed up

Answer 19

I will give you a quick summary.

Answer 20

what scene do you think is the climax?

Answer 21

"To Build a Fire" is the title of two short stories by American author Jack London published in 1902 and 1908. The 1908 story has become an often anthologized classic; the 1902 story describes a similar situation but has a different, less famous plot. The 1908 "To Build a Fire" is an oft-cited example of the naturalist movement that portrays the conflict of man vs. nature. It also reflects what London learned in the Yukon Territory.

Answer 22

At 9:00 a.m. on an extremely cold winter's day, an unnamed man leaves the Yukon Trail, expecting to reach his associates (referred to as "the boys") by six o'clock at a claim "on the left fork of Henderson Creek." "The man," as he is called throughout the story, is accompanied only by a dog, "a big native husky, the proper wolf dog," who "knew that it was no time for traveling." But the cold does not deter the man, a relative newcomer to the Yukon. He proceeds along a creek trail, taking care to avoid hidden springs. The weather is so cold that the saliva from the tobacco he is chewing freezes his mouth shut, and he has to build a fire to thaw out sufficiently to eat lunch. Shortly thereafter, he realized he cannot see and breaks through an "ice skin" and soaks his feet and legs "halfway to the knees."

More angry than frightened by the accident, the man builds a fire to dry his clothes. With great difficulty (for he is aware of sensation rapidly ebbing from his freezing members) he starts a fire underneath a tree, but disaster strikes when snow from its loaded boughs extinguishes the fire. For the first time the man is frightened: "It was as though he had just heard his own sentence of death." He tries to start a new fire, but cannot light a match with his frozen, numbed fingers. He tries to hold a match with his teeth, but is choked by the fumes from the flame. In desperation he holds his matches with the heels of his hands and lights them all, burning his flesh as he gets a fire going once again. But his freezing limbs are losing their coordination, and while trying to nourish the flame he "disrupt[s] the nucleus of the little fire" and it goes out. He thinks of killing his dog to be able to warm his hands in its carcass, but with his numb hands he has lost the ability to hold his knife.

In a last attempt to keep himself warm, he runs toward his destination, hoping that his exertion can warm his body enough to keep him alive long enough to reach "the boys." But he can no longer feel his feet, and when he stumbles and falls, he finds he needs to rest before he can get up. Feeling panic rise within him at the thought "that the frozen portions of his body must be extending," he is able to get up and run on, but he slows to a walk, runs again, then falls. A "last panic" enables him to get up one more time and run "no more than a hundred feet," but he "stagger(s) and pitch(es) headlong." Calmer now, he addresses himself to the task of "meeting death with dignity." Before he dies from hypothermia, he has a vision of himself among "the boys" who will find his body the next day: "He did not belong with himself any more, for even then he was out of himself, standing with the boys and looking at himself in the snow." He falls into "the most comfortable and satisfying sleep he has ever known." This fits some descriptions of a Near-death experience.

His dog, not understanding why "the fire provider" is sitting in the snow instead of making a fire to warm them, comes closer and catches "the scent of death." A little later the dog turns and trots "up the trail in the direction of the camp it knew, where there were other food-providers and fire-providers."

Answer 23

Hmm okay. Anyway the climax is when the man realized that there's no hope in making another fire, so he tries to kill the the dog to warm himself up. Which he also failed in.

Answer 24

You can stop copy and pasting. It's not helping anything... :(

Answer 25

Falling action:
After he failed in killing the dog he gave up, or you can say he accepted the truth that he can't survive either way. In his last moment he thought of the old man who warned him.

The dog after this waited, but after realizing the man was no more, he headed to the next camp.

Answer 26

And I'm done :)

Answer 27

You should rethink question 1 and 2.

Answer 28

Btw it wasn't his son that he went to meet.