What if you whole life or the live of another depended on a single fire? Your hands and feet are becoming numb by the minute. As you reach for the last match, it falls helplessly to the ground. You drop to the ground in a pile and you start to shiver. You think this is it I'm done for lives over. There is nothing left to save myself. "To Build a Fire" by Jack London is a story with nature showing the harsh weather of the Klondike.
First off let’s talk about the symbolism. One of the major symbols of this story is fire. In some cases fire means death. In this case it means life. Because that is how he has to save his life. Also a major symbol is the old man from sulfur creek. The old man represents wisdom because he has lived longer than the other man who apparently didn't understand that it was cold.
Furthermore that made of this tale is tragedy. In a tragically mode of the world starts in conflict with the world or something else. Which was when he was out in the cold when the conflict occurs which he could not start the fir. Finally at the end of tragedy ends with loss of a person who decided not to listen to the other wise men who were trying to help him not cause a conflict for himself or for others around him. If he could just have listened nothing would have probably have happened to him in the first place.
Finally, trying to hurt another's life in order to save yours or someone hurting yours to save theirs is the worst thing that you or someone could do. It's not very intelligent and also not very kind to do. It would remind you every time and kind of haunt you because you would know that you had done something wrong and it would have been better if you would have not done that. You probably would also think that you should have thought it over before you had done something that would hurt you for probably the rest of your life. It would be the worst feeling anyone could most likely have. In the story the man tried to kill the dog to use its warmth, and he didn't end up killing the dog.
In the story there was a battle between man vs. nature. Nature ended up wining because of its harsh conditions it made it harder for the man to get around the camp where the wise man told him not to go in the first place. Because of that the man had to serve his consequences.
