When I read Jack London's To Build A Fire I knew I would like the story from the first paragraph to the last sentence because it has to do with something I personally find interesting which is Survival. I watch Bear Grylls Man vs Wild and some other survival shows and have learned to respect the elements because unlike people the elements don't care whether you live or die and if you can avoid situations where you could be stranded and possibly die. For example don't jump out of a perfectly good plane only to parachute to the ground because there is always that off chance the parachute won't open. In the story To Build A Fire the title is perfect for the story I couldn't think of a better name for it, the man who is trying to make it to the mining camp fails to build a fire which causes him to die. I would recommend this story to anyone who wants to read about adventure, life, death, irony, this story has a lot of good qualities to it and is strongly written it is truly one of the best short stories I have ever read and should serve as a professional example for anyone studying English. I have read White Fang and Call of the Wild both written by Jack London he seemed to go through a period of writing about adventure I think partially because he was born in California in 1876 which wasn't long after the California Gold Rush of 1848. Even today anything having to do with adventure and money on television does well Gold Rush on Discovery channel which is about Americans who are out of work traveling to Alaska to dig for gold and hopefully strike it rich and Storage Wars which is about people who buy storage units at auction an only hope there are riches to be found within the storage unit.
Submitted by Robert Fisk
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