In(Human)e Survival

My favorite story we have read so far is To Build a Fire by Jack London. The story shows human ignorance at his best. The man made the decision to go off on his own even after he was told by a wiser man who had traveled the trail before not to go. He thought he was indestructible and it was proven that mother nature was able to take him down. I feel that the man in this story represents a lot of people in this world. Also in the story when the man decided he was going to attempt to kill his dog for survival which was his only reasonable choice to beat death. But he had made this decision too late he was already too frozen because he was too stubborn to make multiple stops and build a fire to thaw out. It angered me when he was going to kill the dog because I find that very inhumane but it was a life and death choice. I found the story itself to be a very interesting one.

Submitted by Stephanie Corbett