They both tried making others participate in things they didn’t want to be a part of. What we could take from both stories is both mid-age men were stubborn in their ways and put the ones that loved them in danger. The old men were native’s and had been doing that journey since they were young. He ignores the old men’s advice, thinking it was advice of survival for old men. The man thought he knew better because he was younger and stronger than the old men. “He was a new-comer to the land, a chechaquo, and this was his first winter.” And ironically, his last. The old men that gave the advice could be seen as a voice of reason, telling the “newcomer” not to travel below sixty degrees weather. The conflict in “To Build a Fire” is man versus nature because the protagonist has to battle the harsh conditions of the Yukon in a fight for survival. If he gets loose don’t you know what he is going to do? He will go up yonder.” Sarty breaks loose, escapes through all of his family and goes down yonder directly to Major de Spain’s house to notify him about his barn. Sarty’s family turns on him when they realize he had a conscious and try tieing him to a bedpost. Sarty tries resisting the evil deed of his father but was only able to resist so much. Even though Sarty risks being struck by his father again, he tries convincing him not to burn down Major de Spain’s barn. Sarty’s perspective of his sense of morality and decency would present a more logical conflict in this story. In “Barn Burning ”, Sarty is seen as a risk by his family for contemplating going against his father’s decision. Any man who was a man could travel alone.” However, there are certain discoveries the protagonist has that temporarily improve his situation but, eventually help him to die with dignity and peace of mind. All a man had to do was to keep his head, and he was all right. Those old-timers were rather womanish, some of them, he thought. Well, here he was he had had the accident he was alone and he had saved himself. The old-timer had been very serious in laying down the law that no man must travel alone in the Klondike after fifty below. “He remembered the advice of the old-timer on Sulphur Creek, and smiled. The conversation the old men had with the newcomer before he sets off on his journey. For that reason, it’s difficult to say an epiphany the man has is “life-changing.” The greatest epiphany the man has is that, when temperatures are seventy-five degrees below zero, fire is essential for survival. Jack London’s short story “To Build a Fire” ends in death. Harris and Major De Spain, and Sarty’s impression about his father’s behavior. Sarty was brought about by Abner’s conflicts with Mr. Sarty’s grand epiphany came to him as he ran to get a can of oil from his father’s barn. The boy realizes his father was wrong for “burning” Major de Spain. Epiphanyįor Sarty, an epiphany ends a lifelong inner battle between family loyalty and personal morality. “He did not belong with himself anymore, for even then he was out of himself, standing with the boys and looking back at himself in the snow.” The irony is his stubbornness lead him to realize he was out of time and was unable to use his only lifeline before his fate. “Something was the matter, and its suspicious nature sensed danger.” Pepper cautiously approaches the man as he calls him over. His stubbornness didn’t allow him to take any other factors into consideration such as would he be able to light the matches with his frozen fingers, not to light the fire under a tree covered with snow otherwise the snow would eventually melt and turn the fire off, as well as the comfort of his helpless wolf-dog. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in the significance.” He viewed the old men as weak and disregards their advice about, not traveling alone after fifty below. “The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He deceives himself by thinking he knew better than the advice given by the old men. His mistake was fire was his only resource for survival. The fire also means the difference between life and death. In “To Build a Fire”, the fire symbolizes life. But, this time it leads to his fate and possibly the fate of other family members. As expected, Abner intends to get even for the hassle and threat of being charged.
Abner is eventually taken to court and charged a fifth of the value for the rug.
He dirties their hundred-dollar white rug with horse dung he picks up with his bum foot on the way to the main house. A photo of the Snopes Family preparing to leave the country and find their twelfth home in ten years.īefore settling into their new home, Abner gets into bad terms immediately with the wife of Major de Spain.
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