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Analysis Of The Awakening, By Oscar Wilde
The man’s attitude at the beginning of this story, was over-confident. “He was a newcomer in the land, a chechaquo, and this was his first winter,” but all he did was, challenge the nature, thinking that he could handle it. He didn’t care about all the warnings that the nature did, he was too confident about himself. The nature started to torture him physically, with cold. It was his first time in the cold, but he never thought it was going to be like that. Now he is starting to appreciate the old-timer’s advice. The climate was too cold, the temperature was fifty degrees below zero, and he had never been in cold before, it was dangerous for him. The old timer warned him that no man could travel alone in the Klondike, it was a crazy idea, and

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