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“To build a fire” summary The realistic fictional short story “To build a fire” by Jack London chronicles the adventure of a man in the klondike hiking to a camp to meet his companions. It is through this adventure that london communicates the theme is take advice from the older people. He went out to despite advice and didn’t listen to the old timer, he fell threw the ice and had to stop and take his shoes off and built a fire but the fire goes out from snow falling off tree branches after pulling branches off to built the fire up. Then he failed to make another fire because his hands were frozen shut. So than he tried to kill the dog for warmth to warm his body up. But fails again and then he dies of hypothemia. He got over smarted by
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