Jack London's To Build A Fire

I personally believe that London was very good at writing about treacherous journeys, especially in cold and depressing climates. Did you know that over 100,000 gold prospectors left their home and moved to the Yukon territory or Alaska? All of those people moved for the famous Klondike Gold Rush. Many of those people lost their lives during their dangerous journey.
London’s famous short story “The Love of Life” depicts a journey looking for gold with 2 men who are looking for it. One of the men remains unnamed throughout the story and is injured and can only limp. Bill ignores his cries for help in effort to save himself. Unfortunately for Bill he gets eaten by wolves. Bill held on to his gold even while he was eaten. The unnamed man survives
He shows this in many of his works. London usually makes all of the situations in his works very “to the point” and clear. He also uses depressing and dark tones. Like in his work “The Love of Life” the unnamed man states, “There were no trees, no shrubs, no grasses,-naught but a tremendous and terrible desolation that sent fear swiftly dawning into his eyes.” This makes the reader really endower the situation the men are dealing with. Also in “To Build a Fire” London adds, “It certainly was cold, he concluded, as he rubbed his numb nose and cheekbones.” This makes the reader really feel what the man is going through and realise the harshness of nature. From what I and many other readers have discovered is how London always tries to grab the reader and make them really feel how the character is reacting. London is also known for his quite dismal tone. For example: In “Love of Life” a very repetitious word is “desolation” and in “To Build a Fire” “dismal” is used often as well to have the reader comprehend exactly what is taking place and what the situation is like. Without tone these stories would be rather bland and would be more difficult to get the full feeling of what he is trying to
The characters in both stories face some of the same issues as the others. London describes the weather to be pretty much identical. London uses many words in both stories to describe the climate such as “gloomy” and “dark”. London focuses on the weather and climate and that can really impact his stories.
Naturalism is by far the biggest movement London focuses on. In “The Love of Life” and “To Build a Fire” the characters are in the hands of nature. In “The Love of Life” Bill is slowed down and eventually eaten by wolves. In “To Build a Fire” the bitter cold freezes the man’s face and extremities making them numb causing the man to be unable to start a new fire after his original one was put out by snow. There is nothing these men could have done to save themselves from the uncontrollable forces of