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To Build a Fire By John London - Coggle Diagram
To Build a Fire By John London
Setting
Takes place in the main Yukon, along the river in Canada.
"The Yukon lay a mile wide and hidden under three feet of ice. On top of this ice were as many feet of snow. It was all pure white. North and south, as far as his eye could see, it was unbroken white."
In Winter
Plot
Exposition
The man and the wolf dog begin to walk forward to the camp at Henderson Creek. The man only focus on time he will be arrive the camp. He doesn't look at the danger in winter. The wolf dog is aware of the danger in winter.
Rising Action
The man fall in pools of water under the snow, then he wet his feet. He must build a fire to dry his feet. However, he builds a fire under the tree where snow is dropping. He tries to build another one but fail because his hands are numb.
Climax
The man knows if he can't build a fire, he will die. He tries running to the camp but he falls. His body is going numb, he tries to escape death. He wants to kill the wolf dog and sheltered himself inside the dead body but then doesn't.
Falling Action
The man knows that he can't go to camp anymore. He decides to face death. He imagines himself at the camp. He admits the old man's advice was right.
Resolution
The man dies. The wolf dog smells death on the man and leaves for the camp alone.
Point of View
Third Person Omniscient
Explain the thoughts and the feelings of both the man and the wolf dog.
Charactors
Major Charactors
The Man
Protagonist
Dynamic
Over confident
The wolf dog
Static
can survive and understand the weather.
Minor Charactors
The old man of Sulphur Creek
give advise the man to do not go alone
The boys in camp
they are the gold of the man that he seek.
Conflict
Internal Conflict
Man vs Himself
He think he can survive.
He wants to kill the wolf dog but then doesn't.
He doesn't want to be late.
External Conflict
Man vs Nature
It was cold.
He keep getting numb by the cold.
Symbolism
The wolf dog
Compassion
The fire
The hope of the man to survive in the winter.
The ice and the snow
The dangerous thing, that can kill the man.
Figurative
Simile
Like the dog, it wanted to hide and seek cover, away from the fearful cold.
Slowly, as he struggled through the snow, he began to see things again—the banks of the creek, the bare trees, and the sky.
He had been running around like a chicken with its head cut off.
he moved suddenly to the side, like a frightened horse.
The man was shocked. It was like hearing his own judgment of death.
Personification
There was the fire, promising life with every dancing flame.
the stars that leaped and danced.
Metaphor
Those old men were rather womanish, he thought.