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To Build The Fire: Literary Devices: Simile: "Once, Coming Around A CONFLICT: Man vs. Nature Because The

The man struggles against the harsh Yukon environment as he tries to build a fire to survive. As the fire goes out, he realizes he will not survive the cold and his pride has led to his demise at the hands of nature. In his final moments, he faces death with dignity, having been overcome by the unforgiving natural world despite his best efforts.

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To Build The Fire: Literary Devices: Simile: "Once, Coming Around A CONFLICT: Man vs. Nature Because The

The man struggles against the harsh Yukon environment as he tries to build a fire to survive. As the fire goes out, he realizes he will not survive the cold and his pride has led to his demise at the hands of nature. In his final moments, he faces death with dignity, having been overcome by the unforgiving natural world despite his best efforts.

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TO BUILD THE FIRE

American novelist, LITERARY DEVICES:


journalist, and social SIMILE:
activist. A pioneer in the
world of commercial “Once, coming around a
magazine fiction, he was bend, he moved suddenly
CONFLICT: Man vs. nature because the to the side, like a
protagonist try to challenges the nature, one of the first writers to
frightened horse.”(Page
but the nature killed him. become a worldwide 68, paragraph 2)
celebrity and earn a large
“It was his last moment of fear. When he fortune from writing. He “If he fell down it would
had recovered his breath and his control, break, like glass, into
was also an innovator in
he sat and thought about meeting death many pieces.”(Page 67
with dignity.”(Page 78, paragraph 4)
the genre that would later
paragraph 1)
become known as science
fiction PERSONIFICATION:
THEMES:
“There was the fire,
PRIDE AND promising life with
ARROGANCE SYMBOL: every dancing flame.”
NATURALISM
LOYALTY FIRE: It symbolizes life
Naturalism in literature was a
but if it is runs out the
PRIMITIVITY literary movement that began in
life finishes.
MAN VS NATURE
the late nineteenth century
(1865-1900) in film, art, literature
and theater that portrays
common values of an ordinary
individual.' Naturalism was a
literary movement that
suggested the involvement of
environment, heredity and social
conditions in shaping the human
character.

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