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To Build a Fire Study Guide

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by Jack London
About 66 pages (19,816 words)
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To Build a Fire Study Guide consists of approx. 66 pages of summaries and analysis on To Build a Fire by Jack London. Browse the literature study guide below:

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There is white snow for as far as he can see. Spruce trees and a hairline of the main trail can be seen in the distance. The main trail leads south for five hundred miles to Chilkoot Pass and Dyea. It leads north for seventy miles to Dawson. Past Dawson, the trail leads to Nulato and finally to St. Michael on the Bering Sea, a thousand miles away from Dawson. The strangeness of the surroundings makes no impression on the man, even though he is a newcomer to the land, and this is his first winter here. The man has no imagination. He is alert to things around him but not alert to the meaning of things. He is factual and logical, only recognizing the surface of everything. (read more)
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