The man was also warned at the beginning of the story, that when it gets too cold, one must be accompanied with a partner. Ignoring the man at the creek, the main character goes off to do his own thing. The man in to build a fire, possesses great pride in himself, is ignorant of those around him, is selfish, stubborn, and has elicited sympathy from the audience since his fate was in such danger. At the beginning it may seem as if the man knew what to do and what not to do during the cold winters of Alaska. Yet, it was only pride that made him look this way.
It knew that it was no time for traveling. Its instinct told it a truer tale than was told to the man by the man’s judgment” (610). This quote reveals that the dog’s depressed attitude is a sign of its instincts that it is too cold to travel, despite the man’s self-assuredness that they will be fine and make it to the boys by six o’clock. Another example of the dog having superior knowledge about the dangerous weather is when “the dog dropped in again at his heels, with a tail drooping discouragement, as the man swung along the creek bed... the man held steadily on. He was not much given to thinking...” (611).
This man definitely makes presumptuous claims when he disregards the advice given to him by the old timer at Sulphur Creek: never to travel alone when the temperature was more than 50 degrees below zero. However, the dog is relying on his instincts. The dog knows that it is too cold to be out. He knows to bite away the ice from his fur after being in the water, though the man does not know to keep his glove on. The dog is reluctant to leave the fire, but the man assumes he'll be fine after the brief warm-up.
The debate on whether fighting in hockey should be allowed is a tough topic to debate. Fighting should be allowed in order to keep hockey traditions intact, wouldn’t you agree? Most hockey fights do not involve the paramedics and the players who fight get sent to the penalty box. Fighting in hockey is fairly controlled in order to keep the players and fans safe. If you do not agree, Don Cherry Has Arguments about hockey all the time and, sometimes, the players do not want to fight because they fight only to keep their jobs.
And although “The Open Boat” and “To Build a Fire” are written in different styles, they equally exemplify the power of nature set against man through the characters struggles for survival in addition to lose of hope. The stories express how nature never chooses sides, therefore is always apathetic to man. In Jack London’s “To Build a Fire” the character is traveling along the Yukon trail with the weather below zero degrees. On his journey he encounters an old timer who warns him about traveling any father if the weather was below fifty, yet he ignores his warnings and chooses to continue. He could have easily avoided the situation unlike the crew in “The Open Boat” who were already in that situation.
Priam’s heroic gesture to risk his own life for the memory of his son causes him to reflect on, and reconsider his familial relationships. Priam risks his own life to take a chance and retrieve Hectors body, he is old and frail and doesn’t have the stamina to be travelling across the country to get to the Greek camp, and he knows that he wouldn’t be able to fight off anyone or thing that could attack them “I know I am an old man, feeble in body and ill-equipped to go venturing out at this late date into a world of change and accident” However he is willing to risk his life for his dead son, no matter what the consequence. While on the journey to the Greek camp, Somax his carter talks constantly about what would be known as nothing in his palace, yet Priam realises that Somax is filling up the empty silence with pleasant talk; “Interest”. He introduces Priam to small wonders in life like the scenery, feelings of
Call of the Wild As one’s own common sense might tell you, “In the nature of the Arctic travel there was a reason why fourteen dogs should not drag one sled, and that was that one sled could not carry the food for fourteen dogs (65).” Owners that didn’t know this and couldn’t tell between a dog that is tired or a dog that is hungry (like Hal, Charles, and Mercedes) are not good owners; an owner that is competent but stresses his dogs by nonstop running is better – but not the best owner. Two owners that are able to train a pampered Southland dog into the best leader, fighter, and runner in the Yukon are the best owners, excluding John Thornton, showed in The Call of the Wild, by Jack London: their names are Perrault and Francois. Comparing the skills of Perrault and Francois to that of Charles, Hal, and Mercedes, the reader is able to the three’s immense incompetence. They didn’t even see their dogs as a companion, a soul with feelings or any other form of existence other then to carry their stuff, “In the excess of their own misery they were callous to the suffering of their animals (69).” Their worst mistake – out of many! – that they made was ignoring John Thornton’s warning about the ice, “‘The bottom’s likely to drop out at any moment.
has more luxury then the peasant, Nikita, but the peasant is a genuine man even though he has much less. Both of them decide to go out on a journey across the snowy plains, and they both happen to get lost, several times. Upon getting lost both Vasilii and Nikita have to fight for their lives in the harsh weather over night. Nikita stays outside to rest while leaving Vasilii a shelter inside, so he can keep warm. Vasilii then begins to go through a spiritual revelation that he must be with God in the end.
At this point, the Creature has no experience of the world, he reacts to the environment which he is in, but he does not understand. Later, when attacked by the villagers, the Creature does not retaliate and harm them; instead, he runs away to safety (964). This is not because he understands the moral problem of violence, but because he instinctively avoids pain, such as cold or beatings, and is attracted to pleasure, such as warmth and safety. The Creature’s decision to run away instead of fighting back is not a conscious decision but an instinctual one. Even if the Creature had defended himself against the villagers, the action could not have been judged morally, in the same way that an animal cannot be judged evil for defending itself.
For instance, the Man never took heed of the older man’s warning about the harsh environment awaiting him in the Yukon and as a result died due to his arrogance. Also Rainsford was a person who was completely full of himself as a hunter and arrogant towards hunting animals. One of the main differences seen between Rainsford and the Man is the fact that Rainsford lives and the Man dies at the end