Wednesday, January 27, 2010

How to build a fire.

How to build I fire
You sit there as you are freezing to death, you can’t even so a simple thing as eat your lunch. In how to build a fire this nightmare was happening to a young man who was traveling through a forests to get to a camp. How to build a fire is tragic story that has a great lesson hidden between the lines.

The plot of this story is a tragic. It starts out with the main character having the problem of having to walk in the cold to the camp, it goes on to him making a fire which is when the main character rises to his power. His character flaw is that he thinks that he can beat the weather. After this comes the tragic fall which is that he can’t start a fire and he is freezing to death. It ends with him dying, this plot is perfect for the tragic mode. Another reason that this is a Tragic is because of the symbols.

The symbols of tragedy are all throughout this story. It starts out the dogs instincts that something will go wrong this is one of the first symbols pointing to tragic. The second one is where he is aculy starting to get in danger and his feet fall through the ice this makes him start to freeze. This is very important because his life is starting to get in danger. His fire is put out by the tree when normally you see the tree as a good thing something that could shelter you from something like the weather but in this story it puts out the fire which eventually kills him. There is more to this then just the mode there is a great lesson to be learned in this story.

In to build a fire a young man learns a lesson a little too late. He learns that you can’t beat the weather and when someone tells you something you should believe what they say because it could save your life. If this man would have listen to the old man he probably wouldn’t be dead, if he would have traveled with a friend then he would have been able to build a fire when he needed it but because of his stupid mistake he lies died.

There’s nothing you can do when you think you can beat the weather, all he could do was sit and freeze. The story of an hour is a tragic story that has a hidden lesson that listen to your elders and be realistic on what you can and can’t do.

1 comment:

  1. You say 'beat the weather a lot' try mixing up your vocabulary next time. But your thesis was very good and caught my attention, good job! :)

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