What are the most serious mistakes the man makes? To what factors doyou attribute these errors?
What will be an ideal response?
- Along the way the man unknowingly makes several fatal mistakes, but perhaps his most serious flaw is to ignore an old-timer’s advice. This man on Sulphur Creek had told our protagonist not to travel alone. Underestimating his adversary, the man fails to ascertain the temperature and to cover his face. He knows about the danger of the springs (snow that appears solid on the surface but hides pools of water underneath that can be as deep as three feet). As he and the dog walk over the creek and encounter many traps, the dog doesn’t want to go. Instead of listening to the dog’s instinct, the man forces him forward, and, eventually, the man does fall into a spring. After he is wet to the knees, he builds a fire in the wrong place—under a tree. The snowfall from the tree branches extinguishes his fire, and he tries unsuccessfully to build another fire. Since his hands have begun to freeze, his fingers cannot hold a match, and by that time it is too late to rectify all that has gone wrong. Once his fingers freeze, he drops all his matches in the snow, and he cannot build a second fire.
Ultimately, the man dies because of his pride (which led him to reject the warnings of others with more experience—including his dog) and because of his failure of imagination.
Canadian Broadcasting made a film of “To Build a Fire,” with Orson Welles reading the entire text of the story over dramatic footage. It is available on DVD.
As a class writing assignment, ask students to retell this story in 500 words from the dog’s point of view.
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What will be an ideal response?