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The environment greatly influenced the man from To Build a Fire and Craig Johnson. In both stories, the temperature was below zero. The article about the Alaskan man says, “A man in Alaska says it's a miracle that he survived three days in the wilderness while battling sub-zero temperatures”(News). Similarly, in To Build a Fire states, “...it was colder than 60 below, than seventy below. It was 75 below zero.”(London,66). This shows that both texts had a man that struggled against the harsh weather. However, the man from To Build a Fire was in the Yukon and Craig Johnson was in Alaska. London, the author of To Build a Fire says, “Day had dawned cold and gray when the man turned aside from the main Yukon trail.”(London 64). In contrast to the …show more content…

The man’s purpose in To Build a Fire was to find lumber lumber logs.In TBAF it says, “They had come across the mountain from the Indian Creek country. He had taken the long trail to look at the possibility of floating logs from the islands in the Yukon down the river when the ice melted.”(London, 66). The man from To Build a Fire needed to find the lumber because that's why he was out in the Yukon in the first place. Unlike the man from To Build a Fire, Craig Johnson was out in the cold for the holidays. In the article written about Craig Johnson it states, “He was on his way to visit family for the holidays. ’I almost gave up ... But I couldn't give up. I had to do it for my boys, my family,’ he said. ‘I think it's a miracle that I'm alive.’” (News) Craig Johnson was trying to meet up with his family. That was the reason he decided for three long days to persevere and try to fight on. Likewise, one reason the man from To Build a Fire way to also meet up with some friends. To Build a Fire says, “He was headed for the old camp on Henderson Creek, where the boys were already. They had come across the mountain from the Indian Creek country... He would be in camp by six o’clock that evening.” (London, 66) Both the man from To Build a Fire and Craig Johnson were still trying to survive was because they had to meet …show more content…

In To Build a Fire the dog and the man did not have a strong relationship. “There was no real bond between the dog and he man. The one was the slave of the other. The dog made no effort to indicate it’s fears to the man. It was not concerned with the well-being of the man.” The man and the dog in To Build a Fire did not have a strong bond. Similar to the Craig Johnson article, the man and the wolverine did not have a bond at all.“In his icy clothes, Johnson walked 30 miles searching for help while being stalked by a wolverine. ‘You could hear it on the ice, just playing with me, toying with me,’ he said. After warning shots failed to scare off the animal, Johnson said he used a stick to defend himself.” Craig Johnson was nothing but a snack to the wolverine therefore there was no bond between the animal and the man. However, the dog in To Build A Fire did not try to harm the man in anyway. At the end of the story in To Build A Fire the man had passed due to the cold weather. The dog did not think about eating the man while he laid in the snow lifeless. The story states, “And still later it moved close to the man and caught the smell of death. This made the animal back away.” This shows that the dog was not interested in the man anymore because he was then

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