Today you handed in your POWERFUL WORD CHOICES from yesterday's text, "To Build a Fire" by Jack London. We discussed some of your choices and then moved on to talk about the storyline or the PLOT.
The plot tells of a man who struggled against nature while traveling through the woods in negative eighty degree weather. Because he walked with a dog by his side, we can easily see a contrast between the dog and the man. Dog (INSTINCT): -knew that the man would provide shelter, so he stayed with the man -stayed by the fire, but not too close -walked carefully on fragile snow to ensure that he didn't step on thin ice instead -ran away from the man when the man turned violent Man (LOGIC): -was planning ahead for the spring -took along a dog so that he would be safer while traveling alone -tried to kill the dog so he could warm his hands inside the carcass and eventually make a fire The reason that this INSTINCT vs LOGIC is that London was a NATURALIST. We'll talk more about that on Monday. Have a
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