"To Build a Fire" by Jack London

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Questions
1.Roughly how much of London's story is devoted to describing the setting? What particular   details make it memorable?

2.To what extent does setting determine what happens in this story?

3.From what point of view is London's story told?

4.In "To Build a Fire" the man is never given a name. What is the effect of his being called simply "the man" throughout the story?

5.From the evidence London gives us, what stages are involved in the process of freezing to death? What does the story gain from London's detailed account of the man's experience with each successive stage?

6.What are the most serious mistakes the man makes? To what factors do you attribute these errors?


相關連結
To Build a Fire原文
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/To_Build_a_Fire
To Build a Fire 朗讀mp3檔 from LibriVox(mp3@64kbps - 19.2MB)
http://librivox.org/short-story-collection-003/
Jack London作品集(from WIKISOURCE)
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Jack_London
To Build a Fire:Plot Summary (Read the original story first. Trust me. The summary is not much shorter than the story itself.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Build_a_Fire