Naturalism in "To Build a Fire" by Jack LondonThis essay has problems with the formatWhen Jack London wrote "To Build a Fire" he embraced the idea of ​​naturalism because it reflected the events of daily life. Naturalism showed how humans had to be careful around every corner because at any moment death could be there, waiting for them to make a mistake and lose their life. He used naturalism, the most realistic literary movement, to show how violent and indifferent nature really is and how, no matter what you do, nature will always be there. London also presented the basic idea of ​​Darwinism and survival of the fittest, basically if you are stupid you will die. Collectively, London used naturalism to show how in life humans cannot depend on anything other than themselves to survive. “Building a Fire” is a short story that embodies the idea of ​​naturalism and how if you are not careful, nature will take over and humans will perish. When the narrator introduces the main character of the story, the man, he made it clear that the man was in a dangerous situation involving the elements. The man faced temperatures of 75 degrees below zero and was not physically or mentally prepared for survival. London wrote that the cold "did not lead him to meditate on his frailty as a creature subject to temperature, and on the frailty of man in general, capable only of living within certain narrow limits of heat and cold." (p.1745) At first when The man began his journey to the camp, he was certain that he could return to the camp before dinner. As the journey progressed, the man made one mistake after another that sealed his fate. The man's first mistake was to step into a pool of water and get his legs wet up to the knees. This mistake forced the man to make a fire to dry his wet socks and shoes so that his feet would not freeze and freeze. When the man began to light the fire, he did not realize that he was doing it under a large fir tree loaded with snow, where he got the firewood. When the man had a small fire that was beginning to die, the disturbance to the tree caused snow to fall to the ground and put out the fire. "It was his fault or, rather, his mistake. He shouldn't have lit the fire under the spruce. He should have lit it in the open air." (1750). That small detail of critical fire placement ultimately cost the man his life. The third... middle of the paper... when he began to panic as the second fire went out. He seemed to have lost all knowledge of his survival skills. He thought about killing the dog and wallowing in its steaming bowels to protect himself from the cold. "The sight of the dog put a crazy idea into his head. He remembered the story of a man, caught in a blizzard, who killed a steer and crawled into the carcass, and was thus saved."(1752). When the man realized that the dog wouldn't let him get closer, he was forced to come up with another plan. His idea was that if he ran to the camp, he would be able to survive. Unfortunately, that plan also failed and the man died in the numbing cold snow of the Yukon. Overall, naturalism is the most realistic literary movement. It parallels life more than any other movement because it reveals the fact that nature has no heart or emotions. Nature has no compassion for human struggles and will continue on its path of destruction and damage regardless of the circumstances. Works Cited: London, Jack. "To light a fire." Sipiora, Filippo. Read and write about literature. Ed. Filippo Sipiora. Upper Saddle River: Pearson., 2002. 149-158.