Foreshadowing in To Build a Fire :: London To Build a Fire Essays

Foreshadowing in To have a sting   In the story To Build a Fire by rapscallion London, foreshadowing is often used. In this story foreshadowing is an effective focal point to build up a climax. The foreshadowing is both shown by the environment and things the characters say.   An example of environmental foreshadowing was when it said, Fifty degrees below zero stood for a bite of frost that hurt and that must be guarded against.... some other example was when the hu earthkinds fire was blotted out. These examples show that the cold will be the mans doom, further foreshadow only by telling the necessary details.   A major(ip) point of foreshadowing was what the oldtimer told the man. The oldtimer told the man that no man must travel al maven in the Klondike after fifty below. If the man would have listened, he could have survived. Because he didnt listen he garbled his life.   In conclusion, if you read this story c befully you will pick up the sm all hints and know the outcome of the story. This also shows that foreshadowing can be direct statements or simple statements of fact.   Self Confidence   Once a mans self confidence is shaken, it becomes increasingly difficult to act rationally.   If you are in a life or death situation, every decision you get under ones skin stacks the odds either for or against you. Once you make a few bad decisions, you realize that your chances for survival are getting slimmer and slimmer. As this fact settles into your conscious mind, it produces panic. timidity is what happens when the brain cant handle the information it is given. Panic takes over rationality, and as a result, you do and say things that are atypical of you. Panic destroys your self confidence.   In Jack Londons short story To Build a Fire the reader watches a mans mental condition go from high to devastatingly low. At the first of the story, he is very self convinced(p) in his own abilities. T his is evident by the way he keeps formulation the he will be in camp by six.   Also, when one suddenly becomes physically handicapped, and abilities that he depends on and previously took for granted are not available to him, he tends to act very insecurely and unstably.