To Build A Fire: From Thursday, please read the story and answer the following questions on a separate sheet of paper:
1. What was ironic about what many Americans called "Seward's Folly"?
2. Identify at least three (3) internal and (3) external conflicts in the story.
3. What is the Iditarod?
4. Based on the passage describing the hidden creek, what do you predict will happen to the man in the Yukon?
5. How do you feel this story will end - with the man dying from hypothermia, or will he make it to camp?
6. What advice from the old-timer does the man choose to ignore?
7. Why do you think the author decided to NOT give the man a proper name? What is the effect?
8. What does the story suggest about human strength vs. nature's power?
9. What is ironic about the place the man chooses to build his first fire?
10. "Fifty degrees below zero meant eighty-odd degrees of frost. Such fact...did not lead him to meditate upon his frailty as a creature of temperature, and upon man's frailty in general, able only to live within certain narrow limits of heat and cold."
In this passage, the phrase "frailty as a creature of temperature" means:
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