The Importance Of Setting In To Build A Fire By Jack London
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Setting is the time and place in which the events of a work of literature take place. Setting is a very important aspect of a story. Setting not only tells you where the story is taking place but it also help you visualize the story more and can make a fiction story seem nonfiction. In the story “To Build A Fire” by Jack London the setting is in the Yukon during the great Klondike Gold Rush. The setting in this story makes it very hard to survive and obviously very hard to build a fire. Setting impacts this story in many ways but the main ways setting impact this is the distance traveled, how isolated the man is and extremely cold weather. The story states, “It lead north 75 miles to Dawson, and still farther on the north a thousand miles