The Man
He put himself in a dangerous, potentially deadly, situation because of this character flaw.
What is over confident and invulnerability?
What is a husky?
The temperatures on the Yukon trail, in this story, have reached this degree.
What is -75 degrees below zero.
The author, Jack London, gives us subtle clues, called this, throughout the story of what fate the man would undoubtedly meet.
What is foreshadowing?
During this time of the year, this is seldom seen on the Yukon Trail.
What is the sun?
He did not heed the wisdom and advice from this mentioned, however never present, character.
Who is The man from Sulphur Creek?
The dog was dependent upon the man to create this.
What is fire?
The story takes place here.
What is the Yukon Trail in Alaska?
The story is told from this perspective.
What is 3rd person omniscient?
The man attempted to eat his biscuits, but he couldn't because of this.
When he removed his mittens, his hands froze and he wasn't able to get the amber ice beard broken off of his face to open his mouth to eat before the biscuits froze?
He set his first fire beneath a doomed overhang made up of this.
What is a snow and ice covered tree?
What is he left the man's body to find camp where there would be fire and food?
When the man tried to spit, this happened.
What is the spittle froze to ice before hitting the ground?
Telling the story with a 3rd person omniscient narrator provides the readers with this.
What are the insightful thoughts of all characters? (The man and the dog.)
During the trip, the man chuckled to himself because he realized he forgot to do this.
What is build a fire?
The man's personality continues to do this to him throughout the story.
What is constantly puts him in danger of getting frost bite, starving, and freezing to death?
The dog relies solely on its ability to survive with this.
What are his instincts?
What did the man try to do after his second fire failed out of sheer panic.
He tried to run the rest of the way to the cabin at sulfur creek.
Jack London uses this writing style to stress to the reader the environmental dangers of nature and the extreme realities the man faced on the Yukon Trail.
What is Naturalism and Realism?
Nearing the end of the man's journey, he was experiencing extreme signs of this, a sign he would for sure lose some toes, fingers, and parts of his face if he survived.
What is frost bite?
The man's lack of respect for the power of nature ultimately lead him to this.
What is his death by freezing?
Due to his natural instincts, the dog can detect this, that his human counterpart cannot.
What are dangers on the trail?
After the man fell through a thin layer of ice over a small creek, this happened.
What is his legs were covered half way up with water, and his wool socks and moccasins froze to his legs?
Two of the major themes in this story are this.
What are the power of nature, man's insignificance, instinct vs. reason, and/or the theory of natural selection (or survival of the fittest)?
The man constantly is referencing making it to here, his final destination.
What is the camp where the boys are?