“To Build A Fire” (p.1908) Jack London Flashcards
Quote linking to My Antonia and the trail
“where a dim and little trail led eastward”
Quote linking to Gatsby and time
“It was a steep bank, and he paused at the top, excusing the act to himself by looking at his watch”
Quote linking to Immigration and ‘Innocence to Awareness’
“He was a newcomer in the land..and this was his first winter”
Quote linking to imagination, perhaps hope, : “The trouble with him was he had no…”
“…imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in the significance”
Quote linking to telos
“It did not lead him to the conjectural field of immortality and mass place in the universe”
Quote linking to subjugation
“That there should be anything more to it than that was a thought that had never entered his head”
Quote linking to Darwanism
“But the brute had its instincts”
Quote linking to nature vs nurture: “It merely obeyed the mysterious prompting…”
“…that arose from the deep crypts of its being”
Quote linking to mysogyny
“Those old timers were rather womanish, some of them, he thought. All a man had to do was keep his head, and he was all right”
“Any man who was a man could travel alone”
Quote linking to the cruelty of the land: “He cherished the flame carefully and awkwardly…”
“…It meant life, and it must not perish”
