Assignment no.

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Answer the following questions:

Make Judgments
1. London wrote another ending that is commercially acceptable copmared to the earlier
version of To Build a Fire. In this version, the man survives, returns to camp and
learns an important lesson: Never Travel alone. Do you think this ending improves or
weakens the story? Explain your opinion.
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Literary Perspectives
2. How does the protagonists failure to build a fire showed the evidence of Naturalism in
the short story?
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3. How does your knowledge of Naturalism help you understand the perspective from
which London wrote this story?
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 Quiz no. 3 Short Story Critique

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Critic the short story To Build a Fire by Jack London

What is the author trying

to convey through the
short story?

What are your reactions as

a reader? Cite certain
events.

Did you find figures of

speech in the story?

Did you find literary

techniques and devices in
the short story? Cite some
lines and explain how it
help or affect the structure
of the story.

Did the story ended the

way you thought it would?
Did the ending resolve the
plot and brings closure to
the crisis of the characters?