Why Is This Good?

101: “To Build a Fire” by Jack London


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In this episode, we discuss “To Build a Fire” by Jack London. What can we learn from this classic, straightforward story? How can immediacy drive a story? How can the story’s setting be an intrinsic part of the narrative? What can we learn from the line “And then it happened”? How does point of view shape our experience of the immediacy of the story?

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