Naturalistic elements in To Build a Fire
By Sharon Chase, grade 12, 136 words

If I were to write a book from a Naturalistic worldview, I would include several identifying characteristics: First, I would make it a story about an extremely uncomfortable experience. Perhaps it would be a story about a man struggling to survive in the Yukon. "Day had broken cold and grey, exceedingly cold and grey, when the man turned aside from the main Yukon trail and climbed the high earth-bank, where a dim and little-travelled trail led eastward through the fat spruce timberland. " He would be determined to survive, but in the end, he would die. "A certain fear of death, dull and oppressive, came to him... This threw him into a panic, and he turned and ran up the creek-bed along the old, dim trail. " Second, I would make Nature the controlling force, not God. My character would have to be pitted against the forces of Nature. "He was losing in his battle with the frost. " I would portray life......

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