Jack London's "To Build a Fire"

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Call 800-832-7597. That's 800-832-7597 800-832-7597. This is our American stories we tell stories about all kinds of things here on the show. We love spending time on music arts and literature Jack London's most famous works include the call of the wild and White Fang both sit in the Klondike gold rush as well as his short story to build a fire. Here's Greg Hendler with more on Jack London, Jack London carved out his own hardscrabble life as a team. In his free time he hunkered down at library soaking up novels and travel books his life as a writer essentially began in 1893. Here he had weathered a treacherous voyage, one in which typhoon had really taken out London and his crew. The 17-year-old adventurer had made it home and regaled his mother with his tales of what happened to him when she saw an announcement in one of the local papers for a writing contest. She pushed her son to write down and submit his story armed. It's just an eighth-grade education. London captured the $25 first prize beating out college students from Berkeley and Stanford for London. The contest was an eye-opening experience and you decided to dedicate his life to writing short stories, but he had trouble finding willing publishers. In fact, Jack London kept all of his rejection letters from the first five years of his writing career and impaled each one of them want to spend the impaled letters 600 of them eventually reached a height of 4 feet when White Fang was first published in 1906 Jack London was well on his way to becoming one of the most famous popular and highly paid writers in the world. In fact, London was the first author in the world to become a millionaire from his writing. He died at his California ranch November 22, 1916 he was 40 years old to build a fire takes place in the snowy world of the Yukon where it's so cold you spit freezes before it even hits the ground. After spending a very influential part of his young life mining for gold in the Arctic North London returned to the states a changed man. He was certain that civilization and its modern conveniences had turned everyone in men in particular do a bunch of wimps and he felt that people needed to reconnect with their natural instincts and common sense. If they wish to remain strong against the pampering forces of the modern world here to narrate the gripping finale of Jack London's masterpiece to build a fire. Roger McGrath's five below zero. This first attempt to build a fire if his feet wet or dry fails along the trail for half a mile and restore his circulation but the circulation of wet freezing cannot be restored by running with 75 below matter how fast he runs the wet feet will freeze the harder all this, the man who the old-timer of sulfur Creek and told him about it.

The previous fall and now he was appreciating the advice already all sensation gone out of his feet to build a fire been forced to remove his mittens in the fingers and quickly got noneof 4 miles an hour, his heart pumping public to the surface of his body and all the extremities but the instant he stopped the action of the pump down space school unprotected tip of the planet and he on that unprotected receive the full force of global the blood of his body before it was alive like the dog. The dog wanted to hide away and cover itself from the fearful.

So long as he walked 4 miles an hour. Blood willy-nilly surface, but now it is the way and sank into the recesses of his body extremities were the first to feel its absence is what feet froze, the faster his exposed fingers faster, though they had not yet begun to freeze nose and cheeks were already freezing of the skin of all this body shield as it lost its blood, but he was safe to send news cheeks could only be touched by the frost for the fire was beginning to burn with strength was feeding with twigs the size of his finger in another minute you would be able feet with branches the size of his wrist and then remove his footgear and while it tried to keep his naked feet warm by the fire, rubbing them at first course was snow. The fire was a success. He was safe to remember the advice of the old-timer in Silver Creek smile.

I'm very serious in laying down the law man was traveling alone in the Klondike. After 50 below well. Was the accident he was alone and he saved himself those old-timers rather womanist sum of all a man had to do was keep his head and he was all right man who's a man could travel alone, but it was his threat with which his cheeks and loose with freezing and he had not thought his fingers lifeless and so short a time, lifeless. They were for. He could scarcely make the move together to grip a twig and they seemed removed from his body and from him when he touched a quick look and see whether or not he had hoped with it.

The wires were pretty well down between him and his finger in all of which counted for little there was the fire snapping and crackling and promising life with every dancing flame. He started to untie his moccasins work with nice thick German socks were like sheaths of iron to his knee in the moccasins drink like rods of steel all twisted and knotted by some cut from Gratian for a moment he tugged his numb fingers and realizing the folly of it.

He drew a sheath knife but before he could cut the strings it happened. It was his own fault rather his mistake should not fire under the spruce tree should build the open easy to pull twigs from the brush and drop them directly on the fire. Now the tree under which he had done this carried the weight of snow on its bow's the wind: for weeks, and each bout was fully freighted each time he pulled a twig. It communicated a slight agitation to the tree and imperceptible agitation so far as he was concerned but in agitation sufficient to bring about the disaster high up in the tree one bow capsized its load of snow. This fell on the bows beneath capsizing them. This process continued spreading out involving poultry like an avalanche descended without warning upon the man in the fire and the fire was plotted out where to bird was a mantle of fresh and disordered snow was shocked. It was as though he just heard his sentence of death for a moment, he sat and stared spot where the fire had been and he grew very, practicing old-timer in Silver Creek was right feet only have the trio made danger now will make fire and were listening to Roger McGrath our in-house historian on all things frontier reading Jack London's remarkable to build a fire when we come back we'll get to hear more of this story here on our American stores need life insurance but have diabetes, high blood pressure or unexciting meds.

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Even if he succeeded most likely to his feet badly frozen by now.

And there would be some time before the second fire was ready such worse thoughts but he did not sit and think it was busy all the time they were passing through his mind. He made a new foundation for fire, this time in the open where no treacherous tree blotted out. Mix together dry grasses contain twigs from the high water flotsam could not bring his fingers together to pull them out but he was able to gather them by the handful in this way many rotten twigs, bits of green house or undesirable, but it was the best he could do work methodically even collecting and armful of the larger branches use later when the fire gathered strength and all the while dog sat and watched him a certain yearning wistfulness in its eyes. Ford looked upon him as the fire provider and the fire was slow in coming was ready. The man reached in his pocket first piece of birchbark. He knew that Mark was there and we could not feel it with his fingers. Crisp wrestling as he fumbled for it, tried as clutch hold of and all the time in his consciousness was the knowledge that each instant is refreezing this thought, but he fought against Call. He pulled on his mittens with his teeth and thrust his arms back and forth between his hands with all his might against the sides into the sitting down and he stood up to do it and all the while dog sat in the snow.

It's wolf person. The tail curled over its 4 feet its sharp wolf ears perked forward, intently watched the man and the man threshed his arms and hands.

The great surge of envy has regarded the creature that was warm and secure in its natural covering after time he was aware of the first four-way signals of sensation in his fingers. Think tingling grew stronger that would evolve the listing was excruciating which and satisfaction. He stripped from his right, and fetched forth the birchbark expose fingers quickly going them again next he brought out his bunch of sulfur matches but the tremendous school that already driven the life out of his fingers in his effort to separate one match from the others.

The whole bunch fell in the snow. Try to pick it out of snow but fail fingers could not touch clutch.

He was very careful. He drove the thought of his freezing feet, whose cheeks with his mind devoting his whole soul to the matches. He watched using the sense of vision in place of that of touch and when he saw his fingers on each side of the bunch equals that is, he will for the wires were down in the fingers did not obey on his right hand and beat it fiercely against his knee with both hands. The bunch of matches along with much snow into his lap. Yet he was no trough after some manipulation managed to get the bunch between hands in this fashion.

To his mouth. Yes, crackled and stepped on by a violent effort he opened his mouth. The lower jaw of the upper lip out-of-the-way screen bunch in order to separate a match succeeded in getting one which dropped on his lap. He was no better could not pick up the device to weigh in his teeth and scratched it on display 20 times he scratched before six flame.

He held his teeth to the birchbark but the burning brimstone went up his nostrils and into his lungs, causing the cough spasmodically the match snow and went down the old-timer in Silver Creek was right. He fought in the moment of control. The spirit of this after 50 below. A man should travel with a partner. His hands, but filled with exciting any sensation suddenly beer both hands removing the mittens with his teeth caught a whole bunch between the heels of his hands as our muscles not being frozen and label him depressed and heels tightly matches that he scratched the bunch along his leg flared in the flame 70 school for matches. Once snow amount one side to escape the sprinkling fumes and held the blazing bunch birchbark as he so held. He became aware of sensation in his hand. His flesh was burning smell deep down below the surface. The sensation developed and the pain grew acute and still he endured in the flame of matches clumsily to the park would not light reverently because his own hands were in the way absorbing flame at last, when he could do no more support. The pleasing matches fill sizzling into the snow but the birchbark was a light began laying dry grasses and the twigs on the flame could not pick and choose Fred lift the fuel between the heels of his hands. Small pieces of rotten green moss twigs them off as well as he could stay to cherish the flame carefully, awkwardly, life must not perish, withdrawal of blood from the surface of his body now meeting begin to ship in group more awkward large piece of green moss fell squarely on the little fire try to poke it out with his fingers with his shivering frame 24 and he disrupted the little nucleus of the little fire burning grasses and tiny twigs separated and scattering try to poke them together again. But in spite of the tenseness of this effort.

Shivering got away with in the twigs were hopelessly scattered each puff of smoke and went out a fire provider and failed as he looked apathetically about his eyes chanced on the dog sitting across the ruins of the fire from in the scope making restless hunching movements slightly lifting one forefoot and in the other, shifting his weight back and forth on with wistful eagerness, the site of the dog put a wild idea into his head or the tail of a man caught in a blizzard killed the steering crawled inside the carcass and so was saved, he would kill the dog and bury his hands in the warm body numbness went out of them and he could build another fire and you're listening to Dr. Roger McGrath telling the story of to build a fire. Jack London's classic you like to do this periodically because the stories will they must live on and they been sort of almost eviscerated from the curriculum among schools when we come back we continue with Jack London's to build a fire. The final installment here on our American store need life insurance but have diabetes, high blood pressure or unexciting meds.

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He glanced down at first. In order to assure himself that he was really standing up for the absence of sensation in his feet left them related to your direct position in itself started to drive webs of suspicion from the dog's mind and when he spoke peremptorily with the sound whiplash is in his voice. The dog rendered customer religions came to him as he came within reaching distance.

The man lost control. His arms flashed out to the dog and experience genuine surprise when he discovered that his hands could not clutch that there was neither in his fingers. It forgotten for the moment that they were frozen and that they were freezing more and more all this happened quickly before they'll look good. Weight encircled its body with his arms sat down in the snow in this fashion the dog and wind struggled but we could do hold his body and strictly miss… There he realized he could not kill the dog is no way to do it with his helpless hands. He could neither stronghold's sheath knife throwing William.

He released the punch wildly away with tail between its legs and still start in all the 40 feet away and surveyed years sharply pricked forward. The man looked down at his hands in order to locate the found hanging on the ends of his arms struck mysterious, but no one should have to use his eyes in order to find out where his hands were begin thrashing his arms back and forth beating hands against the sides. He did this for five minutes in his heart pumped enough blood to the surface put a stop to shivering, but no sensation was rousting his hands. He had an impression that they were unlike weights on the ends of his arms when he tried to run the impression down.

He could not find a certain fear of death and oppressive came to this.

He became poignant as he realized it was no longer mere matter freezing his fingers and toes were losing his hands and feet, but that was a matter of life and death with the chances against him is through them into a panic, turned and ran the creek bed along the Old Trl., John joined in mind.

They kept up with him. He ran blindly without intention, in fear, such as he had never known in this life slowly as he plowed and floundered through the snow began to see things again the banks of the creek timber jams, leafless aspens in the sky running made him feel better, did not ship your hand on his feet with file in any way he ran far enough to reach camp and the boys without doubt some fingers and toes and some of his face, but the boys would take care of save the rest of them.

When he got there and at the same time there is another thought in his mind that said he would never get to the camp of the boys was 20 miles away at the freezing had to great start on and that he would soon be stiff and dead this thought he kept in the background and refused to consider.

Sometimes it pushed itself forward and demanded to be thrust it back and strove to think of other things. It struck him is curious that he could run it all on feet so frozen. I could not feel when they struck the earth and took the weight of his body. He seemed to himself to skim above the surface and have no connection with the earth Sapori at once seen a winged Mercury 100 Mercury felt as he felt when skimming over the earth's theory of running to reach camp and the boys. One flaw that he lacked endurance.

Several times he stumbled and finally tottered crumpled up and fill when he tried to rise. He failed to sit and rest, he decided next time he would merely walk and keep on going as he sat and regained his breath. He noted that he was feeling quite warm and comfortable.

He was not shivering and it even seeing the warm glow come to his chest and trunk, and yet when he touched his nose or cheeks was no sensation honey were not thought about what he thought his hands and feet and the thought came to the frozen portions of his body must be extending it.

Try to keep the font down to forget to think of something else was aware of the panicky feeling that cost is afraid of a panic, but the thought asserted itself, and persisted until the produced vision of his body, totally frozen.

This was too much and he made another wild run along the trail. Once he slowed down to walk, but the thought of the freezing extending itself again.

And over time the dog ran with them at his heels when he filled out a second time. It curled its tail over its 4 feet and sat in front of him facing up curiously. The intent of warmth and security of the animal angered him and cursed it to let flattens down the years up easily this time.

The shivering came more quickly upon the man he was losing his battle with Frost was creeping into his body from all sides thought of it. Brueggemann ran no more than hundred feet. We staggered pitched at long. It was his last panic when he recovered his breath and control is set up and entertaining his mind the conception of meeting with dignity.

However, the conception did not come to him in such terms.

His idea was that he had been making a fool of himself running around like a chicken with its head cut off. Such was the simile occurred. Well, he was bound to freeze anyway.

I might as well take it decently. With this newfound peace of mind.

The first clue brings drowsiness. IDA thought to sleep off death like taking in an aesthetic freezing was not so bad as people thought there were lots worse ways to die. He pictured the boys finding his body next day suddenly found himself with them coming along the trail looking for himself and still with them. He came around to turn in the trail and found himself lying in the snow did not go along with himself anymore. For even then he was out of himself standing with the boys and looking at himself in the snow. It certainly was cool was his thought. When he got back to the states to tell folks what real cold was drifted on from this vision of the old-timer in Silver Creek. He could see quite clearly warm and comfortable smoking a pipe. You were right all loss, you were right. The man mumbled the old-timer of sulfur Creek trials often would seem the most comfortable and satisfying sleep ever known. The dog sat facing him and waiting the brief day drew to a close long slow twilight.

There were no signs of a fire to be made. Besides, never the dog's experience had known the man this like that in the school would make no fire later whined loudly and still later crept close to the man caught this spate the person back way a little longer delay howling under the stars leapt and dance shone brightly in the cold sky turned and trotted trail in the direction of the camp where were the other food providers and fire fighters. What storytelling and report writing and we thank Dr. Roger McGrath reading to build a fire by Jack London dear on our American stores just around the corner and read the material on a family-friendly modern outside and enjoy conversation overhaul the offense help to make your home phone lunch, not fabulous Ashley.com. Thank need life insurance but have diabetes, high blood pressure or on anxiety meds. If you're a 50-year-old male even 40 or with type II diabetes.

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