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Jack London’s “To Build a Fire”: Mastering Nature

Jack London, like the unnamed man described in the story “To Build a Fire,” lived on the edge. Born in 1876, he died a short forty years later. As a young man, he was a full-fledged participant in the Yukon Gold Rush of 1897. Like many others at the time, London made the incredibly arduous journey by foot and handcrafted boat from Dyea in Alaska over Chilkoot Pass—a three-quarter-mile 45-degree-angled obstacle course—and eventually down the Yukon River into the Northwest Territories. The only gold he brought back, however, was an experience that he would mine for gems of literature for much of his writing life, as evidenced in his well known novels like "Call of the Wild" and "White Fang," as well as in “To Build a Fire” (1908), all of which draw on the places he saw and the people he met during those hope-filled and brutal times in the Northwestern Yukon territory. With the generous support of Leon Kass (and in honor of his late wife Amy), Great Hearts is proud to host the entire WSPWH website for open use by teachers and students – including a library of primary texts, lesson plans, discussion videos, author biographies, and more. The curricular materials, which are rooted in the works of great American literary figures – such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jack London, and Willa Cather – is available free of charge and is designed to be an easy, go-to source of materials that promote active reading and critical thinking in the classroom, while also inspiring American citizenship.