Naturalism of The Open Boat and To Build a Fire

The idea of naturalism states the events simply happen and just because, and characters’ actions are based upon these events. However, the man in “To Build a Fire” seems to be at fault for everything that happens to him because of his so called bad luck. This would make it seem like Nature is against him, but Nature is still indifferent to the man’s presence because the weather would be the same regardless if the man was there. The man does not seem to be experienced enough to be able to survive what nature throws at him. He ignores everything

Unlike the man in “To Build a Fire,” the men in “The Open Boat” instinctively know exactly what they have to do together to survive, while the man does almost everything wrong and cannot even help himself. Nature in “The Open Boat” seems to attack the men without haste, although the events just happen to the men because they are just there. On the other hand, Nature in “To Build a Fire” simply watches the man make his mistakes and is not out to get him, while the dog does what is instinctively correct to survive. The man in “To Build a Fire” puts himself in situations that he could have easily avoided, while the men in “The Open Boat” are already in the situation. Things happen to the characters in both stories just because they are in the face of Nature, and Nature does not do things because the men are there at the moment. Also the characters react to the environment, and in both cases, the reaction is to do what it takes to survive.

In “The Open Boat,” the men were in a situation that they did not choose to be in, yet they were. The four men cannot conquer nature

Some topics in this essay:
Nature Nature, Build Fire”, Jack London, “to build fire”, “to build, “the boat”, build fire”, Boat” London’s, events happen, “the boat” situation, nature nature, idea naturalism, boat” situation,