When people think of naturalism most think of nature lovers or people who like nature. When in fact that’s not it at all. Yes, in naturalism the environment does play an important role. But, it is because the characters in the stories are caught with in the forces of nature, or society, which are beyond their understanding or control. In naturalism there is a showing of brutal realism, which may promote social reform. And the facts in the stories only approach detailed observations of human experiences. In Jack London’s To Build a Fire, the environment in which surrounds him is crucial to the story, he is caught within forces of nature in which he has no control, and that is why this story is great at depicting naturalism.
This story shows the whole of naturalism. The environment, a big part of naturalism, was woven into the stories with descriptions of the surrounding like the sky and the land, with the climate and the temperature. The man, out in nature having no idea that he would step in a trap and become soaked or that the fire would be put out, those show the brutal unseen forces that nature has upon us that we have no control over.
Certain events take place in this story, which really signify this as naturalism writing. Events that the man is, or is not aware of, but either the case has no control over. “ At a place where there were no signs, when the soft, unbroken snow seemed to advertise solidity beneath, the man broke through. He wet himself halfway to the knees before
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