... Ivan Illich" and Jack London's "To Build a Fire" are two fictional stories that describe man's behavior when faced with the final act of life; the death. On the surface, the main characters in those two stories are quite different, as their death approaches however, they become more and more alike. Tolstoy's Ivan Illich is an educated man who lives his live obeiding by all the written ... died at the age of forty-five." The Yukon man, in London's "To Build a Fire" is a simple individual who finds himself in an unfamiliar territory. He is walking back to the camp after a trek in to the w...

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