"To Build a Fire" The human body is astonishing. Even with its ability to regulate its temperature, to a certain extent, we can only survive in an extremely low range of temperature. Once this range of temperatures has been exceeded, the human body begins to loss certain function essential for survival. A great example of this is the realistic fiction story "To Build a Fire" written by Jack London. This story takes place in the Alaskan Yukon, where a man is prospecting for gold. "The trouble with the man was that he was without imagination. H was quick and alert in the things of life, but only the things, and not in the significance"(p221). As the man