1. What point about instinctive human nature do you think Jack London was trying to make in his short story To Build a Fire? Do you think the presence of the dog has anything to do with that?
2. Why do you think Kurt Vonnegut felt it necessary to write a story about the possible consequences of repression? Do you think something like that could ever actually happen?
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I think Jack London was trying to show what humans instinctually try to do in order to survive. The man in to build a fire tried everything he could do to try and warm up. He tried running, building a fire, eating, cutting the dog open, and more, but nothing he did kept him warm enough to survive. I’m not sure if the dog’s presence really has anything to do with this instinct. The dog nearly became a way for the man to warm his hands! I think the instinctual acts that the man committed were 100% from his human instinct. I don’t think the dog had anything to do with his instinctual thought. --- Sam Koltun
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