Character and Setting in "To Build a Fire," Part 1
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Read the passage from Part 1 of "To Build a Fire."
What do these details about setting reveal to the reader?
He was bound for the old claim on the left fork of
Henderson Creek, where the boys were already. They had
come over across the divide from the Indian Creek
country, while he had come the roundabout way to take a
look at the possibility of getting out logs in the spring from
the islands in the Yukon. He would be in to camp by six
o'clock, a bit after dark...
why the man is alone
O whom the man admires
O how the man finds trails
what the man enjoys