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DIRECTIONS: Following are brief excerpts from “To Build a Fire.” Identify the conflict in each as internal or external. Then identify the opposing forces and tell whether the setting is central to the conflict. Finally, identify any irony that may heighten the effect.
1. “It was seventy-five below zero. Since the freezing point is thirty-two above zero, it meant that there were one hundred and seven degrees of frost.”
2. “He tried to keep this thought down, to forget it, to think of something else; he was aware of the panicky feeling that it caused, and he was afraid of the panic.”
3. “He spoke to the dog . . . but in his voice was a strange note of fear that frightened the animal. . . . As it came within reaching distance, the man lost his control.”
4. “High up in the tree one bough capsized its load of snow. . . . It grew like an avalanche, and it descended without warning upon the man and the fire, and the fire was blotted out!”
5. “He was very careful. He drove the thought of his freezing feet, and nose, and cheeks, out of his mind, devoting his whole soul to the matches.”
6. “. . . it was a matter of life and death. This threw him into a panic, and he turned and ran up the creekbed along the old, dim trail.”
7. “Well, he was bound to freeze anyway, and he might as well take it decently.”