1. Do Now/Quick write: Stephen Crane, naturalist American author, wrote, “When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important, and that she feels she would not maim the universe by disposing of him, he at first wishes to throw bricks at the temple, and he hates deeply the fact that there are no bricks and no temples.” What is a valid interpretation of this quote? Do you agree or disagree? Stephen Crane, naturalist American author, wrote, “When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important, and that she feels she would not maim the universe by disposing of him, he at first wishes to throw bricks at the temple, and he hates deeply the fact that there are no bricks and no temples.” What is a valid interpretation of this quote? Do you agree or disagree?

2. Aim: How does London exemplify an ideological shift in To Build a Fire? As a boy, the first heroes that I put into my Pantheon were Napoleon and Alexander the Great. Later on I destroyed this Pantheon and build a new Pantheon in which I began inscribing such names as David Starr Jordan, as Herbert Spencer, as Huxley, as Darwin, as Tyndall. As a boy, the first heroes that I put into my Pantheon were Napoleon and Alexander the Great. Later on I destroyed this Pantheon and build a new Pantheon in which I began inscribing such names as David Starr Jordan, as Herbert Spencer, as Huxley, as Darwin, as Tyndall. – Jack London, in a letter from September 7, 1915

3. Aim: How does London exemplify an ideological shift in To Build a Fire? Determinism—man has no free will Amorality—man is not responsible for his actions. Fatalism—man’s actions are an act of fate.Instinct is superior to intellect. Nature is a harsh, indifferent force acting in our lives. Numbers and facts have an objective power.

4. Aim: How does London exemplify an ideological shift in To Build a Fire? No free will “It happened”

5. Aim: How does London exemplify an ideological shift in To Build a Fire? What theme? “rather, his mistake”

6. Aim: How does London exemplify an ideological shift in To Build a Fire? There must be a reason for the dead status of the black There must be something in race heredity; else I would not leap at the summons.” “I am my father’s son, and the line goes back to the sea-kings who never slept under the smoky rafters of a roof or drained the ale horn by inhabited hearth. There must be a reason for the dead status of the black, a reason the Anglo-Saxon spreading over the earth as no other race has ever spread. There must be something in race heredity; else I would not leap at the summons.” – Jack London, A Daughter of Snows