“To Build A Fire,” by Jack London was the story of a man whose job is to ship logs in the spring. The author uses the 8 aspects of fiction to reflect his point of view that it takes brains to survive. The characters in the story are used to move the story forward and help the author meet his audience. The plot is the plot in which the story itself takes place. The setting is the environment in which the story takes place. Suspense is when the author withholds information from the reader so that they keep reading to find out what will happen. Foreshadowing is the way the reader tells what will happen in the story. It does this when the author provides clues in the story. Fantasy is “the suspension of disbelief in the story,” so the reader can enjoy the work of fiction. The images are made when the reader takes into consideration that the author is giving him specific clues so that he can imagine the scene. These 8 aspects of narrative will be explained in more depth in the following paragraphs. The author uses these aspects of fiction to make it clear that it takes brains to survive. In this specific story the author doesn't give the character a name, he simply calls him "the man", as if the story is in a third person point of view. The character has many great traits that are shown in the story as you read. Some of these characteristics are that the man was courageous in undertaking this journey ...