“To Build A Fire,” by Jack London, was the story of a man whose job was to ship logs in the spring. The author uses the 8 aspects of fiction to reflect his view that it takes brains to survive. The characters in the story are used to move the story forward and help the author establish themselves among their audience. The plot is the scenario in which the story itself takes place. The setting is the environment in which the story takes place. Suspense is when the author hides information from the reader so that the reader continues reading to find out what will happen. Foreshadowing is the reader's way of telling what is going to happen in the story. It does this when the author gives clues in the story. Fantasy is “the suspension of disbelief in the story,” so that the reader can enjoy the work of fiction. Images are created when the reader takes into consideration that the author is giving them specific clues so that they can picture the scene. These 8 aspects of fiction are explained in more depth in the paragraphs to come. The author uses these aspects of fiction to clearly show that it takes brains to survive. In this specific story, the author does not 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 remarkable traits that manifest in the story as you read it. Some of these characteristics are that the man was courageous in undertaking this journey, he ...