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

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Select the correct answer. lyric poems often deal with intense emotions. which statement best describes the shift in emotion in "lift every voice and sing" as it moves from the first into the second stanza? lift every voice and sing till earth and heaven ring, ring with the harmonies of liberty; let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies, let it resound loud as the rolling sea. sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us, sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us, facing the rising sun of our new day begun let us march on till victory is won. stony the road we trod, bitter the chastening rod, felt in the days when hope unborn had died; yet with a steady beat, have not our weary feet come to the place for which our fathers sighed? we have come over a way that with tears has been watered, we have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered, out from the gloomy past, till now we stand at last where the white gleam of our bright star is cast. a. the joyful call of the first stanza gives way to a bitter recounting of history in the second. b. the first stanza's anger is replaced by the second stanza's resignation. c. the poem moves from a sense of wonder in the first stanza toward a sense of perplexity in the second. d. there is no change between the first stanza and the second. the emotions are the same in both.

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