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Exposition: Setting
The setting is January Day, in Paul Creek and Cherry Creek sixty degrees below zero. -
Exposition: characterization
His characterization is presented as a dashing young fellow, with big bones and muscles and he has a strong head and heart. -
Rising Action Part 1
The first part of the rising action is that he started hiking six miles in determination to reach Paul Creek. From hiking fifteen miles later, he stopped to eat lunch, but as he took out a biscuit to eat, his fingers began to numb quickly, losing feeling in his body. -
Rising Action Part 2
The second rising action is after he completely lost feeling in his hands, he finished eating and headed towards Cherry Creek. Suddenly, he began to lose feeling in his legs. -
Climax
The climax is when he is walking on a large frozen body of water, the man broke the ice and felt the freezing, sharp water on his legs. After getting out of that dangerous situation, he knew the only thing left to do is build a fire in help of survival of this blizzard. -
Falling Action Part 1
The falling action begins with him knowing that now since he got out of a life or death situation, he has to be extra careful in making the best decision in favor of survining and not dying. He tried to make a fire with wood and used his sulphur matches in his jacket pockets, but it is almost impossible to light matches with Alaskan gloves in snow. As he first gets a fire sparked, a pound of snow comes falling from a tree and lands on top of the spark. -
Falling Action Part 2
The second part of the falling action starts when after several failures at attempting to make a fire, the man started hitting his legs and arms on large logs in desperation to gain back feeling from the numbness. When he totally loses hope and starts to sob in his gloves, when suddenly gains the determination from remembering the leftover matches he has in his pocket. -
Resolution
The resolution is when the man finally got the matches to light in his hand, and felt the fire burning his flesh, he knew he was going to survive that day. He said that burning hands are better than dead hands with no feeling at all.