Journal 16

This quote relates to both Swede in “The Blue Hotel” and the hiker in “To Build a Fire” because both are effected by outside forces and also with their own traits. In “The Blue Hotel” Swede becomes drunk and then loses his temper. He was given the drink by Mr. Scully and then the other character start to let him and Johnny Scully. The other charcter were encouraging them to fight. In the end Swede gets killed. If it weren’t for the outside forces, Swede’s traits, and the weather, which brought them together none of that would of happened. The hiker’s death in “To Build a Fire” was brought on because of nature and his own traits. The cold climate was mainly the reason he deid but alos because of his character. If he would have listened to others around him about going out by himself he probably could have survived.