Question

How does the setting create conflict in this excerpt?

Read the excerpt from an adaptation of "To Build a
Fire."
The thought of it drove him on again, but he ran no
more than a hundred feet before staggering and
pitching headlong. It was his last panic. It occurred to
him that he had been making a fool of himself, running
around like a chicken with its head cut off. He was
bound to freeze anyway, and he might as well take it
decently and meet death with dignity. With this new-
found peace of mind came the first glimmerings of
drowsiness. A good idea, he thought, to sleep off to
death. Freezing was not so bad as people thought.
There were lots worse ways to die.
The trail is too slippery for the man to navigate.
O The darkness of the night forces the man to desire
sleep.
The extreme cold is more than the man can endure.
O The loneliness of the trail makes the man lose his
sanity.

Answer 1

c

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

O The extreme cold is more than the man can endure.

Step-by-step explanation:

Jack London's "To Build A Fire" revolves around the story of a man stuck in a blizzard and his eventual death. The stubborn nature of the man added to his fate, for he overturned the opinions of the old man not to venture in the cold Yukon mountains at that time. And his impulsive nature of moving ahead with his plan so that he will reunite with his friends at the camp led to the fateful journey along the cold freezing mountains.

The setting of the trial, the cold freezing atmosphere became an obstacle for him in his need to reach his destination. He knows for sure that he will "freeze anyway", for he knows "he had been making a fool of himself, running around like a chicken with its head cut off." And it was this conflict that emerges from the setting that forces the man to accept his fate. He found a new peace of mind, and decided "to sleep off to death".

Thus, the correct answer is that the extreme cold is too extreme for a man to endure, more than one can endure.