The man flung a look back along the way he had come. The Yukon lay a mile wide and hidden under three feet of ice. On top of thi
s ice were as many feet of snow. It was all pure white, rolling in gentle undulations where the ice jams of the freeze-up had formed. North and south, as far as his eye could see, it was unbroken white, save for a dark hairline that curved and twisted from around the spruce-covered island to the south, and that curved and twisted away into the north, where it disappeared behind another spruce-covered island. –"To Build a Fire," Jack London Which detail gives the reader information about the location of the story? "The man flung a look back along the way he had come." "The Yukon lay a mile wide and hidden under three feet of ice." "It was all pure white, rolling in gentle undulations where the ice jams of the freeze-up had formed." "North and south, as far as his eye could see, it was unbroken white."
"The Yukon lay a mile wide and hidden under three feet of ice."
Explanation:
The lines "The Yukon lay a mile wide and hidden under three feet of ice." gives the reader information about the location of the story. This is because the other lines discuss only about how the place looks like.
The narrator mentions the location as Yukon which is about a mile wide and hidden under three feet of pure white ice. He further explains Yukon as a cold and strange place which was hundreds of miles away from other places.
given that the poet is saying "the sun has<em> long been set</em>" it means that the sun has not just set, but it has been set for a long while, meaning it is nighttime
As part of the rising action, it creates humor and surprise because of the confused identities.
Explanation:
In the play "Importance of being earnest" by Oscar Wilde,the assumed identities by both men created an identity crises for the woman who could not be able to confirm the man that is actually the real Earnest Worthing. This identity crises ended up creating a sense of humor in the whole story.
