Question

Please, Help!! ASAP!! Which two excerpts from Jack London’s "To Build a Fire" most clearly hint at the attitude that contributes to the main character’s death? Fifty degrees below zero was to him just precisely fifty degrees below zero. That there should be anything more to it than that was a thought that never entered his head. He was used to the lack of sun. It had been days since he had seen the sun, and he knew that a few more days must pass before that cheerful orb, due south, would just peep above the sky-line and dip immediately from view. It did not lead him to meditate upon his frailty as a creature of temperature, and upon man's frailty in general, able only to live within certain narrow limits of heat and cold; and from there on it did not lead him to the conjectural field of immortality and man's place in the universe. He knew that at fifty below spittle crackled on the snow, but this spittle had crackled in the air. Undoubtedly it was colder than fifty below—how much colder he did not know. But the temperature did not matter. 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 this ice were as many feet of snow.

Answer 1

Answer:

the first and fourth.

Explanation:

Answer 2

The first excerpt that indicates an attitude that contributes to the main character's death is, "Fifty degrees below zero was to him just precisely fifty degrees below zero. That there should be anything more to it than that was a thought that had never entered his head." The fact that this character does not find fifty degrees below zero to be dangerous - that the possibility of it never even crossed his mind - indicates that he was not prepared for this, and likely does not have the survival skills or mindset necessary to survive. 

The second excerpt regarding the attitude that leads to this man's death is, "But the temperature did not matter." It is one thing not to be prepared for the intense cold, but considering humans can't survive below a certain temperature, the temperature does, in fact, matter. For him not to realize this is foolish, and makes his chances at survival slim.