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Exposition: setting
Tom Vincent left Calumet Camp on the Yukon with a light pack on his back to prospect and hunt moose. -
Exposition: characterization
Tom Vincent had heard to never travel alone many times and laughed. -
Rising Action
Tom takes off his mittens to eat a biscuit, and his fingers begin to show the first signs of freezing. -
Rising Action
Tom begins to feel his body freezing, so he began to run briskly up the trail. -
Climax
Tom Vincent falls through the frozen creek, and struggles to get out of the freezing water. -
Falling Action
In an attempt to warm his freezing body, Tom gathers dry twigs and leaves to fuel a fire; as the fire kindled, snow fell from the trees and blotted out his fire. -
Falling Action
Tom attempts to rebuild the fire; however, his fingers are so cold that he cannot bend them, so he is forced to grab matches and twigs with the tips of his fingers. -
Falling Action
After a long struggle, Tom is able to finally light a match; however, because of the loss of movement in his fingers, he drops the ignited match in the snow. -
Falling Action
Tom is able to light a bunch of matches at one, but the matches begin burning his flesh causing him to involuntarily drop the matches in the snow, again. -
Falling Action
Tom remembers hearing of a moose camp around his location; after minutes of searching, he finds the camp deserted. -
Falling Action
Again, Tom lights a bunch of matches. This time he is prepared to burn himself in order to save his life, and he was successful in igniting a pile of leaves and twigs. -
Resolution
The fire gained steadily. -
Resolution
Tom then saves his hands by alternating sticking them in the fire and the snow. -
Resolution
Tom limps into the moose camp, and stays there for a month recovering from his ailments.