In these two stories “Your Brain on Emergencies” by Jezrell Black and “To Build a Fire” by Jack London both share similarities, this is that they both prove the significance of emotional stability. In “Your Brain on Emergencies,” the author Jezrell Black is a professional in the area of brain study, and has a lot of advice that is also connected to the story …show more content…
One example of how these stories both are connected is that Jezrell Black states in her article “Calm yourself, shift your emotions. If you get mad, use that as energy.” (Black, 17). This evidence is one of the ways it connects “To Build a Fire” because in the story “To Build a Fire” it states “Sometimes it pushed itself forward and demanded to be heard, but he thrust it back and strove to think of other things.” (London, 33). Demonstrating that in “To Build a Fire” the main character is not completely calm, but he is calmer from when he was originally and was able to use the panicked emotion and convert it into usable energy to run through the forest. Another piece of evidence is “This threw him into a panic and he turned and ran up the creek bed along the old trail.”