London further promotes his naturalistic viewpoint of nature being the ultimate victor by using instances of struggle between the protagonist and nature. This strengthens London s argument of nature thwarting man in each of his actions. An example of such an event is when the protagonist tries to eat his lunch. He sat down on a snow-covered log to eat. The sting that followed upon the striking of his fingers against his leg ceased so quickly that he was startled.
Nature overcomes the man s actions.
The man forgets about nature s power and when acting against nature, the man is denied. Nature overcomes the man s supposed logic as well. And then it happened. No matter what type of intelligence the man may have thought he had, nature overcame his logic. Although the man took great precautions and analyzed his path, nature, the unpredictable force, conquered his attempt to bypass nature s defenses.