Naturalist theory suggests that human behaviour is determined, and we are therefore not to be held responsible for our actions In jack London in ‘To Build a Fire’ successfully avoid conveying moral judgement on the characters they portray?

As for "To build a Fire" London maintains a detached tone to what the man is experiencing. It is a tone that nature would take, void of the emotional and sentimental attachments of people. Things simply just are, mistakes in nature exact a price regardless of species. We judge the man through the lens of our human experience while the natural world simply watches the world unfold with no particular malice or sympathy.