Assignment task:
You may use a Realist perspective, which would stress details, human routines, and human uncertainties about life. Or, you may use a Naturalist perspective, which would emphasize humanity's struggle for survival. Naturalist thought emphasizes that nature is beyond human control. Moreover, Naturalist writing often shows nature to be working against people. A Naturalist story with nature as the narrator may view people as intruders or rebels. It is possible that you feel that neither Realism nor Naturalism fairly represents nature. If this is so, you will want to show how nature truly perceives the events in the story.
Choose one of the following options:
a. Retell "The Open Boat" from nature's perspective.
b. Retell "To Build a Fire" from nature's perspective.
This part of the project should be told in story form. Include in your introduction the title and the author of the story about which you are writing. Use a first-person narrator; from nature's perspective retell the story as nature would have seen the events unfold. Your narrator can be an animal, the wind, a tree, or nature itself telling the story. You can be creative in inventing the narrator.