A Little Spark for all of Humanity

What is a fire? Is it just light? Is it just warmth?

With this post I want to go back to something we discussed in class, and it all goes back to the symbol of fire. Going all the way back to Greek mythology, fire made part of the God’s knowledge that they wanted to keep from the humans. But, the titan Prometheus stole it from Zeus and gave it to the humans, getting terribly punished by Zeus for his misdeed.

 In history, the caveman were people who lived in cage and in very animalistic ways. Cavemen is the colloquial name for Neanderthal. This primitive forms of people were very strong and quite aggressive. But, they still discovered fire. Nobody really knows how they did it, even thou there are a lot of theories, we only know that the first recordings o fire is in the caveman's time and that it's after this fire recording that the caveman began to present considerable evolution in their animal like manner.

 From Greek Mythology to thousand year old men, fire reached the literary arts. particularly, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, a book were the whole world has turned to ash a father and his son remain walking the Earth looking for a way of survival. Every night this father and his son light a fire in order too fight the cold and stay alive. If, for some reason, they failed to light a fire in a very cold night, they would probably die. For them, the fire is a symbol of hope and survival they are very lucky to have.