A: Jack London's "To Build A Fire" - “running around like a chicken with its head cut off”, the man at last “grows calm and decides to meet death with dignity . . .”
B: Stephen Crane's "Red Badge Of Courage" - "Whatever he had learned of himself was here of no avail. He was an unknown quantity."
C: Stephen Crane's "A Man Said To The Universe" - "Sir I exist!"
"However," replied the universe,
"The fact has not created in me"