Question

Six humans trapped by happenstance
In black and bitter cold.
Each one possessed a stick of wood,
Or so the story's told.
Their dying fire in need of logs;
The first man held his back.
For on the faces around the fire,
He noticed one was black.

Read the lines given above and answer the question that follow:

What do the logs denote?

Answer 1

The logs symbolize each character and how they “couldn’t bring [themselves] to give the fire” their wood in order to save all of them.