Dr.Heidegger's+Experiment

 Short Stories - Literary Devises Title: __Dr.Heidegger’s experement__

Point of View:  1st person Protagonist: Dr.Heidengger

What type of character is the Protagonist? - Dynamic and round.

Antagonist: man vs. himself

Describe the setting -dim,old fashoned chamber,fostooned with cobwebs - 1700’s -old, dark, musty

Type of Conflict: man vs. himself

Describe the main conflict: the people believing and thinking that they were youthful when they only are in a youthful state of mind

Describe the Climax of the Story: when they realise that their still old

How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story? he gets a better realization of the experement

Describe the relationship between the title and the theme. the title Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment has to do with the theme because Dr.Heiegger is conducting a youth experiment

How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme? the main conflict of the people believing they were young again although they were only in a youthful state of mind illustrates the theme because Dr.Heidegger is conducting an experiment by getting four people to dink “water from the fountain of youth”

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How does the climax help to illustrate the theme? the climax of the for people realizing hat they were old again helps illustrate the theme by saying that the experiment of the water only lasts a short period of time before wearing off

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Give examples of each of the following literary terms in the story (use quotes):

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Simile: as black as ebony

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Metaphor: “oaken closet, with its door ajar, within which doubtfully appeared a skeleton”

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Personification: the picture of the young lady stepped one foot upon the floor

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Symbol: a rose or what was a rose though now the green leaves and crimson petals had <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">assumed a brownish hue

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Foreshadowing (give both elements): a feeble and tremulous laugh it shows how they would act and what they would be like after they drank the water

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Irony: the wife dying on the wedding day

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Imagery: a dim,old fashoned chamber,fostooned with cobwebs

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">in the story Dr.Heidegger conducts an experiment from the water of the “fountain of youth” to see how longit would last/what effects it would have on people. this describes the relationship beween the story and the class theme of eternal life by giving these people a chance to be youthful again and esencialy live forever.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 7. no, i wouldn’t want to live for 800 years because life would get boring and i think it should be as natural as possible.
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">to see if people could become youthful again and live there life like before
 * 2) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">they all made bad mistakes in there life and during the experiment they showed that once again they would make more bad decisions
 * 3) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Dr.Heidegger wouldn’t drink the water because the would rather live his life out and his friends also showed him that its lasts for only moments not years. his friends on the other hand would rather go on persuit of the fountain in florida and bath in it morning noon and evening and stay youthful forever.
 * 4) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">the narrator was probrobly an old friend who had passed away and was looking down on them and watching them
 * 5) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">youth must be taken seriously and must not be waisted, i agree but i also think there should be some time to just be yourself and have fun

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Dr.Heideggers experement

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">Great choice of metaphorical images. Please use the upper case "I" when writing sentences!

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