a+mountain+journey

Short Stories - Literary Devises Title: a mountains journey

Point of View:

3rd persons point of veiw

Protagonist:

Dave conroy

What type of character is the Protagonist?

Dynamic and round

Antagonist:

nature and himself

Describe the setting

Cold, dark, winter, mountains, wet.

Type of Conflict: man vs. nature/ his own mind

Describe the main conflict: when he falls through the ice

Describe the Climax of the Story:

<range type="comment" id="566477">when he decides to keep going and finds the cabin is burnt down

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He starts off the story with a sense of what he should do but ignores it and by the end of the story he’s not listning to himself or his body

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Describe the relationship between the title and the theme.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The title A Mountains Journey ties into the theme because Dave Conroy is traveling through the mountains as a fur trader trapping animals.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">when he falls through the ice it helps illustrate the theme by expressing<range type="comment" id="367375"> that hes in the mountains in the winter but it must be starting to warm up.

<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?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">the climax of Dave Conroy deciding to keep going after he finds the burnt down cabin helps illustrate the theme that it is winter and he would freeze to death if he didn’t keep going.

<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: new snow, soft and white as flour

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Metaphor: his body was no more than a shape of agony

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Personification: the stunted spruce and balsam that seemed to be on there way towards him

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Symbol: the spruces braches were like arms reaching for me

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Foreshadowing ( give both elements ): <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">he knew as he stood on the summit that he should have made camp two miles back in the timber and crossed the divide in the morning.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Irony: a man was a fool to travel alone in these mountains especially alone and with a heavy pack

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Imagery:cold as an old mans fingers feeling craftily through his cloths

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; 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;">the relationship between the class theme and the story is that Dave Conroy had a huge ego. having an ego i find is part of human nature, sometimes as humans we try to do the impossible and i found that so did Dave Conroy witch ultimately resulted in his death.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Completion 5/5 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Effort 3.5/5 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Content 3.5/5

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">total 12/15