Moutain+Journey+Short+story

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Short Stories - Literary Devises Title:A Moutain Journey__

Point of View: third person (Omniscient/Limited)

Protagonist: Dave Conroy What type of character is the Protagonist? Round character dynamic

Antagonist: environment

Describe the setting: Atmosphere anticipation determined, tired, in a hurry Time: February late afternoon Time Period? Location: Montana USA You need more details when asked to **__describe__** the setting.

Type of Conflict: man vs. environment/nature

Describe the main conflict: Dave was against time and nature for survival

Describe the Climax of the Story: finds out the cabin was burned I f this is the climax then everything that follows is conclusion. Does that make sense?

How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story? Changes his plans for staying another night in the woods What realization does he make before he dies?

Describe the relationship between the title and the theme. With a moutain journey, it’s difficult and complicated to survive in the moutains What is the metaphor?

How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme? He has no control over his hands and feet, making it very difficult to survive in the mountains.

How does the climax help to illustrate the theme? At that point he was not wanting to take more time in his trip, but the climax changed the story to a fight for survival.

Give examples of each of the following literary terms in the story (use quotes):

Simile: the new snow, white and soft as flour.

Metaphor: the cold was an old man’s fingers feeling craftily through his clothes

Personification: breath had hung stubby icicles on his moustache.

Symbol: he was beginning to feel like a ghost on an abandoned planet The ghost symbolizes isolation, loneliness

Foreshadowing (give both elements): he knew what he should do. He should stop, make a fire, dry his hands and feet, change his socks and mittens. Later in the story, when he tries to light a fire, his hands are frozen from the water, and he can’t open the match safe.

Irony: He always had that moutain travel is not dangerous if a man knew how to take care of himself. Any man who froze his hands or feet only had himself to blame… -Dave Conroy Dave said this himself, but he ended up freezing his hands and feet and wasn’t able to light a fire which leaded to his eventual death.

Imagery: he saw the snow melt around his wrist and flow into the top of his mittens, searing the flesh of his wrists like flame.

Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story. the class theme is power. In a story all outcomes depend on the power of the protagonist or the antagonist. In this story, the environment (antagonist) has power over Dave Conroy physically, he's unable to move his hands because of the cold. (environment) He has mental power over his body, to continue to travel to the cabin instead of staying the night. Unfortunately, the environment overpowers him, although mostly from his own decisions, he freezes to death. Completion 5/5 Effort 3.5/5 Content 3/5 total 11.5/15