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Short Stories - Literary Devises Title:A Mountain Journey_

Point of View: 3rd person

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

Antagonist: nature

Describe the setting Mountain pass in late winter, midday to night, and the mood is cold and painful.

Type of Conflict:  Man verses Nature.

Describe the main conflict: Man gets soaked in freezing water and starts dieing. Then makes some bad desitions that caused him to die. These desitions were not to stop after getting soaked in freezing water and not starting a fire when he still could to dry his hands and feet so he would be able to use his matches.

Describe the Climax of the Story: Man tries to go on while freezing to death there for causing him to die from the cold and exhastion.

How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story? the protagonist realizes he should of made a fire when he still could but he waighted too long so his fingers were frozen when he tried to use his matches.

Describe the relationship between the title and the theme. The relationship between the title and the theme is that they both describe how the man is traviling through the mountians but thats where the similarties stop. The theme of the story is to think of the posibitities befor you act like to make a fire after getting wet in the river. The metaphore In the title is that the main character takes a journy to his death not just over the mountians. What is the theme? What is the metaphor in relation to the title?

How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme? The main conflict illustrates the theme by adding some more information to the theme. The information includes when the main character fell into the water and did not make a fire witch made the the theme change from what I thought at the begining of the story. The new theme was to survive not just to travel through the mountians.

How does the climax help to illustrate the theme? The climax illustates the theme by telling you the final part of the theme. The theme is to never think that you are invincable and that stuff might happen so you must think ahead to survive. The climax ilastrates this by telling you that no one is unstopable and that every one will die eventuialy but you can prevent this if you think ahead. What is the theme?

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

Simile: " ... the cold was like a old man's fingers feelingcraftily through his cloths".

Metaphor: "... white and soft as flour"

Personification: "... he could stand back on his skis and let them carry him where he wanted to go."

Symbol: Dave's matches were a symbol for liveing but he couldn't light them witch led to his death.

Foreshadowing (give both elements): "He knew as stood on the summit that he should have made camp more then two miles back in the timber and crossed the divide in the morning." (first part) "He knew what he should do he should stop to dry his hands and feet and change his socks and mittens"(part two)

Irony: An example of irony is when his friend Duncan Macdonald walked 30 miles only to get his feet amputated then he opened a cobbler's shop to make shoes he could no longer wear himself.

Imagery: An example of imagery is when Dave imagined a cabbin with a open door and it suddling changing to spring with the trickiling river and the green trees.

Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story. The class theme and the stories relationship is that they both explane how you are only human and that your life can change very easily from a single desition.

Completion 3.5/5 Effort 3.5/5 Contnet3/5 total 10/15