A+Mountain+Journey


 * Short Stories - Literary Devises Title: **__A Mountain Journey__


 * Point of View: **Third Person


 * Protagonist: **Dave Conroy


 * What type of character is the Protagonist? ** He is dynamic and round.


 * Antagonist: **Nature and himself


 * Describe the setting: ** It happens in the past and in the nature (Jackpine-mountains). The mood is dramatic and desperate.


 * Type of Conflict: ** Dave Conroy vs. nature / Dave Conroy vs. himself


 * Describe the main conflict: ** Dave Conroy falls into the river and instead of making a fire and sleep under a tree, he decides to drive to an cabin he remembers. But then the cabin was burned down.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Describe the Climax of the Story: ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The climax of the story is when ‍Dave Conroy came trough the cabin, which was burned 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;">‍The Protagonist changed when he comes to the cabin. He gets dessperate.


 * <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 Mountain Journey” tells us that Dave Conroys journey was exciting and dramatic and the theme is dramatic.


 * <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;">The main conflict decribes the situation before he has to make some important decisions so it helps us to illustrate the theme. How does the climax help to illustrate the theme? At the climax Dave Conroy sees the cabin burned down and makes the decision to walk through a cabin uphill.


 * <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: **‍<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“..new snow, white and soft as flour.”‍


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Metaphor: **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">‍“ the cold was an old man’s fingers...”‍

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Personification:** “That tree, like a strong and lonely woman, ...”

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> It symbolizes how cold it is in the forest.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Symbol: ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“ .‍..the cold was an old man’s fingers feeling craftily through his clothes.”


 * <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;">“The world was growing small, dying in the darkness of the sunlight.” -The darkness of the sunlight means that he will die.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Irony: ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">One example for irony is that after he fell into the river he comes to the cabin and it is burned down. Imagery: “ He was so tired that his mouth was dry with the taste of salt.”

<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**. Dave Conroy is an human. He decides, he thinks and uses his brain to make the right decisions. He failed, because he makes the wrong decisions, but humans are fallible.

<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 4/5 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Content 2.5/5 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">total 11.5/15