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 a round and dynamic character.

Antagonist: Nature is the antagonist

Describe the setting: On a snowy mountain near Hoodoo Creek, sometime in the past.

Type of Conflict: Man vs Nature

Describe the main conflict: The main conflict is he is trapped in the forest, and he’s cold and wet.

Describe the Climax of the Story: The climax of the story is when he falls through the frozen river and gets soaked.

How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story? He changes by he gets more and more desperate as the book progresses.

Describe the relationship between the title and the theme. The title is “a mountain journey” and that is exactly what he’s on, a journey through the mountains.

 How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme? The main conflict illustrates the theme because the theme is about bad decision making and then main conflict resulted in a bad decision he made.

How does the climax help to illustrate the theme? The climax illustrates the theme by saying he thought he made the right choice skiing on the frozen river, but then he was distracted, hit a soft spot, and fell in. This is basically what killed him.

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

Simile: “That tree, like a strong and lonely woman, called to his weary body too stop.”

Metaphor: “The cold was an old man’s fingers feeling craftily through his clothes”

Personification:

“The loud wind howling in crescendo”

“Set the forest moaning beside him”

Symbol: The light behind the sun: It represented death.

Foreshadowing (give both elements): The foreshadowing was when he thought of Macdonald walking to town with two frozen feet. Then his feet froze and he had to walk(ski) to the cabin

 Irony: He said the snow was “warm and soft” when it is neither.

Imagery: “Across from him was a line of peaks thrust up against the sky, notch and jagged as old bones”

Describe the relationship between the class theme and the story. The class theme was “what does it mean to be human” and in the story he demonstrated some ways like, feeling regret and sadness, and other emotions.

Completion 5/5 Effort 3.5/5 Content 3.5/5 total 12/15