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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? He is a round/dynamic character.

Antagonist: Nature.

Describe the setting: It was in Alberta up in the mountains by Crimson Lake, It was winter and It was very cold, snowing and windy.

Type of Conflict: Man versus nature.

Describe the main conflict: Dave Conroy fighting against nature trying to get to a warm cabin out in the freezing wilderness.

Describe the Climax of the Story. Dave Conroy finding that the cabin was burnt down and not being able to light a fire.

How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story? From being really energetic to realizing how stupid he had been and that he might not make it.

Describe the relationship between the title and the theme. A Mountain Journey the title is what really happens in the story. Dave Conroy struggling on a mountain journey coming back from trapping in the mountains.

How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme? It shows how dangerous a mountain journey can become if you don't make the right choices about your abilities.

How does the climax help to illustrate the theme? It tells you if you made the wrong decision and shows you consequences if you did.

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

Simile: "on the hill above, curved and smooth and thin, like the tracing of pen upon the snow."

Metaphor: "He felt no sensations in them at all and his feet might have been pieces of wood strapped within his ski boots."

Personification: "whose breath had hung stubby icicles on his moustache"

Symbol: "That tree, like a strong and lonely women ," This is a symbol of rest.

Foreshadowing (give both elements): 1) " He new as he stood on the summit that he should have made camp two miles back in the timber" 2) "His fingers were frozen." "His feet probably were frozen too."

Irony: "snow melt around his wrists and flow into the top of his mittens, searing the flesh of his wrists like flame."

Imagery: "stiff, branchless trees, like a parade of skeletons climbing up the mountainside."

Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story. The class theme an the story both have to do with choices. In the story it has to do with the consequences of a bad choice. In this case it was not stopping earlier to rest, warm up and dry out therefore he froze and died.



Mountain Journey Character Sketch

David Conroy had three main traits, he was determined, ignorant and over confident which in the end led to a disaster. David Conroy was determined through out the whole story. He would not stop to camp and rest in the cold snow for one more night, but kept on going determined to reach the nearest cabin at Hoodoo creek. He did not give up until the very end, when he died. Early in the story it says, "He new 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". He ignored his own advice to stop and kept going. He keeps telling himself that he can pull through and make it too Hoodoo creek and after that, that he can make it to MacMoran's cabin. The whole time he was pushing himself beyond his abilities and in the end, he went to far and died because of the freezing temperatures.

You needed to address each character trait separately and provide evidence of each. 3.5/6