A+Mountain+Journey

Short Stories - Literary Devises Title: A Mountain Journey

__ Point of View: __ The story is Third Person. (Omniscient/Limited?)

__ Protagonist: __ Dave Conroy

__ What type of character is the Protagonist? __ The type of character is a mixture of Round and Static because he is developed, but his personality does not change over time.

__ Antagonist: __ The antagonist is himself.

__ Describe the setting __ __ Time: __ February 1800s __Place__: Hoodoo River, Blue Creek, and Terrace Creek.

__ Mood: __ Tense, describes everything, but is rushed with the protagonist longing to reach his destination.

__ Type of Conflict: __ Man vs Himself

__ Describe the main conflict: __ The main conflict is Dave Conroy struggling against himself of whether or not stay at in the trees or to keep going and then keep going again when he saw that the cabin is burnt down which eventually led to his death.

__ Describe the Climax of the Story: __ The climax of the story is when Dave stop before he reaches MacMoran’s cabin and rest. This is the point where no new information is given and leads to a series events that concludes the story. Since he rested, he had frostbite and started hallucinating. This eventually led to his death.

__ How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story? __ The protagonist’s change is his realization that he can not overcome nature. He overestimated his skill and endurance. Which caused death. By the time he changed to realize his mistake, it was already to late.

__ Describe the relationship between the title and the theme. __ The relationship between the title and the theme is that the title is a metaphor for a big phycological journey and the theme is to make good choices and to not overestimate yourself.

__ How does the climax help to illustrate the theme? __ The climax illustrates the theme (choices) because it shows how a bad decision (like falling asleep in the snow) can result in death.

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

__Simile__ “…smooth and thin, like the tracing of a pen upon the snow.”

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

__ Personification: __ “…that tree like a strong and lonely woman.”

__ Symbol: __ “Across the valley he saw a cottage he had never seen before – a white cottage, low roofed, with green trees beside it and an open door.”

__ Foreshadowing (give both elements): __ “A man when he was alone would travel to far. He would travel till he could travel no more, for the mere sake of traveling…” “He had been a fool. He should have made a fire when he fell through the ice, should have spent the night three miles up the river…”

__ Irony: __ “…he remembered Duncan Macdonald… who had walked thirty miles to the railroad on frozen feet to have them amputated… Macdonald had opened a cobbler’s shop in jasper to make boots he could no longer wear himself.”

__ Imagery: __ “Mist, like the shadow of universal darkness on the treeless summit, moved about him, searched every crevice of the mountain land, roamed in great billows, formed in the blindness and suffering of eternal homelessness.”

__ Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story. __ The setting greatly effects the story because one of the conflicts which takes is Man vs. Himself. For example, if he hadn`t been so eager to get to a warm bed, and kept more of his wits about him, he would have camped at the big tree, which would have supposedly have saved his life. If he had stopped at the river and warmed up his hands, he would have been able to start a fire near the burnt out cabin, which would have also spared him from death the next day. Even if he hadn`t done any of the above, and attempted to go up to MacMoran`s cabin, if he had just kept going, without stopping to rest, he would have had yet another chance to arrive home, alive.

Completion 5/5 Effort 4.5/5 Content 4.5/5 total 14/15