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? Round, dynamic character who

Antagonist: The wilderness, cold, hypothermia

Describe the setting A mountain, snowy, about 1930- 1960, very very cold

Type of Conflict: Man vs nature (and himself, because he pushes himself too far)

Describe the main conflict: Dave Conroy is trying to survive in the wilderness against the cold, hiking to a cabin, but fell in the river and lost feeling in his hands and feet.

Describe the Climax of the Story: When Dave Conroy fell in the river and couldn’t get up. If this is the climax then everything that follows is conclusion. Does this make sense?

 How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story? He realized that he shouldn’t have pushed himself so hard, and became less brave, and lost his confidence.

Describe the relationship between the title and the theme. The title was about a mountain journey, but the story itself was about a man who went on a journey on a mountain, the journey was within himself

How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme? The theme was a journey, and the main conflict was a man’s journey against nature and his struggle against the cold, and his body’s determination to give up.

How does the climax help to illustrate the theme? The climax helps illustrate the theme because the climax is a man’s journey to defeat the cold...

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

Simile: ‘That tree, like a strong and lonely woman, called to his weary body to stop.’

Metaphor: ‘...the cold was an old man’s finger feeling craftily through his clothes.’

Personification: ‘The cold was nibbling at him, at his nose, at his cheeks, crawling lie a wet thing across his back.’

Symbol: The bells that Dave Conroy heard, and the green cabin he saw was heaven?

Foreshadowing (give both elements): Dave Conroy was tired the whole time.... when he didn’t reach the cabin I knew that ultimately, Dave would die.

Irony: When Dave reached the cabin, I though that he would be okay to stay the night, and was surprised when he found it burnt.

Imagery: ‘...whose breath had hung in stubby icicles on his moustache...’ ‘...new snow, white and soft as fur.’ ‘...line of peaks thrust up against the sky, notched and jagged as if old bones, half covered with the snow, littered their crests.’

Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story. The class theme was short story... and the story was short. Also it used many of the short story tools we learned in class. And mystery!! the class was about mystery, and this story had a lot of unknowns.

More detail. What is mysterious about this story?

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