a+mountain+journey



**S****Short Stories - Literary Devises Title:** __**A Mountain Journey**__ **Point of View:** third person (Omniscient/Limited?)

**Protagonist:** Dave Conroy

**What type of character is the Protagonist?** dynamic,round

**Antagonist:** environment

**Describe the setting** A lonely day on a snowy mountain-side in jasper national park in the 1800s-1870s When describing a setting one should use more detail. **Type of Conflict:** man vs. environment

**Describe the main conflict:** <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Looking for ways for Dave to thaw his fingers and feet There is much more to the main conflict. <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**Describe the Climax of the Story:** <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The climax of the story was when Dave was giving his <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">final push to climb up the ridge <span style="color: #ff0000; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">When he lies down to rest.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story?** <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">He makes worse and worse decisions over the course of the story eventually leading to his demise What does he realize before he dies? <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**Describe the relationship between the title and the theme.** <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“A Mountain Journey” is a metaphor for Dave making bad decisions that lead to him traveling to his eventual demise

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme?** <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The main conflict illustrated the theme by having been lead up to by making bad and hypocritical decisions Vague! <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**How does the climax help to illustrate the theme?** <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The climax illustrates that Dave makes a lot of bad decisions <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">along his mountain journey Y <span style="color: #ff0000; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">ou keep talking about bad decisions without really giving any support from the story. <span style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**Give examples of each of the following literary terms in the story (use quotes):**

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**Simile:** <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“that tree, like a strong and lonely woman”

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**Metaphor:** <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“the rolling aplands, a white sea frozen into weary immobility”

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**Personification:** <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">”the forest moaning beside him”

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**Symbol:** <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“fire symbolized life in this story because if he <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">had made a fire he probably could have lived”

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**Foreshadowing (give both elements):** <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“the cold was an old mans fingers feeling craftily through his clothes” <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">could have foreshadowed Dave death by symbolizing the fingers of death

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**Irony:** <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">it was ironic that his fingers were too frozen to use the matches to make a fire which could have saved him

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**Imagery:** <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“thought of supper-brown curled bacon, brown bannock, rice with butter melting on it, tea red and strong as run”

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story.** <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The relationship between the class theme and the story is that it shows the power a man has over when he’ll die. This is true because if Dave would have made his camp way back in the beginning of the story like he thought he should have he probably would have lived. he wouldn’t have had to go and find the cabin he won’t have had to go and try and climb the mountain to get to MacMoran’s cabin. Completion 5/5 Effort 3/5 Content 3/5 total 11/15

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">﻿Character sketch

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Dave Conroy is the main character in the short story "A Mountain Journey". <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Not a very exciting topic sentence! <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In this tale of Dave's long harrowing journey through the mountains Dave shows many traits <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">including being determined, brave and stubborn. Dave really shows that he is determined a lot of times <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">during the course of the story. Dave shows that he is determined by passing up multiple camps <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">on his journey and pushing on. Another time he shows that he is determined is when he says <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">'He had never finished a day in the mountains without having another ten miles up his sleeve'. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dave also shows that he is brave during the story. Dave shows that he is brave by not losing <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">hope and not losing will power when he finds out that the cabin has burned down. Dave also <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">shows that he is brave when he decided to push to the cabin even though it meant <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">lots(too informal) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> of <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">suffering. Dave finaly shows that he is stubborn during the story. Throughout the story Dave acts <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">very stubborn, choosing not to stay and make a camp several times passing up important <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">opportunities to get warm and dry. Even though Dave was a bit stubborn he always regretted his <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">decisons which shows <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">he was just a bit stupid in his __decions__ not entirely stupid <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">. In this story Dave <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">is very determined, brave and stubborn. Finally throughout the story there is a resounding message <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">that it is better to be safe than sorry. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> 4.5/6

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