A+Mountain+Journey

Short Stories - Literary Devises Title:_A Mountain Journey_

Point of View: Third Person, Omniscient

Protagonist: Dave Conroy What type of character is the Protagonist? Dynamic and...

Antagonist: Nature

Describe the setting 1900's, Up in the highlands near the Arctic, very gloomy and cold

Type of Conflict: Man versus Nature

Describe the main conflict: Dave Conroy is trying to get to the cabin but nature is slowing him down and causing him pain

Describe the Climax of the Story: He decided to lay for a rest, so he lied down and got hypothermia.

How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story? He gets frostbite on his hands and feet. What realization does he make before he dies?

Describe the relationship between the title and the theme. The theme of the story is adventure and survival and "Journey" in "A Mountain Journey" is similar to adventure and survival. What internal journey does Conroy take?

How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme? As he goes on to finding the Hoodoo cabin, he faces hypothermia and frostbite and tries to use "survival" to help him stay alive on his "adventure".

How does the climax help to illustrate the theme? As he lies down for a rest and dies, it helps us imagine the tough adventure he had and the survival knowledge he ignored. The fact he ignored his own instincts is key to the theme.

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." "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." "He was beginning to feel like a ghost on an abandoned planet and he wanted to see the works of man about him once again.

Metaphor: "__The cold was an old man's fingers__ feeling craftily through his clothes."

Personification: "He stood in the middle of the clearing where the cabin had been, hemmed about by swaying pine trees, pine trees that sway as the wind __sighed__ through them."

Symbol: "__A few log remains__." They literally mean a fire has happened but to Dave Conroy it means another 18miles for a proper resting spot which is really frustrating.

Foreshadowing (give both elements): "He saw the snow melt around his wrists and flow into the top of his mittens, searing the flesh of his wrists like flame."

He kept on going and later his hands were frozen.

"He held it there before him, at arm's length, a round tin cylinder that contained the red flame and blustering smoke of fire.His right thumb, still moving to his command, pressed it into his palm, but his fingers would not catch it, would not twist it open. They would not bring the match-safe to him. They held it from him. If they would only bend, those fingers. If they would understand when he spoke to them."

After his failure to make a fire. It looks like there's no hope and he's going to die in the wilderness.

Irony: "Because he could trap no more, Macdonald had opened a cobbler's shop in Jasper to make boots he could no longer wear himself, and Conroy saw him now at his bench, laughing, not saying anything at all, just laughing, his red face wrinkled as he nodded his heavy bald head and laughed."

The irony is that since Macdonald lost his feet, he could no longer trap, therefore, he decided to open a shop that sold __boots__.

Imagery: "Snow, flung up by the prow of his skis, pattered lightly against his thighs and as he hummed downwards he though of supper- __brown curled bacon, brown bannock, rice with butter melting on it, tea red and strong as rum."__

Just of the thought of bacon makes me hungry. Me too!

Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story. The story info was straight up front so there really wasn't much "Mystery." Since the story is in third-person, and it's omniscient. There was a little bit of Mystery when Dave Conroy reached the clearing where the Hoodoo Cabin was, but the cabin was burnt down. The story didn't give you much thought about it but if you think about it. Why would the cabin be burnt down? Who burnt it down? Was it sabotage? All these questions came up. But the story isn't really about "Mystery" if it was, it would of made you think about these questions and gave you little details.

Good Work Andy. Completion 5/5 Effort 5/5 Content3.5/5 total:13.5/15

foolish determined and rushed =Character Sketch Assignment=

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Dave Conroy has some traits that one would say lead him to his death. Dave Conroy was a foolish man for not making camp after he got his hands and feet wet, "He wriggled his toes in his boots. They were cold, but perhaps, he thought, not wet. Only his ankles and heels seem wet. If he hurried he could make it...but his fingers already were numbed from the cold." One would say that was the only trait that lead him to death. Another trait that Dave Conroy had was that he was a determined man. With determination he continued on to the Hoodoo Cabin without camping under a tree with his hands and feet wet "He was less than three miles from the cabin, and the promise of its warmth and comfort would not let him stop." He was also a rushed man. He wanted to get to the cabin as soon as possible by skiing down the river and not going through the trees, "...dropped off a cut bank to the frozen river..." Since he went down the river he fell into the water which ended up killing him in the end. Without these three traits, Dave Conroy would of made it to the Blue Creek Cabin alive.

I don't think "rushed" is a character trait. Some good ideas though and support. 4.5/6

4/6 Christopher Yu and Andy Yang I believe that I deserve a 4 because I supported my ideas with relevant quotes from them story.