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 * Short Stories - Literary Devises Title: A Mountain Journey **
 *  Point of View: Third person **


 *  Protagonist: Dave Conroy **
 *  What type of character is the Protagonist? Round and dynamic **


 *  Antagonist:The Environment **


 *  Describe the setting: In the past, winter time, in the wilderness and the mood, sombre. **


 *  Type of Conflict: Man vs. Environment **


 * Describe the main conflict: **
 *  Man vs. Environment: Throughout the whole story Conroy was battling the elements, the cold, bucking a fresh fall of snow, thin ice, freezing water and even fire, when he finds that the cabin had been in a fire. **


 * Describe the Climax of the Story: **
 *  When he started to hallucinate, hearing horse bells, a streaming river over mossy boulders and seeing a cottage. All leading up to the climax of his death. **


 * How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story? **
 *  He started to realize his ego and knowledge was becoming his downfall. His stubbornness to reach his goal, and have story to tell, vs. his common sense to stop and survive, soon became his reality and he knew this towards the end. **


 * Describe the relationship between the title and the theme. **
 *  The theme is Dave Conroy, a trapper, trapping in the mountains and the story of his journey that’s a reason the title is A Mountain Journey. **


 * How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme? **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> The main conflict illustrates the theme because the conflict is the environment the theme takes place in which is the mountains. **


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How does the climax help to illustrate the theme? **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The climax illustrates the theme because his death is part of his journey through the mountains. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Give examples of each of the following literary terms in the story (use quotes): **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Simile: “The new snow, white and soft as flour.” **


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Metaphor <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: “The snow-covered tree sweating in the heat of his fire.'' **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Personification: “The cold was an old man’s fingers feeling craftily through his clothes.” **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Symbol: The light behind the Sun, representing death **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Foreshadowing (give both elements): **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“A man was a fool to travel alone in the mountains, especially with a heavy pack, bucking fresh fall of snow. A man a lone would travel till he could travel no more, for the mere sake of traveling.” Conroy, a seasoned trapper, knew the consequences of what harsh weather and misfortunes could do to a person yet he went against his better judgements and his demise was inevitable. **


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Irony: **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Even with all of Conroy’s knowledge he knew he was past the point of no return.”He gathered his muscles together, summoned the strength that was slipping away from him like a loosened garment. Then lay back for another moment, to rest.” **


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Imagery:”Mist, like the shadow of the 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 the eternal homelessness.” **


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story. **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Humanity can’t survive if people don’t make the right decisions. Dave Conroy made some bad choices that ultimately lead to his death. **

Qualities, good or bad, are important to being a human. Having emotions, discovering and reasoning, imagining or being creative and communicating are also important to being an individual. All these qualities though can or do have a negative side. Emotions can range from love to hate, empathy to selfishness and really any other emotions you could think of. Why is discovery and reasoning a quality that makes someone an individual? Because if someone were to find something they would have to reason what to do with their discovery. Also the discovery <range type="comment" id="818604">its self might be bad, such as a deadly bacteria or something good like a cure for cancer. Being imaginative or creative in my opinion has nothing negative about it, <range type="comment" id="513269">you're thoughts are what you make them. Talking on the phone, texting, writing a letter or <range type="comment" id="56812">how ever you communicate with people is with a language, on a certain topic, a tone of voice and a choice of words. For communication to be thought of as negative, I believe the tone of voice and choice of words play an essential role for someone to take communicating as negative, gossip or rumours are good examples. Even though humans have an infinite amount of qualities all have a positive and negative side to them.

An excellent response. Good use of examples to support your ideas. 5.5/6

Reasoning or thinking can lead to great idea's, experiences or discoveries.