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 character and...

Antagonist: nature

Describe the setting: On a snowy mountain time?Mood?

Type of Conflict: Man vs. enviroment

Describe the main conflict: Dave conroy is trying to get to the lodge but it is burnt down.

Describe the Climax of the Story: When Dave Conroy get to the lodge but it is burnt down. 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 changed by realizing he had to try his hardest to go to the lodge. What does he realize at the end of the story, before he dies?

Describe the relationship between the title and the theme.: theme shock- The theme and the tittle have a relationship by Dave Conroy having a shock on his mountain journey. I do not think the theme of "Shock" is the __main__ idea in this story.

How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme?: it illustrates the main conflict by Dave Conroy having a shock when he sees that the lodge in burnt down

How does the climax help to illustrate the theme?: It helps it by having Dave Conroy not know about the lodge being burnt down

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Give examples of each of the the following literary terms in the story (use quotes):

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"> Simile:dave conroys hands were as cold "as" ice

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"> Metaphor:dave conroys hands were really cold use a quote

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"> Personification: dave conroy was as cold as a blizzard

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"> Symbol: the trees swaying ? ? what does this represent?

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"> Foreshadowing (give both elements): the lodge was burnt down. shows that something bad or good is gonna happen because of that

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"> Irony: it was ironic that the lodge was burnt down Why? Explain.

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"> Imagery: the ice cracked beneath his feet

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"> Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story. the class theme is mystery and it relates to the story by how dave conroy's plans didnt work out so now its a mystery to what he is gonna do. More

Completion: 4/5 Effort: 2.5/5 Content: 2/5 total 8.5/15

Dave Conroy is a very life risking and hard working person.He has traveled along way to go to the woods, so that he can collect animal fur and sell them to make money. He was very brave to travel by himself in such a cold and snowy forest. He was very life risking because he walked across the icey river that he knew was frozen, but then while he was skiing, the skii poles made a crack in the ice which made him drown. He fought till the very end, even though he knew he was going to die.