Questions

 Short Stories - Literary Devises Title: A Mountain Journey - Point of View: The point of view is Third person, The author is telling the story, and says things like "Dave Conroy, blah blah blah." 

-Protagonist: The protagonist of the story is Dave Conroy, he is the one the author is describing.

-What type of character is the Protagonist? Dave was a static character, because he kept on making the wrong choices, which lead to his death. Also, he was a flat character, because he had a few traits. The only changes i saw were when he went from being persuverant, to giving up and resting. He does come to a realization at the end; therefore, he is dynamic.

-Antagonist: The antagonist in the story was nature, because throughout the whole story Dave is trying to survive against nature. - Man vs. Nature.

-Describe the setting The setting took place in steep, snowy mountains near Hoodoo Creek, and the time it took place was in between the late 1800s and early 1900s. The story probably took place during these times, because of the use of Dave needing to go to the railroad, the use of horses, bells, and Daves equipment. The overall mood of the story was ironic, because at first Dave is saying how stupid people are for traveling in the mountains alone, how people always go father than they should, and freezing themselfs, in the end Dave ends up doing exactly that. Mood?

-Type of Conflict: It was both internal and external, because he was thinking of what he should do and weighed the options internally. But externally he was fighting the freezing cold, etc. (Man vs. Nature)

- Describe the main conflict: The main conflict in this story like I said, is man vs. nature, because he was trying to survive

- Describe the Climax of the Story:

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">The climax of the story is when Dave falls into the river, because he could've done something after he fell in, but wasn't very prudent didn't make a fire, and then he froze to death, by resting. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">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? <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">The protagonist doesn't really change through this story, his traits stay the same, in the beginning he is just trying to survive, and in the end as well. He does make some bad desicions in the middle, but that doesn't affect his personallity. The only change I could clearly see, was that he went from perseverant to exhausted, and wanting to give up and sleep. He was getting tired in the middle as well i could tell, which caused some of the catastrophic choices.

- <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">Describe the relationship between the title and the theme.

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">The relationship between the title and theme are that they go together fairly well. The theme is wilderness survival, the title is a mountain journey, he is going on a journey in the mountains surviving, they go together. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">What is the __metaphor__ between the title and the theme?

How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme? <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Well, the main conflict goes a lot with the the theme, because the main conflict is man vs. nature, and the theme is all about wilderness and suvival, so they both fit together.

-How does the climax help to illustrate the theme?The climax of the story, where Dave falls into the river and doesn't do anything, shows the difficulty of wilderness survival.It shows that you need to be very strong willed, and quick acting.

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

-Simile: <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Here are some examples of Similes; "At every step too, he had broken trail and his skis had sunk a foot in the new snow, white and soft as flour." -"A beggared moon from behind a grey rack of clouds wandered in the sky above the earth's desolation and in its lights he preceived on the slope above him, where the fire had leaped from the cabin, stiff, branchless trees, like a parade of skeletons climbing up the mountainside. -"They were cold and white and unresponsive as a dead man's.

-Metaphor: ﻿"The cold was an old mans fingers feeling craftifly through his clothes." -Personification: "Set the forest moaning beside him." "That tree, like a strong and lonely woman, called to his weary body to stop." "With a snow covered tree, sweating in the heat of the fire." "His heart thumped, and hissed in his breast." - <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">Symbols: <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">"The world growing small, dying slowly in the darkness of the sunlight.' "Macdonald frowned and shook his head, and spoke some words Conroy could not <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">What are these symbols for? ie What do they represent? Foreshadowing (give both elements): "his mouth was dry, with the taste of salt." "He was tired than he had any right to be""On his shoulders he had lifted upwards with him at every step his pack of food for another five days on the trail, his blankets, axe, and fifty pounds of fur for the market"

-Irony: ﻿The story was very ironic in more ways than one. In the wording below the title it says he has a gnawing fear of death, he ends up dying. He also talks aboutthe men who froze their limbs, and made bad choices, he also ended up doing that.

Imagery: <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">"Across the valley he saw a cottage he had never seen before- a white cottage, low-roofed, with green trees beside it and an open door." "Conroy saw close to him the black butts of congregated logs, a corner of the cabin draped in white, rising lonely as a monument left by men a hundred years ago"

Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story. ??????? Completion 4/5 Effort 4/5 Content 3.5/5 total 11.5

=Character Sketch= =﻿= =﻿= In the story "A Mountain Journey," Dave Conroy is a confident, foolish, and courageous character. These three traits are what led him to wrong choices, pain, and even the result of death. Confidence is something good to have, but when someone is over confident it can result into something very bad to something surrounding them, or even them. In Dave Conroy’s case, his confidence led him to his cold, painless death. He had thought that skiing down the river would be faster than skiing down the deep snowy slope, but his confidence was wrong, "And as he looked back, while still sliding forward with the momentum of his descent, the ice broke beneath him." If he weren’t so confident that the river would get him to the cabin faster, he would never had fallen into the river, or risked his life. Another important trait of Dave Conroy was his foolishness. "He knew what he should do. He should stop, make a fire, dry his hands and feet, change his socks and mittens. But it was late. It would mean siwashing for another night underneath a tree." If Dave had actually stopped and done all of those, he wouldn’t have been freezing or numb, and would have been able to continue on even further in the night to his destination. But that wasn’t the only example of how foolish he was, "He gathered his muscles together, summoned his strength that was slipping from him like a loosened garment. Then he lay back for another moment, to rest." When he had woken up there was to much weight from the snow lying on top of him, and he couldn’t even move, "He tried to rise, but his arms stayed still at his side. Snow had drifted over them. A weight was on them that he could not lift. They were heavy with the burden of their own inertia. Snow like a blanket covered his body and the wind blew snow against his face." When Dave stopped to rest, his whole body temperature had dropped, and heartbeat had slowed down. If Dave had chosen to change his wet clothes after falling into the river, and not stopping to rest, he would have made it to the cabin in no time. The last, but most important trait of Dave Conroy was that he was extremely courageous. One of the first courageous things he had done in the story was when he decided to ski on top of the river instead of the snowy mountain, because he thought the snow was less deep and powdery. Another courageous move he had made was when he stopped to rest for the day because he thought he was fairly close to the MacMoran’s cabin. But the most courageous thing Dave had done in the story was that he did stop to change his wet socks and mittens after he’d fallen into the shallow river. Most people would have stopped to change them, and would have built a warm, bright, crackling fire to unfreeze their cold, numb fingers and toes. If Dave hadn’t been so confident, foolish, or courageous, he may have actually made it to the MacMoran’s cabin safe and sound, instead of falling into a deep sleep, on a cold, snowy mountain.

Carlie's paragraph; 5.0, It shows examples, good conclusion, introduction, not quite a six, because it reveals too much plot. Marked by Boo Bear LOL (Rachelle)