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MOUNTAIN JOURNEY

Dave Conroy is a very confident and brave old man. He was a trapper on the mountain but no matter how tired he was he kept going and that’s why he died. He pushed himself too far until he froze. His confident and physical abilities were really strong, and one may think that he’s really stupid that he continued on but he did anyways and I’m really satisfied of how strong he was. He came to the cabin and realized it was burned down; of course he was really upset and tired but he had to continue to the next cabin to get a rest. He did not reach the next cabin and just wanted a rest in the snow, he laid there with his eyes open having all those imagination and he died. He was really strong but he should have been more careful but mostly it’s his own action that made him die.

Joanna I think it was okay but it had some sentence errors. 4/6 marked by clare macgregor.

3.5/6



Short Stories - Literary Devises Title:_A Mountain Journey_

Point of View: Third person

Protagonist: Dave Conroy What type of character is the Protagonist? Round, dynamic character who

Antagonist: The wilderness, cold, hypothermia

Describe the setting <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">A mountain, snowy, about 1930- 1960, very very cold

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Type of Conflict: Man vs nature (and himself, because he pushes himself too far)

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Describe the main conflict: <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Dave Conroy is trying to survive in the wilderness against the cold, hiking to a cabin, but fell in the river and lost feeling in his hands and feet.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Describe the Climax of the Story: When Dave Conroy fell in the river and couldn’t get up. <span style="color: #ff0000; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;">If this is the climax then everything that follows is conclusion. Does this make sense?

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story? He realized that he shouldn’t have pushed himself so hard, and became less brave, and lost his confidence.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Describe the relationship between the title and the theme. <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">The title was about a mountain journey, but the story itself was about a man who went on a journey on a mountain, the journey was within himself

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 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;">The theme was a journey, and the main conflict was a man’s journey against nature and his struggle against the cold, and his body’s determination to give up.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">How does the climax help to illustrate the theme? <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">The climax helps illustrate the theme because the climax is a man’s journey to defeat the cold...

<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="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Simile: ‘That tree, like a strong and lonely woman, called to his weary body to stop.’

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Metaphor: ‘...the cold was an old man’s finger feeling craftily through his clothes.’

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Personification: ‘The cold was nibbling at him, at his nose, at his cheeks, crawling lie a wet thing across his back.’

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Symbol: The bells that Dave Conroy heard, and the green cabin he saw was heaven?

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Foreshadowing (give both elements): Dave Conroy was tired the whole time.... when he didn’t reach the cabin I knew that ultimately, Dave would die.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Irony: When Dave reached the cabin, I though that he would be okay to stay the night, and was surprised when he found it burnt.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Imagery: ‘...whose breath had hung in stubby icicles on his moustache...’ <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">‘...new snow, white and soft as fur.’ <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">‘...line of peaks thrust up against the sky, notched and jagged as if old bones, half covered with the snow, littered their crests.’

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 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;">The class theme was short story... and the story was short. Also it used many of the short story tools we learned in class. And mystery!! the class was about mystery, and this story had a lot of unknowns.

More detail. What is mysterious about this story?

<span style="color: #ff0000; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;">Completion: 5/5 Effort: 3.5/5 Content:3.5/5 total: 12/15