Mountain+Journey


 * Short Stories - Literary Devises Title:  __Mountain Journey .__ **


 * Point of View: Third person view **


 * Protagonist: Dave Conroy **


 * What type of character is the Protagonist? **
 * Round, Dynamic character **


 * Antagonist: Himself **


 * Describe the setting **
 * The story takes place in a mountain, at a cold night, isolated. **


 * Type of Conflict: Man vs. Himself **


 * Describe the main conflict: Dave Conroy is trying to get out of the mountain, so it can be considered as the “Man vs. Environment” but the story is mostly about Dave having a fight about his mistakes in his head. **


 * Describe the Climax of the Story: Dave Conroy had six hundred feet left to get to the cabin, but he decides to rest and hallucinates. **


 * How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story? **
 * Dave Conroy doesn’t see the mistakes he made at first, but around the end of the story, he realizes the mistakes he made. **


 * Describe the relationship between the title and the theme. **
 * The title “A Mountain Journey” has the theme “Realize the mistakes you made before it is too late”. In any mountains, whether it is full of snow, or just plain mountains, you will be faced with some difficult situations that you will have to think carefully. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">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;">Man vs. Himself- Dave Conroy has made a lot of mistakes but he refused to admit them to himself until his death. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; 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;">When Dave makes the decision to rest, he didn’t realize the mistakes he made yet, and finds it out the way he didn’t want; death. **


 * <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: At every step, he had broken trail and his skis had sunk a foot in the new snow, white and soft as a flour. **


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


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Personification: That tree, like a strong and lonely woman. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Symbol: MacMoran’s cabin on Terrace Creek. That cabin means safety, and Dave Conroy tries to go there but in the end, but doesn’t get to safety **


 * <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;">"He had one chance. Across the river from the Hoodoo Creek where he stood, a high pass led over into the Moose River. Frank MacMoran trapped up there and his cabin on Terrace creek" **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">By this, we can foresee that he will go to Frank's cabin. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Irony: Dave tried hard to get to the cabin, but it was burnt down. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Imagery: Conroy saw close to him, the black butts of congregated logs, a corner of a cabin, draped in white, rising lonely as a monument left by men a hundred years ago. **

**<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Completion 5/5 **  **<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Effort 4/5 **   **<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Content 4/5 **   **<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">total 13/15 **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; 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: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The class theme is "Humanity". Humans tend to 'know' that they are always right (stuborn). Dave 'knew' that he will get to safety if he kept on going, but his instincts led him to death, instead of safety. **