A+Mountain+Journey

 Short Stories - Literary Devises Title:  Point of View: The story is Third Person.  (Omniscient/Limited?) Protagonist: Dave Conroy

What type of character is the Protagonist?

 The type of character is a mixture of Round and Dynamic because he is developed and his personality change over time.

 Antagonist: The antagonist himself.

 Describe the setting

 Time: February 1800s Place: Hoodoo River, Blue Creek, and Terrace Creek.

 Mood: Tense, describes everything, but is rushed with the protagonist longing to reach his destination.

 Type of Conflict: Man vs Himself Describe the main conflict:  The main conflict is Dave Conroy struggling against himself of wether or not stay at in the trees or to keep going and then keep going again when he saw that the cabin is burnt down which eventually led to his death.

Describe the Climax of the Story:The climax of the story is when Dave stop before he reaches MacMoran’s cabin and rest. This is the point where no new information is given and leads to a series events that concludes the story. Since he rested, he had frostbite and started hallucinating. This eventually led to his death.

How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story?

 The protagonist’s change is his realization that he can not overcome nature. He overestimated his skill and endurance. Which caused death. By the time he changed to realize his mistake, it was already to late.

 Describe the relationship between the title and the theme. The relationship between the title and the theme is that the title is a metaphor for a big phycological journey and the theme is to make good choices and to not overestimate yourself.

 How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme? The main conflict of Dave deciding to keep going helped to illustrate the theme because Dave had a conflict with himself over making the right choices and the theme was overestimation and wrong choices in nature.

 How does the climax help to illustrate the theme? The climax helped to illustrate the theme because Dave rested and slept and wakes up realizing that he has not overcome nature. By the time he regained awoke it was to late for him to change his destiny and has to accept that his struggle with himself of overcoming nature was doomed.

<span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px;"> Give examples of each of the the following literary terms in the story (use quotes): <span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px;"> Simile: "Like a parade of skeletons climbing up the mountainside." "Rising lonely as a monument left b y men a hundred years ago."

<span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px;"> Metaphor: "A mountain Journey" "Knowing that speed was his one means of escape from the cold hand of wilderness."

<span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px;"> Personification: "For the first time the long day he could stand back on his skis and let them carry him where he wished to go." "The cold was an old man's fingers feeling craftily through his clothes."

<span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px;"> Symbol: The open door at the end of the story is a symbol for wanting him to come in and him being welcomed. It represents that he has made it and that people are inside waiting for him to come in. Foreshadowing (give both elements): Foreshadowing in this story starts when it says, "He knew he should have made camp two miles back in the timber and crossed divide in the morning." Also, "He would travel till he travel no more, fore the mere sake of traveling, when a day or two's delay in the time of his arrival made no difference at all." From this we can gather that he is believes that he can overcome himself and the environment and that it will lead to his downfall. Later, we find out that this does lead to his downfall and that he dies because of it.

<span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px;"> Irony: Situational irony. Dave is a proffesional trapper and has survived many days in alone in survival yet in some reason, he decides to lie down risking freezing to death, when he is only 600 feet left until he got to the cabin. This is like a heart surgen dying of a heart attack. <span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px;"> Imagery: "Mist, like the shadow of 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 eternal homelessness." <span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px;"> Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story. <span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px;"> The class theme and the story are <span style="color: #ff0000; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">very closely related and have a relationship connected between them. The class theme is choices and the story's theme is overestimation and making foolish choices based on overconfidence. These two are <span style="color: #ff0000; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">very related because choices are everywhere and in the story, Dave makes many choices. An example of a choice is when Dave leaves for Terrace Creek when he should have just stayed. Another reason why these are related is because there are good and bad choices and in the story Dave is overconfident that he can beat <span style="color: #ff0000; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">the nature so he kept going <span style="color: #ff0000; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">when should have made a fire to dry himself. The last main reason is that <span style="color: #ff0000; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">during critical time you have to stop and think about your choice, but in the story, Dave didn't do that and rested which got him killed. Choices are part of everyday life and overestimation is all part of it. Overestimation can lead to a bad choice and A Mountain Journey is a example of what happens when someone struggles with themself and overestimates foolish choices. Completion 5/5 Effort 4.5/5 Content 4.5/5 total 14/15