A+Mountain+Journey



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Short Stories - Literary Devises Title: A Mountain Journey __ _ __

__Point of View: __

This story was told from a third-person point of view, and was limited omniscient __.__

__Protagonist: __ __The protagonist was named Dave Conroy. __

__What type of character is the Protagonist? __ __Dave Conoroy is a round and dynamic, because he changes over the course of the story. __

__Antagonist: __ __The antagonist is himself. __

__Describe the setting __

__The setting takes place during a frigid winter day, somewhere on the Rocky Mountains, near Jasper in the 1970s. At first, the mood of the setting is cold, impatient and tired. This soon expands to desperation and a longing to get home. __

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Type of Conflict:

Man vs. Himself

Describe the main conflict: In the beginning, all Dave Conroy wants is to get home safely. This soon turns into a fight against himself to stay alive, and to make rational decisions despite his body’s condition.

Describe the Climax of the Story:

The climax in this story is when Dave Conroy attempts to climb up to MacMoran’s cabin even though his body is in such a terrible state of desperation and pain. His mind is not fully capable of functioning properly, and Dave Conroy makes a fatal decision because of it.

How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story? <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">In the beginning of the story, Dave Conroy is just a man trying to get home after a long day of hard work. By the end of the story, he changes into a desperate, dying man, on the verge of insanity, trying to keep himself alive and safe.

<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 of this story is “A Mountain Journey”. We’ve decided that the theme of this story is survival, and making the right choices. A mountain journey is always hard and strenuous, and so is staying alive during desperate situations. During a mountain journey, it’s inevitable that you’ll encounter dangerous obstacles, and that you’ll be uncomfortable at times. During the fight for survival, it is also obvious that you’ll run into many hardships as well.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">On a mountain journey, you're also forced to make many seemingly pointless decisions, which can have an large impact on your comfort, your safety and your life. There are many parts of this story that illustrate the importance of small choices, and the huge impact they can have on your life.

<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;">Because he is on the brink of insanity, Dave Conroy isn’t capable to make rational choices. He must also fight against his body, which is slowly freezing to death, to stay alive. This illustrates the theme of “survival”. In the middle of his climb to MacMoran's cabin, Dave Conroy decides to rest for a minute. This scene illustrates the importance and cruciality of every choice you make, no matter how small it is.

<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;">We think of this story is when Dave Conroy attempts to climb up to MacMoran’s cabin. He makes the choice to attempt to make it to MacMoran’s cabin because he’s desperate to survive, but in the middle of his strenuous climb, he makes the fatal decision to take a rest, which results in his death.

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

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Simile: <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">pg 95, paragraph 3: <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">“...Stiff, branchless trees, like a parade of skeletons, climbing up the mountainside...”

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Metaphor: <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">pg 91, paragraph 1: <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">“the cold was an old man’s fingers feeling craftily through his clothes”

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Personification: <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">pg 91, paragraph 1: <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">“...whose breath had hung stubby icicles on his moustache...” <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">pg 91 paragraph 2: <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">“...stand back on his skis and let them carry him where he wished to go”

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Symbol: <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">During the conclusion of the story, Conroy sees a a white, low-roofed cottage with green trees and an open door during a hallucination. The open door on the cottage symbolizes that Conroy was close to comfort, warmth and a welcoming home.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Foreshadowing (give both elements): <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">On page 96, Conroy says to himself: “Any man who froze his hands or feet only had himself to blame”. Although his hands and feet were very cold from the icy water, they were not frozen yet, therefore, this is an example of foreshadowing because later on he freezes his hands and feet because of his mistake.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Irony: <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">On page 93, Conroy falls into a freezing river. The cold water “sears the flesh of his writs like flames”. This is an example of irony because cold water is the opposite of flames. This is verbal irony

Imagery:

pg 91, paragraph 2: "his skis had sunk a foot in the new snow, white and soft as flour" This sentence can create a more convincing image in your mind, than if the writer had used less detail.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story.

Throughout the story, the protagonist must make various difficult choices. Although he doesn't realize it at the time, all of the choices he made had an impact on whether he lived or died. For example, on the first page, he chose to not to set up camp and cross the divide in the morning, and decided to cross the divide that day. In the middle of the story, he chose not to set up camp near a tree that reminded him of comfort, and decided to keep skiing. If Dave Conroy hadn't been so impatient to get home, he might of survived, but because all he was thinking about was how fast he could get home, he made a couple irrational decisions, which ended up costing him his life. This relates to our class theme, because it talks about how even the seemingly mundane choice can have a huge impact on you and everyone around you. It also illustrates how some choices don't have an obvious right or wrong answer, and how you must follow your intuition when making choices in your day-to-day life.

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