A+Mountain+Journey

Short Stories - Literary Devises Title: __A Mountain Journey__

Point of View: Omniscient (Third Person)

Protagonist: Dave Conroy What type of character is the Protagonist? Round and Dynamic

Antagonist: Environment/ Himself

Describe the setting On a mountain near Jasper, Alberta, Canada around the 1920‘s. The mood is desolate, there’s no one for miles.

Type of Conflict: Man vs. Environment and Man vs Himself

Describe the main conflict: Dave Conroy is trying to get off the mountain because he’s afraid of dying from the cold but he is slowly giving in to exhaustion.

Describe the Climax of the Story: The climax of the story is when Dave Conroy takes his last attempt at trying to survive and trys to make it to Frank MacMorans cabin just before he gives up and falls asleep.

How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story? Dave Conroy doesn’t change that much, except at the end when he gives up his will to continue on any farther, which is contrary to his nature.

Describe the relationship between the title and the theme. The relationship between the title “A Mountain Journey” and the theme “Survival ” is that to take a journey over a mountain you need to survive (physically and emotionally).

How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme? <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Man does not want to relinquish his survival to nature because the conflict is man vs. nature but in this story he does <span style="color: #ff0000; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">eventually give up his survival and dies.

How does the climax help to illustrate the theme? The climax helps illustrate the theme because at the climax he falls down and gives up on himself but if he wanted to survive and if he was a surviver he would have got back up.

<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: "That tree, like a small and lonely woman" "He was beginning to feel like a ghost on an abandoned planet" "White and soft as flour"

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Metaphor: "His heart thumped and hissed" "The loud wind howling in crescendo by his ears"

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Personification: "The loud wind howling" "The cold hand of wilderness"

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Symbol: ski's, because that was his usage of transportation fire, because if he had fire then he would have warmth and if he had warmth it would have gave him the power to keep on going and surviving

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Foreshadowing (give both elements): He was so tired that his mouth was dry with the taste of salt <span style="color: #ff0000; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">What does this foreshadow?

Irony: He was a trapper, and at the end of the story he is the one who gets trapped on the mountain and die's

Imagery: "Brown curled bacon,brown bannock, rice with butter melting on it, tea red and strong as rum"

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 relationship between the class theme and the story is the if he would have had enough power then he would of kept going and he wouldn't <span style="color: #ff0000; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">have fallen down and die MORE!

<span style="color: #ff0000; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Completion 4/5 <span style="color: #ff0000; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Effort 3/5 <span style="color: #ff0000; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Content 3.5/5 <span style="color: #ff0000; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">total 10.5/15

__**Character Sketch**__
In the story "A Mountain Journey" by Howard O'Hagan, trapper Dave Conroy is set out on a journey to trap some of the animals on the mountain and get their fur. But on his way back he gets frostbite and his energy in his body is drained and he has to dig deep to try to find something to use as body energy. With a limited amount of energy Dave Conroy keeps trave ling dri ven by a gnawing fear of death. When he got to a high point he would ski down on a frozen river to a lower point because it took less energy to ski on a river because you do not have to go through the tree's. At this point of the story he is still able to think smart because skiing on a frozen is a smart idea. When he got down to the bottom of the hill he tried to look for the cabin he had stayed in last time but it had burnt down so he had to try to go to Frank MacMorans cabin but just before he gets there he thought he should just sit down, but when you have no energy sitting down in the freezing cold weather is the worst possible idea because you will never want to ever get up and so you will die and that is what eventually happened to Dave Conroy.

You don't really address the question MIke. What are Dave's main character traits? Also, there are a series on run-on sentences in this paragraph 3.5/6

4/6 You had good ideas but you didn't have a clear idea on what the assignment was. -Colin Baldwin