a+mountain+journey


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

**Point of View:** third person (Omniscient/Limited?)

**Protagonist:** Dave Conroy

**What type of character is the Protagonist?** dynamic,round

**Antagonist:** environment

**Describe the setting** A lonely day on a snowy mountain-side in jasper national park in the 1800s-1870s When describing a setting one should use more detail. **Type of Conflict:** man vs. environment

**Describe the main conflict:** Looking for ways for Dave to thaw his fingers and feet There is much more to the main conflict. **Describe the Climax of the Story:** The climax of the story was when Dave was giving his final push to climb up the ridge When he lies down to rest.

**How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story?** He makes worse and worse decisions over the course of the story eventually leading to his demise What does he realize before he dies? **Describe the relationship between the title and the theme.** “A Mountain Journey” is a metaphor for Dave making bad decisions that lead to him traveling to his eventual demise

**How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme?** The main conflict illustrated the theme by having been lead up to by making bad and hypocritical decisions Vague! **How does the climax help to illustrate the theme?** The climax illustrates that Dave makes a lot of bad decisions along his mountain journey Y ou keep talking about bad decisions without really giving any support from the story. **Give examples of each of the following literary terms in the story (use quotes):**

**Simile:** “that tree, like a strong and lonely woman”

**Metaphor:** “the rolling aplands, a white sea frozen into weary immobility”

**Personification:** ”the forest moaning beside him”

**Symbol:** “fire symbolized life in this story because if he had made a fire he probably could have lived”

**Foreshadowing (give both elements):** “the cold was an old mans fingers feeling craftily through his clothes” could have foreshadowed Dave death by symbolizing the fingers of death

**Irony:** it was ironic that his fingers were too frozen to use the matches to make a fire which could have saved him

**Imagery:** “thought of supper-brown curled bacon, brown bannock, rice with butter melting on it, tea red and strong as run”

**Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story.** The relationship between the class theme and the story is that it shows the power a man has over when he’ll die. This is true because if Dave would have made his camp way back in the beginning of the story like he thought he should have he probably would have lived. he wouldn’t have had to go and find the cabin he won’t have had to go and try and climb the mountain to get to MacMoran’s cabin. Completion 5/5 Effort 3/5 Content 3/5 total 11/15

Dave Conroy's character sketch