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 Type of Conflict:
 * 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. **
 * man vs. environment **

Describe the main conflict: Describe the Climax of the Story:
 * Looking for ways for Dave to thaw his fingers and feet **
 * There is much more to the main conflict. **
 * 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? Describe the relationship between the title and the theme.
 * He makes worse and worse decisions over the course of the story eventually leading to his demise **
 * What does he realize before he dies? **
 * “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? How does the climax help to illustrate the theme? Give examples of each of the following literary terms in the story (use quotes):
 * The main conflict illustrated the theme by having been lead up to by making bad and hypocritical decisions **
 * Vague! **
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The climax illustrates that Dave makes a lot of bad decisions **
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">along his mountain journey Y <span style="color: #ff0000; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">ou keep talking about bad decisions without really giving any support from the story. **

Simile:
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“that tree, like a strong and lonely woman” **

Metaphor:
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“the rolling aplands, a white sea frozen into weary immobility” **

Personification:
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">”the forest moaning beside him” **

Symbol:
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“fire symbolized life in this story because if he **
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">had made a fire he probably could have lived” **

Foreshadowing (give both elements):
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“the cold was an old mans fingers feeling craftily through his clothes” **
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">could have foreshadowed Dave death by symbolizing the fingers of death **

Irony:
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">it was ironic that his fingers were too frozen to use the matches to make a fire which could have saved him **

Imagery:
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“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.
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">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 **

__**A Mountian Journey-Character Sketch By Justin JM**__ Dave Con roy i n the short story A Mountain Journey by Howard O’Hagan is stu bborn, over-confident figure who thinks he can conquer the elements. His stubbornness is the first thing that gets him into trouble. “He knew … that he should have made camp two miles back”. Dave ignored what he knew was right and instead he made a stupid decision. One may call it boldness and one may call it over-confidence, but both of these traits, if you go too far like Dave Conroy will turn into stubbornness because you what to best yourself even if the stakes are high. The next thing that truly put him into a life or death situation was that he thought that he could best the elements and make to the cabin “He was less than three miles from the cabin, and the promise of its warmth and comfort would not let him stop”. One would say that that decision was stupid and they would be right. He should have stopped there and made a fire like he thought he should. Soon after Dave Conroy made his decision to head to the Hoodoo cabin after falling into the river he found out that his hands and feet where frozen and the cabin burned down. So he made he made one more decision, an over-confident one, to head up to go over the high pass and go to MacMorans cabin in Terrance Creek. Dave was so overconfident in his abilities he thought to himself “He had never finished a day in the mountains yet without another ten miles up his sleeve”. All those stupid, idiotic(find a more "formal" expression for these words) decisions and displays of overconfidence, stubbornness, and thinking that he could beat the elements were the traits that brought about his death. Nice work Justin. Good use of quotes. Watch out for the "little" mistakes. 5/6  5   Included support relevant to the text. It had some syntax errors.