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

**Describe the setting**:

The mood can be described as lonely and desperate.
**Type of Conflict**: Man vs. Environment

**Describe the main conflict**:

He suffers and even risks his life fighting against the envrionment.
**Describe the Climax of the story.** The climax takes place when he finds the cabin burnt down, because no new major information is given after that scene.
 * How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story?**

He also becomes more determined to reach his destination.
**Describe the relationship between the title and the theme.** The theme of the story is adventure . The title connects with the theme because by reading the title, you can realize that the story is going to be about an adventure. Even the word "jouney" is part of the title and journey is a very similar word to adventure.

**How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme?** As Dave Conroy goes on the journey on the mountain, he has to fight against the environement. The environment is making his adventure a serious chanllenge by getting in his ways and making the path dangerous for him to go on.

**How does the climax help to illustrate the theme?** When he finds the burnt down cabin, he becomes desperate and this makes his adventure even tougher. With his frozen hands and feet, he has nowhere to rest or get aid. He can not stop and has to keep going on his adventure in order to survive.


 * Give examples of each of the the following literary terms in the story (use quotes):**

**Simile**: "That tree, like a strong and lonely woman"

**Metapho**r:"sunlight was its shadow"

**Personification**: "If he slept, the fire slept with him."

**Symbol**:

The open door of the cottage symbolizes that MacMoran is waiting for him to come and is welcoming him.
**Foreshadowing (give both elements):** When he passed by the tree that was perfect for him to spend his night on, it seemed as if the author was trying to foreshadow some accident that would make Dave Conroy regret leaving the tree behind. As I thought would happen, Dave Conroy falls in to the water freezes his hands with no place to sleep. He had missed his perfect place to spend the night.

**Irony:** "the pale cold sun was high in the sky" This is an irony because sun is supposed to be a source of warmth and be bright, not something that is cold and pale.

**Imagery:** "heard water tinkling over pebbles, mumuring, protesting, running downhill" This is an imagery of sound of running water under the frozen river.


 * Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story.**

Completion 5/5
Effort 4/5 Content 4/5 total 13/15