A+Mountain+Journey

**Point of View:** Third person
 * Short Stories - Literary Devises ** **Title:** A Mountain Journey

**Protagonist:** Dave Conroy

**What type of character is the Protagonist?** Round, and dynamic

**Antagonist:** Dave Conroy

**Describe the setting:** A very snowy mountain in Northern Canada, some times in the 1700-1800’s. It is a very snowy place, and there is a frozen river, and lots of trees in the area.

**Type of Conflict:** Man vs. Wild

**Describe the main conflict:** The main conflict is that Dave Conroy, is stuck on a cold snowy mountain trying to find a cabin. He is fighting against his surroundings, and trying to get by the difficult obstacles that prevent him from surviving. He has to face the tremendously cold water of the river, and trying to make a fire with two frozen hands, and two frozen feet.

**Describe the Climax of the Story:** The climax of the story is when Dave decided to take a rest inside the mountain. He did not now that if your body is so cold, when you go to rest, the body will get in bad conditions. What happened to Dave is that, he started hallucinating, and seeing a white cabin with trees, and horse bells ringing. This seems to symbolise heaven, which can concluded that Dave Conroy was dieing.

**How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story?:** Dave Conroy, the Protagonist, changes though out the story because he constantly taking more and more risks as he tries to make his way to the cabin. The risks he takes become even riskier as the story gets closer to the end. On risk he takes, which was stopping to take a rest, ends up killing him.

**Describe the relationship between the title and the theme:** The relationship between the title, and the theme, is that he is on a “Mountain” “Journey” trying to find shelter. The theme is that you must always take risk, so if you are on some sort of journey it is necessary to take risks, because with out the risks, you will not go anywhere.

**How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme?:** The main conflict illustrates the theme because Dave Conroy is on the mountains in need of shelter. To get to where he must be, he must take risk’s along the way. He does take the risks, but they do not go well for him, and ultimately end up in the result of his death.

**How does the climax help to illustrate the theme:** The climax helps show the theme because, Dave Conroy took the risk of taking a rest, and to start hallucinate. Sure that risk he took, also took his life, but he would not have got that far if no risks were taking along the way.


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


 * Simile: ** “smooth and thin, like the tracing of a pen upon the snow.”


 * Metaphor: **"and his feet might have been pieces of wood strapped within his ski boots."


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

**Symbol:** When he sees the white cottage with trees around it, and horse bells ringing, that is a symbol for he is dieing, and going to heaven.


 * Foreshadowing (give both elements): **“He had been a fool. He should have made a fire when he fell through the ice, should have spent the night three miles up the river”

**Irony:** Dave Conroy is a trapper, but at the end of the story he, himself is the one who gets trapped in the mountain, close to death.


 * 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: ** A Mountain Journey is a prime example of Humanism. To be a human, is to face problems the best you can. In Dave's situation, he was faced with numerous obstacles and had to take risks to get passed them. In his eyes, the choices he took were the right ones. Even though these risks ended up killing him, as a human, he had to make the best decisions he could do at that time.

Completion 5/5 Effort 5/5 Content 5/5 total 15/15 Excellent!