A+Mountain+Journey

Point of View:

__Third person__

Protagonist:

__Dave Conroy__

What type of character is the Protagonist?

__Round, Dynamic__

Antagonist:

__Environment__

Describe the setting: __The story takes place in Jasper National Park, Alberta. The setting is a dense mountain range, with many hills and forests. The mood is determination, as the main character will go through everything to get where he wants to go. The story takes place in the mid 19th centuary.__

Type of Conflict:

__Man vs, Environment__

Describe the main conflict:

__The main conflict is between Dave Conroy and the environment. This is because he is attempting to get to his cabin but he is stopped by nature (falling in a river, freezing cold nights).__

Describe the Climax of the Story:

__The climax of the story is when he stops to rest on his way to find his friend`s cabin. It is implyed that he dies during his rest in the snow.__

How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story?

__In the beginning of the story, Conroy is just a trapper that is trying to get back to his cabin. As the story unfolds, he becomes more desperate to find shelter, while doing so stats to take more risks, and makes harsher disicions.__

Describe the relationship between the title and the theme.

__The title relates to the theme because the theme is survival and the stuggles Dave tried to overcome to survive. The title "A Mountain Journey" relates to this because the title may mean a difficult journey. Therefore, the title hints at a difficult journey and the theme relates to this because it is the struggle to survive.__

How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme?

__The main conflict (which is man vs. nature) illustrates the theme, survival, because he is trying to survive nature`s harsh conditions.__

How does the climax help to illustrate the theme?

__The climax helps illustrate the theme because he is trying to desperately find shelter to survive in the climax and the theme is survival.__

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

__Simile:__ __"Soft and white as flour"__

Metaphor:

__"The cold was an old mans fingers feeling crafyily through his clothes"__

Personification:

__"...heart thumped and hissed"__

Symbol: __When Conroy decides to stop for a moment and take a rest, this symbolizes that he has given up and has decided to give into the environment.__

Foreshadowing (give both elements): __When he passed a nice bare patch of dirt under a spruce tree he said he should’ve stopped. The results of not doing this led to fatigue, frostbite, and lack of judgement. Also, with that being said, we can assume that there aren’t very many places to rest in the mountains.__

Irony:

__Being a trapper, he takes from nature without taking back. In the end, it turns out that nature decided to take something from him.__

Imagery:

__"The pain in his shoulders was the only reality of his existence and his body was no more than the shape of agony and effort crawling through the twilight, across the long shadows of spruce trees laid upon the snow."__

Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story. __There are many relationships between the class theme and the story. For example, at the starting of the story he feels very powerful and almost cocky, but as he travels on he regrets his decisions and feels powerless to nature. We believe that Dave Conroy is a very confident and has a powerful will because he did not give up, even when his hands and feet were numb or he discovered his cabin had burnt down.__ Completion: 4/5 Effort 4/5 Content4/5 total 12/15 Character Sketch Paragraph

Dave Conroy is a trapper, trapping the Rocky Mountains trying to find his way to warmth. He has many different traits, which all develop throughout the story. His confidence is strong through the course of the story and even remarks how "//...mountain travel was not dangerous if a man knew how to take care of himself//". Dave is very unwise. The numerous decisions made on his journey, like continuing to travel after freezing, walkign past opperatunites to rest or build fire for warmth, tragicaly led him to his death. One trait stayed true through the entire story; Dave Conroy was immensely determined. //"He had never finished a day in the mountains yet without another ten miles up his sleeve".// This determination is what motovated him to continue after he had fell through the ice, leaving him cold and tired, and continued in search of the cabin.(run-on) When he couldn't move his fingers, he continued to travelling uphill to find MacMoran. Confident, stupidity, and determined are three words that strongly describe Dave Conroy from his mountain journey, to his tragic death. Well done. 4.5/6 More inferences based on content to support your opinions will strengthen your argument.