A+Mountain+Journey

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Describe the setting: The story takes in the winter in Blue Creek, Ohio. It is sometime between the 1950's to 1980's. The feeling is of the short story is very relaxed but lonely, multiple tense moments,but overall still very calm. ======

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How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story? Throughout the course of the story, Conroy becomes more determined to reach his destination and in his dying moments he realizes in fact that he is an idiot. He also develops a sense of confidence near the end. ======

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How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme?: The main conflict (Man vs himself vs Enviroment) helps to illustrate the story, by describing the protagonist arguing with himself whether to continue on, or rest the night. In the end, he chooses to continue his journey, and it ends up being a horrible conflict between himself and the environment. The theme of man vs environment illustrates the end of the story by presenting the theme of death. ======

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How does the climax help to illustrate the theme?: The climax, the point in the story when Conroy starts to freeze, helps to illustrate the theme of death. When his fingers freeze, he decides they are only numb, and he continues on his journey to find shelter. In the end, they are frozen, as well as his feet. From then on, he decides to rest, eventually freezing to the point of his death. ======

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Foreshadowing (give both elements): Beginning: In the beginning of the story, icicles are growing on his facial hair. This gives us an idea about his fate, and how his fingers freeze. ======

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The theme of choices is a recurring one, and very important element of this story. Multiple times, Conroy must make the decision whether not to press on with his journey, and throughout the story he just picks the wrong choice over and over. ======

Completion 5/5 Effort 4/5 Content4.5/5 total 13.5/15

Character Sketch : Due monday.

Alone and exhausted in the most ruthless of surroundings, Dave Conroy struggles to get to shelter and comfort. Dave Conroy is on a mountain traveling home with his trapped goods. He is an extremely intelligent man. In the story, he knows the way home on the mountain like the back of his hand. In the same way he is also incredibly brave to travel alone, and to carry such a heavy pack, knowing there could be bears or wolves in the area. From the last two traits one may say that Conroy demonstrated that he is also rather stubborn, making worse and worse decisions to persist onto his journey, to his death. One may conclude that Nature does not kill anyone; nature just behaves the way it has too. He killed himself, he walked into it. He's dead because he did.Vague

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I give this paragraph a total of 6/6 because it states basically everything stated in the story about this character.