Identities

Please complete this assignment and send me a wikispace message to re-evaluate. Short Stories - Literary Devises Title: Identities

Point of View: Third person

Protagonist: The man

What type of character is the Protagonist? Round and Dynamic

Antagonist: Enviroment

Describe the setting: (time, place, mood and atmosphere) Midnight, Suburban streets

‍‍‍‍Type of Conflict: Man vs. Himself, Man vs. Enviorment ‍‍

Describe the main conflict: The mans incecurity of his enviroment.

Describe the Climax of the Story: When the man relises what he got himself into.

How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story? <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">He goes form being happy to scared.

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Describe the relationship between the title and the theme. <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Ironic

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme? Because the man thought he was going to have a good day.

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">How does the climax help to illustrate the theme? <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Its ironic because the main character assumed he was safe.

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Give examples of each of the following literary terms in the story (use quotes):

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Simile: "paper clogs the fence like drifted snow" "darkness like a stage"

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Metaphor: "the store window illuminates the sidewalk like a stage"

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Personification: "a certain untidiness creeps in"

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Symbol: the mercedes benz is a symbol for the man being uppercalss

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Foreshadowing (give both elements): "finding and losing his way endlessly"

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Irony: "certain of his saftey, in the last voluntray of his life"

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Imagery: "cracked sidewalks with ridges of stiff grass"

Completion 5/5 Content 8/10 Effort 5/5 total 18/20

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';"><range type="comment" id="34349">‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍The man leaves his house when he see's the sun shining and the smelll of burning leaves ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍. It reminds him of his childhood car rides, so he desides to take a car ride. he starts to worry as he drifts through the neat suburban streets. He begins to worry when he gets lost and see's garbage on the cracked sidewalks. He realizes that his wife has returned form shopping, so he need to call her, so he see's a store with a phone booth in it. As he leaves the store he does not no there is a policeman following him. The police officer is nervous becuase of the neighbourhood, and is suspicious of the car he orders him to halt, when he turn part way around and he see's the police officer and has relief because he thinks safety. He reaches his hand not in the air as he was ordered to, but toward his waller for identity but got shot.

This is a great plot summary Ashton, but it does not address the assignment. Please see me if you do not understand the question.

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