Identities

Short Stories - Literary Devises Title: __Identities__

Point of View: Third person view

Protagonist: The man driving the Mercedes Benz

What type of character is the Protagonist? The protagonist is a nice successful man who tends to judge people on how they look.

Antagonist: Himself

Describe the setting:The setting for the start of the story isin the daytime in a rich neighbourhood with all perfect houses and lawns, and nothing out of place. As the story progresses, the setting gets dark as it is now nighttime, and he is now in a bad neighbourhood with gangs and run down houses.

Type of Conflict: Man Vs. Self / Man Vs. Society

Describe the main conflict: The main conflict of the story is this man getting lost in a very dark, bad neighbourhood.

Describe the Climax of the Story: The climax of the story would be when the officer gets out of his car and asks the man to halt, and put his hands about his head. Instead, the man reaches for his identity, and gets shot because he was misjudged.

How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story? : I believe that the protagonist doesn't change during the story. I believe he is judges differently due to his surroundings and things he owns.

Describe the relationship between the title and the theme : The relationship between the title and theme is the fact that you shouldn't judge people by what you think their identity might be, you have to really find out their identity and who they are first to label someone.

How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme? The main conflict helps to illustrate the theme because it leads up to what happens to make the theme the theme.

How does the climax help to illustrate the theme? The climax helps to illistrate the theme because it really makes people realize that they shouldn't judge someone because of how they look because bad outcomes could occur such as the one that did.

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

Simile: “Paper clogs the fence like drifted snow.”

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Metaphor: “ Eagles, tigers, wolves and serpents ride their backs”.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Personification: “He takes them as a signal to return the way he came, but it has been a reckless, haphazard path”

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Symbol:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Foreshadowing (give both elements):

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Irony: When the officer, who is inexperienced, who is nervous because of the neighbourhood, who is suspicious because of the car and, because he has been trained to see an unshaven man in blue jeans as a potential thief and not as a probable owner, orders him to halt, he is caught by surprise. When he turns part way around and recognizes the uniform, he does not feel fear but relief. Instinctively relaxing, certain of his safety, in the last voluntary movement of his life, he reaches his hand not in the air as he was ordered to, but toward his wallet for identity.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This is ironic because the police man judged the man on his appearance and his surroundings, which is exactly what he did to the other people that he drove by.

<span style="background-color: #ff0000; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Imagery:

<span style="background-color: #ff0000; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story.: the relationship between the class theme and the story is that the story helps you understand the theme, and it emphasizes the theme.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Complete 3/5 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Effort 35 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Content 3/5 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Paragraph 0/5

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">total 9/20