Identities

Short Stories - Literary Devises Title: ___Identities___

Point of View:
 *  3rd-person

Protagonist: The man

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

Antagonist: Describe the setting
 *  Himself/the man.
 *  1900s - no cell phone even though he he has enough to buy a car.
 *  Slums - the description described it as poor “The houses are squat, as though they have been taller and have, slowly, sunk into the ground. Each has a band of dirt around the bottom.”

Type of Conflict:
 *  Person vs Himself

Describe the main conflict:
 *  A man is in a unfamiliar, shady area.

Describe the Climax of the Story:
 *  The climax of the story is when the man reaches for his wallet. The suspense was still building until the very end, when the man tried to pull out his identity

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> He, at first, did not care for anything. He, in fact, did not know where to go or what to do, but somewhere along the story, he thought about his family.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Describe the relationship between the title and the theme.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> The relation between the title and the theme is that the man died trying to pull out his identity

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> The main conflict helped illustrate the theme because it provided a more vague and dark setting which made it more mysterious. It also makes the man prove that humans are prejudice ,because the man was judging people by how they look.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How does the climax help to illustrate the theme? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> The climax helped illustrate the theme by making the fact that everyone is somewhat prejudice

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Give examples of each of the following literary terms in the story (use quotes):

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Simile: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> “ The store window illuminates the sidewalk like a stage”

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Metaphor: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> “Eagles, tigers, wolves and serpents ride their backs.”

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Personification: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> “...but time has run away from him.”

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Symbol: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Police officers are officers of justice which protected the people.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Foreshadowing (give both elements): <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> “In spite of his day old beard which he strokes upward with the heel of his hand, will ,when combined with his clothes, help him to blend in” <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> “Recalling a television show, he decides that is he is assaulted, he will say that the ten is all he got, that he stole the car, and ask them if they know a buyer.” <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"... nor the police officer who was advancing with a pistol in his hand.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Irony: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> The man was prejudice, and the prejudice turned on him.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Imagery:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> “The houses are squat, as though they have been taller and have, slowly, sunk into the ground.”

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What makes Humanity and the story Identities relate? The stories Identity proves that there are some things in human nature that we just do, whether we like to or not. For example, most humans are prejudice. We look at a someone with tattered clothes, sitting on the street, and say they’re homeless. We look at someone with a Ferrari and automatically assume they are rich. We all base stuff on the way it looks, but it would depend on the person’s perspective. One may look someone with straight B’s on his report card, but another with straight A’s, may look at the kid with straight B’s and say he’s not too bright. The previous sentence connects because if the “gang” members approached the man, they might have thought the man was one of the “gang” members. When the man approached the police officer, the man looked suspicious, so the police officer held him at gunpoint. Overall, the story Identities really shows what Humanity may be like.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Complete 5/5 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Effort 4/5 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Content 4/5 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Paragraph 5/5

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">total 18/20