The+Portable+Phonograph

Short Stories - Literary Devises Title: __The Portable Phonograpgh__

Point of View:
 * 3rd person

Protagonist:
 * Dr.Jenkins

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

Antagonist:
 * Environment

Describe the setting
 * A deserted area. Somewhere far away from civilization. The date is unknown, but the phonograph may be a clue.

Type of Conflict:
 * Man vs environment

Describe the main conflict:
 * 4 men are someway far away from civilization.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Describe the Climax of the Story:
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The climax was not somewhere near the middle, but somewhere near the end. It was when all the guest have left, and the place has gotten eerie, when the doctor got all nervous and scared.

<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 was hesitant, weary, and cautious at first in the story, but he began to warm up as they listen to the music from the phonograph

<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 title is “The Portable Phonograph” and the 4 men were listening to the phonograph. The phonograph represented their remaining humanity, which was very precious.

<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 helps illustrate the theme because the 4 men are stranded and the only thing that can rejuvenate them is the phonograph.

<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 helps illustrate the theme by saying that the phonograph is so precious, someone would do something suspicious such as stealing.

<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 red sunset, with narrow, black clouds strips like threats across it.”

<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;">“There is more soul than we can use.”

<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;">“The individual delectable presences swept into a sudden tide of unbearably beautiful dissonance”

<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;">Phonograph- the 4 men’s humanity

<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;">“The musician rose last, but then abruptly, and went quickly out at the door...” <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> We can guess that there’s something wrong <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“... he heard what he had been listening for, a sound of suppressed coughing.” <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> We can infer the musician is going to do something bad.

<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 musician was the one who respected the old man the most, but later on, the musician was the most rude, while the 2 men were polite in the end but rude in the beginnning.

<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 wet, blue-green notes tinkled forth from the old machine...”

<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;">The relation between Humanity and The Portable Phonograph is that the story is about human nature. Once you get something, you want more of it. Humans always want more, even if they have to steal for it. We can never be satisfied.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1.) The story was set somewhere in the 1900s. No one used phonographs in the 2000s, we use CD players and iPods, so it must be somewhere in the 1900s.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2.) The purpose of the men’s meeting was so that the men would not fall insane. They listened to the phonograph so that they would regain some of the humanity that they have lost. The author compared unwrapping the book bundle to a ceremonial rite because the author was trying to point out that humanity is very important.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3.) The significance of the books that were saved were that they were all part of history. They were recognised even though they have been written hundreds of years ago. The reason they did not use recent work fiction was that there was no guarantee that the fiction book would become part of history.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4a.) The purpose of Dr.Jenkins clutching that lead pipe was that if someone were to strangle him in his sleep to steal the phonograph, he could easily just whack the attacker unconscious

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4b.) Considering there was a coughing noise and that Dr.Jenkins was scared out of his mind, I think that the musician is going to enter and try to take the phonograph from the old man. Completion 5/5 Effort 3/5 Content 3.5/5 Questions 6/8 total 17.5/23 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0Af6qAO2le3CgZGduYzhjNGJfMWN4Mjg0dGNq&hl=en_GB__]

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