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 Character Dynamic Character Antagonist: Himself

Describe the setting: (time, place, mood and atmosphere) Nice atmosphere, Before cell phones, Depressed, Mid-day

Type of Conflict: Man vs. Himself

Describe the main conflict: Man not satisfied at home So he leaves

Describe the Climax of the Story: The man reaching into his back pocket for his identity

How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story? He shaves his beard off goes and goes into a different atmosphere

Describe the relationship between the title and the theme.

The title is called Identities. The protagonist is mistaken to be somebody he is not because of how the policeman perceived the protagonist based on a stereotype.

How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme? hes depressed unsatisfied so he leaves his house and goes for a drive

How does the climax help to illustrate the theme? Teaches us examples of human nature

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

Simile: Paper clogs the fence like drifted snow

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Metaphor: Beyond the light, everything is obscured by darkness

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Personification: Time has run away with him

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Symbol: ”He reaches his hand not in the air as he was ordered to, but towards his wallet for identity.”

The car symbolizes wealth.

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Foreshadowing (give both elements): ” Nor the officer who is advancing with a pistol in his hand.”

” 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

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Irony: policeman stereotyping and shot him cause he was going for identity

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Imagery: ridges of grass no cracks in sidewalk

Completion 5/5 Content 8/10 Effort 4/5 total 17/20

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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Identities Paragraph

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">The elements of human nature displayed in this book are Fear, Curiosity and Stereotyping. He leaves his house because he wants to its another aspect in human nature never satisfied cant saty in one place. So he got in his car and started driving looking at the beautiful houses and the gleaming sun. Shortly after a couple of houses he starts to get worried the house aren't the same anymore there getting worse as he drives down the street cracks in the sidewalk, garbage piled high and he enters a different area. This says he is used to high end merchandise nice houses nice cars but he gets frightened when he notices hes far from home hes somewhere unfami liar it scares him he thinks he will get jumped. A policeman is driving behind the man but the man doesnt no this <range type="comment" id="733319">‍The policeman is also frightened he sees this nice car in this crappy neighbourhood and suspects its stolen as the car stopped and the policeman out of his car the man stepped out thinking he was safe to get directions or help the man went to reach into his back pocket the policeman didnt even let his hand to come out of the pocket before he shot at the man ‍. In the man's hand lay his Identification. The policeman judged this man too quick and suspected something that wasnt tru e an other aspect of human na ture Ju dgement.

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