The+Portable+Phonograph

Short Stories - Literary Devises Title:The Portable Phonograph

Point of View: 3rd person

Protagonist: Dr. Jenkins What type of character is the Protagonist?: Round, Dynamic

Antagonist(s): The Environment, the musician

Describe the setting: Post-apocalyptic, wasteland in the future after a nuclear war. In a meadow.

Type of Conflict: Man vs. Environment.

Describe the main conflict: Its the four men trying to survive (also keep their sanity) in this Post-apocalyptic wasteland.

Describe the Climax of the Story: The Climax of the story is: When they are listening to the song.

How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story? He changes from trusting to less so.

Describe the relationship between the title and the theme.

The theme is about precious things and the portable phonograph is very precious at that time!

How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme?

The more stuff you have the more precious it can be, the more precious it is the more worth it has, the more worth it has the more people are greedy, the more that people are greedy the more people get mad, the more people have wars, the more war we have more apocalypse happens.

How does the climax help to illustrate the theme?

Music is one of the few precious they hay have left!

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

Simile: Black cloud strips like threats across it

Metaphor:

They are the scars of gigantic bombs.

Personification:

crept the narrow an deeply rutted remain of a road

Symbol:

BOOKS, they represent the longing of a past time.

Foreshadowing (give both elements):

The musician sickness foreshadow his pain in the future.

Irony:

It is ironic that a cell in this time is now a place of gathering and protection insted of a place of fear.

Imagery:

Around the smoldering peat, four men were seated cross-legged.;

Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story.

The story's theme was about human nature and the class theme is humanity.

Questions:

1: I think that the story was based in an altered realities where Russia bombed the US. in the cold war. A nuclear bomb as recently gone off. I think so because all if the books and things were from the past.

2:

They meet to retain their sanity. It is a ceremony because it is one of the few things that have a connection to their past lives.

3:

It was significant because they were all great work of fiction that were well known. There is no recent fiction because they haven't been written yet.

4: a:

To show that he his ready to defend him self if needed.

b:

I'm guessing that the musicshin will come to the Dr.'s door and find it pinned down, so he will determine that the Dr. knows about him and will run away. COMPLETION 4/5 EFFORT 3.5/5 CONTENT 3.5/5 QUESTIONS 6/8 TOTAL17/23

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