Identities

__Identities __ __﻿__ __Short Stories - Literary Devises __ __Title: Identities __

Point of View: 3rd Person

Protagonist: The man looking for someone or something.

What type of character is the Protagonist? Round and Dynamic.

Antagonist: The ghetto people of the scummy town.

Describe the setting The story begins on a Fall day in the late afternoon and ends in the evening.

Type of Conflict: Man vs. Society

Describe the main conflict: <span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;">I think the main conflict is between the man driving around and the neighbourhood he is driving in. The man feels really nervous as he enters the neighbourhood because all of the people here are really scrappy and not professional looking.

<span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;">Describe the Climax of the Story: <span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;">The climax of the story is right at the moment when the man goes to pull out his wallet or his "identity". I think this is the climax because it is right when the cop pulls over and points a gun at him and shoots because he believes that the man is pulling out a gun and not his wallet.

<span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;">How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story? <span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;">He starts out feeling good about himself, then enters a neighbourhood in which he feels nervous and unsafe because it is really ghetto, then he sees a policeman and feels relieved.

<span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;">Describe the relationship between the title and the theme. <span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;">The title and theme are very similar because the theme of this story is how your identity is a key element to this world. The policeman judged what this man's identity was by his looks and killed him because of it.

<span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;">How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme? <span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;">The main conflict helps illustrate the theme because the conflict and the theme are very similar. The conflict is between the man and the society and the theme is very similar because all because of him going into the ghetto part of town it caused the main conflict to happen.

<span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;">How does the climax help to illustrate the theme? <span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;">The climax helps illustrate the theme because right when the man pulls out his identity it relates to the theme of how your identity is judged by your looks always.

__<span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;">Give examples of each of the following literary terms in the story (use quotes) __<span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;">:

<span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;">Simile: <span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;">“Paper clogs the fence like drifted snow.”

<span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;">Metaphor: <span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;">“The store window illuminates the sidewalk like a stage.”

<span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;">Personification: <span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Gangs of young men follow the car with unblinking eyes."

<span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;">Symbol: <span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;">When the author states that the men are wearing leather jackets, you know that they are tough guys and they aren't afraid to mug people.

<span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;">Foreshadowing (give both elements): <span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;">"He is overtaken by sudden guilt." When I read this sentence I knew that something bad was going to happen because he kept thinking of things he forgot to do such as tell his wife where he had gone.

<span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;">Irony: <span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;">It was very ironic how the man decides not to shave one day and wear jeans and it is the day that he is shot and killed. "Normally, he goes clean-shaven into the world, but the promise of a Saturday liquid with sunshine draws him first from his study to the backyard, from there to his front yard."

<span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;">Imagery: <span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Now, as he passes grey stone gates, the yards are all proscribed by stiff picket fences and, quickly, a certain untidiness creeps in: a fragment of glass, a chocolate bar wrapper, a plastic horse, cracked sidewalks with ridges of stiff grass.

<span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;">Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story: Our class theme, "Humanity" is very similar to the story title "Identities" because they both are very similar words. Every human has their own unique identity. Nobody is born exactly the same as another person and does the exact same things as them. If you take two __ identical __ twins for example, Henrik and Daniel Sedin. They are physically pretty much the same, but they have different personalities and do different things in their life. They both have different identities for example they have different names. I also believe that humanity has evolved into judging peoples identities by their looks. For example someone who is wearing a suit and tie with nice dress shoes on you would presume that they are a nice person. Although this presumption maybe correct, it still maybe wrong. People can't be fully identified by only their physical features, but also their emotional features. This is why I believe that your unique humanity is __ your __ own unique identity.

<span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;">Completion 5/5 <span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;">Effort 5/5 <span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;">Content 5/5 <span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Paragraph 5/5

<span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;">total 20/20