Identities

Short Stories - Literary Devises Title: Identites

Point of View: Third-Person Omniscient

Protagonist: The man What type of character is the Protagonist? the man is a person from a identical looking part of town and he leaves it and he didn't know a cop was following him the man is a good person

Antagonist: the cop

Describe the setting: (time, place, mood and atmosphere) the time is possibly autumn and the place is a ‍‍identical ‍‍ nieghbourhood the mood was boring and the atmosphere for the man was fear

Type of Conflict: man vs ma

Describe the main conflict: the fear of the cop and the man

Describe the Climax of the Story: when the man finds out that the cop was following him

How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story? he changes from feelings of bordem to feelings of fear

Describe the relationship between the title and the theme. the title identities represents the part where the man reaches in his pocket for his wallet so he could show the cop his ID to show that he wasn't a bad person.

How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme? The main conflict is with the man and the neighbourhood and the man and the cop. It basically ilustrates that there in a town with some really bad parts and he didn't belong there because the man was from the good side of town.

How does the climax help to illustrate the theme? The climax when the man finally realizes that hes being followed by the cop, he thinks the cop will help him

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

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';"><range type="comment" id="555513">‍‍Simile: Paper clogs the fence like drifted snow. Darkness has quietly been settling like soot. <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Metaphor: there were salmon tins glinting with silver, set above hand- painted signs instructing purchasers to deposit twenty- five or fifty cents. This act of faith containing all the stories he has read in childhood about the North.

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Personification: Eagles, tigers, wolves and serpents ride their backs.

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Symbol: the man's wallet is a symbol for identity

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Foreshadowing (give both elements): When it says that he usually shaves before he goes out and the begining of the story it says that he didn't, basically showed that something was out of the ordinary. then sure enough later in the story he gets misidentified as a criminal by a cop

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Irony: when the man saw the cop was following him and thought the cop would help him so he reached for his wallet and he cop shot him

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Imagery: ‍‍ The smell of burning leaves stirs the memories of childhood car rides, narrow lanes adrift with yellow leaves, girls on plodding horses, unattended stands piled high with pumpkins, onions, or beets. Completion 3/5 Content 6/10 Effort 4/5 total 13/20

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">﻿Identities Paragraph (Good Copy)

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">It is common in human nature, to want to leave your home and see other places, to worry about what is happening to <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">the people you love or care about, and the story "Identities" explore all these aspects, and I am going to explain why. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The man in "Identities" is tired of the sameness of his neighbourhood. It is also very common to worry about family or friends when <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">your away or haven't seen them in awhile. What the man does in the story tells us that he is stereotypical, and scared of <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">unfimilar surrondings, its very common in humans to be like this, <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">cause when humans get lost all they want to do is go home. <range type="comment" id="164290">‍‍The cops behavior in the story was odd for a cop but the cop was probably a rookie. But his behavior wasn't much different than the man. Just because the man was not clean shaven and driving a really nice car in a bad neibourhood the cop labelled him a thief. But i think its odd how he had to go to a payphone because a Mercedes Benz is a phone so the story must be in the 1900's ‍‍. In conclusion, I think people do all this stuff even though its odd its just normal human behavior towards the unknown.

Some good content here. Be careful of the run-on sentences. 4/6