A MOUNTAIN JOURNEY QUESTIONS
- He was Trapping animals
- How he’s freezing to death and his fingers are completely paralyzed/numb
- he doesn’t take a break, he didn’t make a fire so he can heat his fingers,
- Introduction: Trapper Dave is having trouble in the snow so he’s trying to get to safety
Setting: wintertime, mid-February, Canada, Northern BC/Alberta
Initiating Incident Dave knew he should have stop to camp 2 miles
Rising Action
- the weather got terrible
- he fell into an air hole
- his entire body was freezing like ice
Climax
when Dave finally gets to the cabin the fire had burned it down
Falling Action
He decided that he needed to find another shelter
Conclusion
He was slowly dying in the snow
- The theme of the story is survival. The setting of the story is he is forced to survive in a FREEZING CONDITION.
- The cabin gave hope for Dave
- (simile) He was beginning to feel like a ghost
(simile) White and soft as flour
(personification) Forest moaning beside him
(personification) The cold was nibbling at him
(metaphor) The rivers… were the winter highways of the mountains