A Mountain Journey

Questions:

1. What was Dave Conroy doing out in the wilderness? ↓ 

Conroy was trying to get to the MacMoran’s cabin because he need to sleep somewhere indoors so he wouldn’t freeze.
2. At what point does the reader know the protagonist is in serious trouble and not likely to
make it to MacMoran’s cabin? ↓

When he falls, he is freezing and his feet and hands are wet. His skis got frozen and it was impossible for him to put them back on.
3 What three critical mistakes did Conroy make? What are some of the things he could
have done to prevent himself from freezing? ↓

Putting his pack down witch meant he didn’t have any resources. When his skis froze, preventing him from being able to continue skiing. Not stopping under the tree and trying to get to the cabin.
4. Determine the elements of plot in this story: exposition, complicating incident, 3 crises,
climax, and the denouement. ↓

When he was hiking, When he dropped his skis and when he was waiting for MacMoran’s cabin, when he died.
5. Describe the setting – how does the setting affect the plot and the theme of the story?
What is the theme – write a theme statement for this story. ↓

February,Winter, Canada. Dave Conroy is in the forest and its hard on the body and the brain when you are cold.
6. Find one example of symbolic setting and explain its meaning. ↓

I think his skis represent people who support him and when they froze the people in his life stopped supporting him.
7. Quote four images from the story that make effective comparisons. ↓

1. “Stiff, branch-less trees, like a parade of skeletons climbing up the mountainside.”
2. “He felt no sensations in them at all and his feet might have been pieces of wood strapped within his ski boots.”  
3. “His skis had sunk a foot in the new snow, white and soft as flour” 
4. “his shadow became a burden, like something he pulled behind him in the snow. 

Vocabulary:

1. Eternal – lasting or existing forever; without end or beginning.
2. Immobility – The state of not moving; motionlessness.
3. Opaque – Not able to be seen through; not transparent.
4. Reverberation – A continuing effect; a repercussion.
5. Momentum – The quantity of motion of a moving body, measured as a product of its mass and velocity.
6. Cadaverous – Resembling a corpse in being very pale, thin, or bony.
7. Congregates – Gather into a crowd or mass.
8. Inundation – An overwhelming abundance of people or things.
9. Beggared – Reduce (someone) to poverty.
10. Filched – Pilfer or steal in a casual way, (something, especially a thing of small value)