Identies

Short Stories - Literary Devises Title: Identities Point of View: Third Person

Protagonist:The man What type of character is the Protagonist? Round character Dynamic character Antagonist: Himself

Describe the setting: (time, place, mood and atmosphere) his neighborhood, before cell phones, depressed/nervous, mid day

Type of Conflict: Man vs. Society Man vs. Himself

Describe the main conflict: Why does the man leave his house

Describe the Climax of the Story: When the man enters the other side of town

How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story? calm to scared from going to different parts of the town

Describe the relationship between the title and the theme. mistaken identities - one big mix up elaborate

How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme? shows the reader how hand stereotypes can get

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">How does the climax help to illustrate the theme? it shows the danger and how the man was feeling

<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';"><range type="comment" id="254192">Simile: Paper clogs the fence like drifted snow Darkness has quietly been settling like soot

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Metaphor: <range type="comment" id="502360">Recalling a television show, he decides that if he is assaulted, he will say that the ten is all he’s got, that he stole the car, and ask them if they know a buyer.

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Personification: <range type="comment" id="7505">he reaches his hand not in the air as he was ordered to, but toward his wallet for identity.

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Symbol: <range type="comment" id="80538">Wallet

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Foreshadowing (give both elements): <range type="comment" id="692140">Normally, he goes clean-shaven into the world

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Irony: the man gets shot cause of his beard and clothes

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Imagery: <range type="comment" id="610354">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.

Completion 5/5 Content 6/10 Effort 4/5

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The elements of human nature in the story “Identities” by W.D. Valgardson are shown through the man being stereotypical and fear of his neighborhood, also through the cop who also shows fear and stereotypical in the neighborhood he patrols in. First, the man leaves his house because of the sunshine and “the smell of burning leaves stirs the memories of childhood car rides” (line 3). The man drives around town and see’s liter on the ground pushed up against a fence and starts thinking that this is a bad neighborhood; he keeps driving and see’s a group of men in leather jackets and assumes that they are bad men and are going to beat him up. The man starts to get scared and nervous, he grabs his wallet and puts it in his inside pocket in his jacket and leaves a 10 in his back pocket. Second, the cop see’s the man in a nice Mercedes Benz, the man stops and gets out and walks towards a pay phone. The cop tells the man to stop thinking he stole the car, the man stops and reaches into his jacket for his wallet but the cop thinks it is a gun he is going for and fires his gun. Therefore, human nature has many bad things, the elements us humans have can be used in a miss leading way which leads to terrible things.

Exellent use of a quote to support your answer. Be careful of too much plot summary.

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