The+Portable+Phonograph

Short Stories - Literary Devises Title:__ The Portable Phonograph

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Point of View: Third person

Protagonist: Dr. Jenkins What type of character is the Protagonist? flat

Antagonist: The sick young man

Describe the setting: It's near the end of Fall and winter is beginning so it's quite cold but it will get worse. They're in the prairie and there's a sense of isolation and cold.

Type of Conflict: Man vs. man

Describe the main conflict: The main conflict is the man hearing a stifled cough and thinks that the sick young man may try to steal his records and his phonograph.

Describe the Climax of the Story: The climax is when evryone leaves and the man listens and hears the cough.

How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story? I believe he is flat and therefore doesn't change.

Describe the relationship between the title and the theme. The title is The Portable Phonograph and the story is focused around the portable phonograph belonging to Dr. Jenkins and what the music means to the men.

How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme? It clearly shows that when put in certain situations people can be driven to suspect or even actually do some things that they wouldn't have even considered outside of that situation. Like the sick young man potentially planning to steal the phonograph and Dr. Jenkins sleeping with a steal pipe just in case.

How does the climax help to illustrate the theme? Much like the main conflict it portrays how men can changed when their surroundings and situation change; the sick man considering stealing the phonograph because of much he misses music.

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

Simile:

"The red sunset, with narrow, black cloud strips, like threats across it..." the black cloud strips cannot be actual threats so they are being compared to threats using like.

Metaphor:

"...the veil of the dusk..." Dusk cannot actually create a veil so the author is comparing duck to veiol by calling it a veilo without the use of the words like or as.

Personification:

"...matted grass and isolated weed stalks of the prairie, crept the narrow and deeply rutted remains of a road." Grass cannot creep and so the writer is giving the grass the human ability to move.

Symbol:

"You wish to hear the phonograph." The phonograph (and the books) represent everything the men miss.

Foreshadowing (give both elements):

"The two middle-aged men stared into the fire, unable to formulate and expose the enormity of their desire. The young man, however, said anxiously between suppressed coughs, 'Oh please,' like an excited child." The mention of his suppressed coughs foreshadows the meaning in "...the very moment he heard what he had been listening for, a sound of a suppressed coughing."

Irony:

It is ironic that the musician, who you'd think would be the heppiest and seemed most excited to hear the music was in so much pain (when the others were not) as the music was played. "The young man, however, said anxiously, between suppressed coughs, 'Oh please,' like an excited child. "...but the musician suddenly drew back against the wall again, with his knees up, and buried his face in his hands."

Imagery:

High in the air there was a wind, for through the veil of the dusk clouds could be seen gliding rapidly south and changing shapes.

Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story.

This story particularly illustrates how people can change when their environment is changed. The doctor became paranoid that someone may steal his phonograph. "On the inside of the bed, next to the wall, he could feel with his hands, the comfortable piece of lead pipe."

Questions: 1. I believe it a little ways into the future, it says "we have become mechanical fools" which I think is refering to technology potentially ending life as we know it. There seem to be very few people and they are living in wilderhness. Perhaps some type of explosion or science experiment went wrong...

2. I think that the purpose of the men's meeting is to look back upon their past and what has been left behind. So as not to forget the culture. The unwrapping of the books is almost like a cerimonial right because it is a treat to see the books and they are almost sacred to the men being one of the few things that they have left.

3. They are classic and timeless books. They preserve much culture and are great examples of high, quality literature. The man perhaps plan on passing them through generations. The stories the books tell are ones that sould not be forgotten.

4. a) He is scared that someone may attempt to steal some his very precious items such as the phonograph and he cares about these objects so much he is willing to use a weapon (the lead pipe) to protect these items by attacking who ever tries to take them.

b) He heard the muffled coughs so perhaps the sick musician will be so desperate to hear the music that he will try and steal the phonograph and records, but the doctor will be ready with his lead pipe and he may kill or wound the sick musician.

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