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The Portable Phonograph SlideshowShort Stories - Literary Devises Title: __The Portable Phonograph__

Point of View: Third Person, you don't know the thoughts of any of the characters, and it isn't a character speaking

Protagonist: The protagonist of this story is Dr Jenkins because it mainly revovles around him and his actions.

What type of character is the Protagonist?

Antagonist: The antagonist, the musician, is a

Describe the setting This story takes place just after a world war. It is twilight, and it seems almost hopeful to me. There are geese flying, looking for a new start and the clouds are being blown away, making it seem like things will get better. The characters are hidden in a man made cave, dug out in a dirt wall.

Type of Conflict: The conflict in this story is man vs. man.

Describe the main conflict: The main conflict of this story is between the musician and Dr Jenkins. Dr Jenkins wants to share what he has preserved of humanity, books and music, yet the musician would rather keep it to himself.

Describe the Climax of the Story: The climax of the story arrives when the three men eave Dr Jenkins. At first you think the story will end there, when really you find out about the musician wanting to steal the phonograph. At that moment you realie what kinds of characters Dr Jenkins and the musician really are.

How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story? The protagonist goes from being a generous man to being a man who is willing to injure someone for something he loves, even though he can live without it.

Describe the relationship between the title and the theme.

How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme? The main conflict helps illustrate the theme because it shows Dr Jenkins pretending to trust the musician, when really he suspects that the musician will try to steal the phonograph. The musician trusts that Dr Jenkins will nbelieve that he is a good man, when really he is planning to betray him.

How does the climax help to illustrate the theme? When the climax comes I thought that the theme would be something like sentimentality, but then you see how selfish both of the men are. You see how easily somebody will betray another's trust just for personal gain.

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

Simile: He was like a prehistoric priest performing a fateful ceremonial rite. - They are comparing Dr Jenkins to a preist because he's being so careful and concentrating so hard. The red sunset, with narrow, black cloud strip like threads... - They are comparing the pieces of cloud to thread because they are so thin.

Metaphor: The individual delectable presences swept into a sudden tide of unbearably beautiful; dissonance, and then continued fully the swelling and ebbing of that tide, the dissonant inpourings, and the resolutions, and the diminishings, and the little, quiet wavelets of interlude lapping between them. -this is a metaphor for the music. It's comparing how the music rises and falls like the waves in an ocean

Personification: Out of the sunset, through the dead, matted grass and isolated weed stalks of the prairie crept the narrow and deeply rutted remains of a road. - Roads do not creep, they don't move at all.

Symbol: The piece of canvass he uses for a door represents how even in their terrible situation, something can be made out of anything. As long as they do not lose hope they can always find a solution for their problem.

Foreshadowing: The fourth man said nothing. - this implies that the fourth amn, the musician, is thinking of something else. I thought he was planning on wrecking something, not stealing something though.

Irony: i found it ironic that the musician was the person who wanted to hear the music more then anybody else, but he was willing to take it away from everybody else. I think is situational irony.

Imagery: there was the smell and expectation of snow, as there is likely to be when the wild geese fly south. - This made me not only see the setting, but I felt it to, like, it made me feel almost cold.

Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story. The class theme relates to this story because it shows both the good and bad aspects of humanity. It shows that we will trust other humans, especially when we have no other choice. It also shows that we will put ourselves in front of others when we want something enough.

1. This story takes place just after a world war, probably WW1 because they are still using a phonograph instead of something like a radio. The mean recently fought in the war.

2. The men are meeting so they can hear the music and listen to literature that reminds them of what their lives were like before the war. the author compared the unwrapping of the book to a ceremonial rite because it was such a serious moment, and meant so much. He also compared the way they were sitting to prayer. It made it evident that this was very important to them, like the way people used to go to church every sunday.

3. The books they read were great pieces of art that we still read today. They represent aspects of humanity that we rarely look at. there aren't any recent books because these are ones the Dr Jenkins has saved. He couldn't have gone out and bought new ones.

4. a) It is significant that Dr Jenkins was holding the lead pipe because it shows that he suspects that the musician will come back and try to steal the phonograph. It also shows that he was willing to hurt somebody to save a little piece of his former life, especially ince he has no family any more. b) You can guess that the musician is planning to come back, but he may not if he sees the Dr Jenkins is prepared and suspects him already.

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