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 * Short Stories - Literary Devices Title:___The Portable Phonograph____**
 * Short Stories - Literary Devices Title:___The Portable Phonograph____**

Third Person
 * Point of View:**

The Musician
 * Protagonist:**

Round, Dynamic
 * What type of character is the Protagonist?**

Their environment
 * Antagonist:**

The setting took place near the end of the day, due to the sunset. They were in a cold prairie, possible during winter (everything was frozen). The four men were in a dug-out of the bank above a river, something like a cell.
 * Describe the setting**

Man vs environment
 * Type of Conflict:**

The main conflict is when the musician starts to hear the music, and the music pains him because it sounded empty to him. He could never play music again where he was. This caused him to realize that he needed the phonograph, and he could not last without it.
 * Describe the main conflict:**

I think the climax of the story starts when the doctor hears a suppressed cough. After hearing that, he frantically made preparations in case the person was going to steal the phonograph.
 * Describe the Climax of the Story:**

At the beginning of the story, the musician was a quietly, seemingly kind type of man. Later on, after he heard the music that came from the phonograph, fear and desperate need engulfed him. His personality changed so that only one gaol existed; to get hold of the phonograph.
 * How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story?**

I think the theme of the story is that when humans are stripped everything they used to have, it could make them view little things, like listening to one piece of music a treasure, and change everything that they have, including their personality. The title "The Portable Phonograph" symbolizes the phonograph the doctor had, the phonograph he and the musician were willing to kill for.
 * Describe the relationship between the title and the theme.**

The musician was filled with pain from the loss of being able to play music. The moment the music started playing, he felt that he needed to have the phonograph to fill in the void he's been bearing. this shows that when something you cherish is taken away from you, you may resort to anything in order to get it.
 * How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme?**

When the doctor heard the suppressed cough from far away, this indicated that the musician was waiting for a time to steal the phonograph. This act of greed connects to the theme of the story.
 * How does the climax help to illustrate the theme?**


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

"He was like a prehistoric priest performing a fateful ceremonial rite."
 * Simile:**

"the mute darkness" "The wet, blue-green notes"
 * Metaphor:**

"clouds could be seen gliding rapidly"
 * Personification:**

"It impressed the doctor that one of them had just been obscured by the beginning of a flying cloud"
 * Symbol:**

"A sound of suppressed coughing."
 * <range type="comment" id="700901">Foreshadowing (give both elements):**

"He believed that down against the pale alders he could see the moving shadow."

I find it ironic that the musician, which seemed to be the most polite and shy character, turns out to be the one who is taken over by the greed.
 * Irony:**

"Out of the sunset, through the dead, matted grass and isolated wee stalks of the prairie, crept the narrow and deeply rutted remains of a road."
 * Imagery:**

Our class theme being Humanity, this story describes how greed can overwhelm our minds and lead us to doing horrible acts in order to get what we want. The story also shows that when we lose everything that we once had, we come to respect those simple things in life.
 * Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story.**


 * 1)** The story is probably set around the remains of a battlefield, hence the scars of gigantic bombs. from the information given, I believe that a war has recently occurred.


 * 2)** I think the reason for the meeting was to regain their humanity through books and music that was saved from the war. Unwrapping a bundle of books is like opening a door to humanity for the four men.


 * 3)** The books symbolizes the humanity that humans shared in the past before technology took the souls of us away. recent books of fiction relate too much to what was happening to them, so older books can help them more.


 * 4) a.** The act of clutching a lead pipe in the end, meant that if anyone was to come in and attempt to steal the phonograph, he would be willing to harm them in any manner to protect it.
 * b.** I think that there will be no positive result. The musician has already been overcome with greed, and the doctor has decided that he would protect the phonograph at all costs. I think that the musician will attempt to steal the phonograph, and the doctor will fight against his. No matter who wins the fight, one of them will be hurt in a certain way.

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