the+portable+phonograph

Short Stories - Literary Devises Title: The portable phonograph

Point of View: Third person

Protagonist: Dr. Jenkins What type of character is the Protagonist? He is a round, developed character.

Antagonist: The society

Describe the setting It seems to me that they are deserted somewhere somehow and they have very little left in their world, as if everything was destroyed by something. At first I thought it was destroyed by the electronics that we have today but after thinking maybe it was destroyed by some human conflict?

Type of Conflict: Man vs. society

Describe the main conflict: I believe the main conflict is not included in the story, I think it is something that made everything in life so much more precious, a social conflict that must have happened before the story.

Describe the Climax of the Story: I believe the climax of the story is when the musician hears the music and goes half insane. It shows how distraught the musician actually is and gives more reason to suspect that the musician would try to steal the phonograph.

How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story? I think the main change in Dr Jenkins is that after seeing what happened with the musician he became much more wary, cautious, and afraid of what would some next.

Describe the relationship between the title and the theme. The title the portable phonograph helps represent the theme of holding on to what is important to us. We cannot let what we love fade into the void and just totally forget about it.

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme? <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">As I stated before I believe that the main conflict wasn’t written in the short story, and I believe that the conflict illustrated the theme of holding what is important to us quite well because whatever it was it destroyed these people’s lives and ravaged the planet. I felt a heartbroken tone to this story, I believe what the people had before was completely destroyed and so they had to go back to the basics, books, phonographs, and all those sorts of things.

How does the climax help to illustrate the theme?

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

Simile: "within the cell, there was a little red of fire, whih showed dully through the opening like a reflection or a deception of the imagination"

Metaphor: "there is more soul than we can see"

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.

Symbol: I think that the portable phonograph is a symbol of part of what the people in the story lost and what they want to regain. the quality of life they lost.

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Foreshadowing (give both elements): the sneeze I think foreshadows the musician trying to steal the phonograph although it is not included in the story. In my honest opinion I believe that it is highly likely that the musician will do something to try to access more time with the phonograph or steal it entirely.

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Irony: I find it ironic that the musician that plays music for other peoples’ pleasure wants to rob the other people of their music, indicating that he just wants his life back to normal. Obviously something happened to turn these people to such a state of mind. Imagery: "the red sunset, black cloud ships"

Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story.

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i think this story is set in the '50s right after the second world war because its the only event of mass destruction that could provoke these people to act this way and everything seems broke or destroyed in my eyes.======

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Effort 4.5/5 Content 4/5 Questions 6/8 total 18.5/23

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