Dr.+Heidegger's+experiment

1. To learn a lesson and to help him decide whether he would want to drink from the fountain.

2. They all want their youth so they drink out of this fountain of youth and they thought they were youthful once again and got back everything they had when they were young, which made them act wild, laugh and dance.

3. Heddiger wouldn't drink the water because he didn't want to loose all his knowledge and make him forget everything, his friends just wanted to be young again.

4. The narrater is omniscient, he knows what happens because, another scientist was in the room hiding somewhere.The narrater is sure about the things he saw.

5. I agree that people seem to always want their youth back and wish to be young again, therefore, I think that almost anyone would drink from this fountain and even risk their intelligence or anything to become youthful.

7. In my opinion I would love to live to be alot older than the average person because like people say "life is short" so if it were me, I'd drink it too.

Short Stories - Literary Devises Title: Dr. Heddigers Experiment.

Point of View: Omniscient

Protagonist: Dr.Heddiger

What type of character is the Protagonist? He is a round

Antagonist: His friends. Or Scientific experiments.

Describe the setting. The setting is in his lab around the 1700 in mid spring

Type of Conflict: Man vs himself

Describe the main conflict: The main conflict of the short story is man vs himself because he uses these people to help him decide whether or not he'd drink from the fountain of youth. He doesnt know if he should or not. He is contemplating whether or not to drink from it.

Describe the Climax of the Story: When the Dr. Heidegger's "friends" start freaking out after drinking from the fountain, and are dancing by the window, they see that they look the exact same and realize that they had been too caught up in the thought of being youthfull again and didn't really realize that it might not have had the effect they had hoped.

How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story? He realizes that the majority of people are really stupid and shallow seeing as they only care about their looks, as well as they only care about themselves.

Describe the relationship between the title and the theme. The title explains the theme. The people are his experiment.

How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme? It illustrates it by making the readers actually believe that the potion had worked.

How does the climax help to illustrate the theme? That they turn into crazy people.

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

Simile: "Like a parade of skeletons climbing up the mountainside." "Rising lonely as a monument left b y men a hundred years ago."

Metaphor: "A mountain Journey" "Knowing that speed was his one means of escape from the cold hand of wilderness."

Personification: "For the first time the long day he could stand back on his skis and let them carry him where he wished to go." "The cold was an old man's fingers feeling craftily through his clothes."

Symbol: The open door at the end of the story is a symbol for wanting him to come in and him being welcomed. It represents that he has made it and that people are inside waiting for him to come in. Foreshadowing (give both elements): "Yet, by a strange deception, owing to the duskiness of the chamber, and the antique dresses which they still wore, the tall mirror is said to have reflected the figures of the three old, gray, withered grandsires, ridiculously contending for the skinny ugliness of a shrivelled grandam." Even though they had drank the water from the Fountain of Youth, the mirror showed that they were still old.

Irony: "You drink, my respectable old friends," said he, "it would be well that, with the experience of a lifetime to direct you, you should draw up a few general rules for your guidance, in passing a second time through the perils of youth. Think what a sin and shame it would be, if, with your peculiar advantages, you should not become patterns of virtue and wisdom to all the young people of the age!"

Imagery:

The way that Dr. Heidegger's study is described gives me a really good idea of what it would look like. It got my imagination running and painted images in my head of his study.

Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story.

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