Dr.+Heidegger's+Experiment

Short Stories - Literary Devises Title: **Dr.Heidegger’s Experiment** Point of View: **1st person**

Protagonist: **Dr. Heidegger**

What type of character is the Protagonist?
 * The protagonist is round and dynamic.**

Antagonist: **Dr. Heidegger**

Describe the setting
 * The setting is in a chamber in an old house. Probably in the 1800s because not very many people have chambers now. The mood is kind of dark and mysterious.**

Type of Conflict: **Man vs Himself**

Describe the main conflict:
 * The doctor hopes that this experiment might help him go back and be with his wife again. But when the old people take the water they repeat all of there mistakes, and than they don’t feel young anymore.**

Describe the Climax of the Story:
 * When they knock over the vase and the water spills out. That’s when they realize that they wont stay young forever. So they decide to go to Florida.**

How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story? T**he doctor wants to see if this water works, so maybe he could take it and see his wife again. But when he realizes that it wears off and does not work. He says that he would never drink the water because he would just repeat his mistakes.** Describe the relationship between the title and the theme.
 * The title is Dr. Heidegger’s experiment and the theme is that people can start out one way and change by making decisions and life and that’s reflected on them. But an experiment to see if something could make people go back and change those mistakes.**

How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme? How does the climax help to illustrate the theme? Give examples of each of the following literary terms in the story (use quotes):
 * The main conflict is that the doctor wants to see if the water really makes you younger, but it doesn’t. And the theme is that people make mistakes and it changes how the rest of there lives are, and how they feel about themselves. The water doesn’t really work and it wears off, but the people feel younger but start to talk about repeat there mistakes again.**
 * The climax is when the water gets knocked over and they realize that the water doesn’t really work, and the theme is that they mistakes in your past life reflect on on what your like later on. And when they knocked it over they immediately wanted to go to Florida and get more which is a bad idea because the water doesn’t really work. It just messes them up even more.**

Simile: **“Black as ebony”**

Metaphor: "**The glasses resembled the tremulous glitter of diamonds."**

Personification: **"Peevish toss of her head"**

Symbol: **The rose symbols how something can be beautiful than die and be ugly.**

Foreshadowing (give both elements): **When the rose started to die the doctor realized that the water might not work. And than all the old people started to feel old again.**

Irony: **Dr. Heidegger’s wife died on there wedding day.**

Imagery: **“The water lavished all over the ground.”**

Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story. 1.) The purpose of the experiment is to see if the water of the fountain of youth actually worked or if it just made you feel good. 2.) All of the doctors friends are really old and they all know each other. They are all kind of grumpy during the experiment until they drink the water. 3.) The doctor wouldn’t drink water from the fountain because he would go back and repeat his mistake again like the old people. But they think that if they drink it they will just live a different life. 4.) I think the narrator was like someone who lived in that area, because they spoke of it like it apparently happened and not like they actually know this is exactly what happened. He might have seen the old people going to Florida and found out what happened. 5.) They say that beautiful people when young can get ugly when they old. But some people are still beautiful when they are old. I don’t really believe that everyone gets not beautiful when old. 7.) Some people would want to live for 800 years, but some people might want to live a natural life. If i lived that old i would see everyone of my friends and family die and i might get kind of bored just living for that long.
 * The class theme is emotions and feeling for people, and in this story it shows that people change and get old and because of there mistakes are grumpy and really want to redo them.**
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