Dr.+Heidegger's+Experiment


 * Short Stories - Literary Devises **

Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment
 * Title: **

1st person
 * Point of View: **

Dr. Heidegger
 * Protagonist: **

round, static
 * What type of character is the Protagonist? **

The liquid they drink.
 * Antagonist: **

Inside Dr. Heidegger’s laboratory, in the past mid or late 1900’s.
 * Describe the setting **

man vs. himself
 * Type of Conflict: **

Mr. Medbourne, Colonel Killigrew, and Mr. Gascoigne drinking the liquid and getting younger and returning to their bad habbits.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Describe the main conflict: **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When Mr. Medbourne, Colonel Killgrew, and Mr. Gascoigne are realizing that they are going back to there old age.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Describe the Climax of the Story: **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He realized that maybe it would be a bad idea to give people a second chance in life.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story? **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The theme is being able to have a second chance. And the title is Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment. They are related because Dr. Heidegger’s experiment is to see what happens if people are given a second chance.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Describe the relationship between the title and the theme. **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The theme is being able to have a second chance. The main conflict is when the four people try the liquid and get younger but they return to their old habits. They are related because these four characters are given a second chance but they just waste it by going back to their old habits.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme? **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The climax of the story is when the four characters after trying this liquid they return to their old age. The theme of the story is being able to have a second chance. They are related because The four characters realize that the liquid doesn’t last long.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How does the climax help to illustrate the theme? **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Give examples of each of the following literary terms in the story (use quotes): **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Give us more wondrous water!”
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Simile: **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“This same withered and crumbling flower, blossomed five and fifty years ago.”
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Metaphor: **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Over the central bookcase was a bronze bust of Hippocrates”
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Personification: **

** Symbol: **

** Foreshadowing (give both elements): **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Dr. Heidegger’s wife dies on there wedding day.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Irony: **

** Imagery: **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The class theme is Humanity, and the story are related because if humanity had the second chance to live would they take it and would they use it wisely.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story. **

Completion 3.5/5  Effort 4/5   Content 4/5   Total 11.5/15


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Questions 1,2,3,4,5,7 **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1) **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The purpose of Dr. Heidegger’s experiment as too see if the liquid could actually change your age.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2) **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Dr. Heidegger’s friends all know each other and when they were younger they mad some bad decisions.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3) **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Dr. Heidegger would not drink any water from the Fountain of Youth because he didn’t want to go through his life again because he feels like he lived his life to the fullest. But his friends would because they would probably do anything just to live their life again.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4) **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The narrator in the story is probably someone that found Dr. Heidegger’s note book from this experiment. He probably know what happened because he is reading his notes from the experiment. The narrator seems very positive on his facts.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">5) **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Some points that are made in this story about aging and youth are when you are aged you get more wise and make better decisions. When you are younger you make not as good decisions and don’t think about the consequences.

Questions 8/10  total 19.5/25 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Power Point Presentation https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ko3I_vEzekUxgHl4sio7car1e9kl6Ot6YE8IQMed_Og/edit#slide=id.p  I do not have access to your presentation for evaluation! 0/25
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">7) **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Personally I wouldn’t want to take that vaccine because it would probably cost a lot of money first. And I would have to go though watching my family and loved ones die in front of me.