Literature Analysis #2

1.                  In Tom Birdseye’s book entitled Storm Mountain, the main characters are Cat and her cousin Ty. Ty comes over to visit her cousin Cat, with his dad’s ashes. Ty asks Cat if she would go with him to climb Storm Mountain. He also suggested that she should also take her dad’s ashes. Ty’s goal is to spread his dad’s ashes on top of Storm Mountain. Cat said that she won’t go with him. Ty replied saying he is leaving at 5 am. Ty wants to spread the ashes because that was the mountain that cat’s dad and his dad had died on. The next day cat wakes up and notices her dad’s ashes gone and also is Ty. She has to now go after him to regain her dad’s ashes. Through the adventure she goes to reach Ty she faces harsh blizzards and gets caught up with snow. They got stuck just how their fathers did. Finally in the end they climb it from the west side not the south side were their fathers died.

2.                  The theme is to not take what is not yours because there are consequences. The author chose to talk about this topic because he wants people to stop taking things that don’t belong to them. The consequences can be pretty huge.

3.                   At first I chose this book because it was short but then it was a pretty good book about how two kids climb a mountain and survive harsh things. I kept reading it because it was interesting because they are only thirteen.

4.                  I found some what the book to be realistic because I am two years older and the book has a realistic story not like some other stories. I did have connection with the book because when I was younger I made stupid mistakes.

5.                  The author’s tone is normal because it has the simple things that a book has.

6.                  The ashes are a symbol of love because it was their father before they died. “Dad’s still here” (Birdseye 10).  “You’re looking a lot like a deer in the headlights” (Birdseye 6). That is a figurative language that is a simile. “Ty was already prancing around like a horse in the starting gate” (Birdseye 129). That’s another simile. “The thwock-thwock-thwock of helicopter rotors…” (Birdseye 129). That is onomatopoeia. “… Reading, Where the Wild Things Are…” (Birdseye 116). This is allusion.

Characterization

1.       Direct characterization: The author doesn’t give direct characterization.

Indirect characterization: Ty is a funny kid. I know this because it is indirect when the author said, “What’s the matter, cat got your tongue?” (Birdseye 6). Cat is sneaky because, “Mom thinks I’m dunking with my friend Alex while she and Gene are gone” (Birdseye 7).

2.      The author talks about the characters the same way, but puts them in difficult position.

3.      The protagonist is Dynamic and is a round character because she changes from being mad at Ty, then changes at the end when they are both happy and not mad at each other.

Enduring Memory

The moment Ty decides to think on his own and takes Cat’s father’s ashes and to climb a mountain that he knew his dad had died on. It is important because he’s young and he doesn’t have experience of climbing mountains. Yet he climbs it and spreads the ashes.