Dr.+Heidegger's+Experiment


 * Short Stories - Literary DevisesTitle: Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment **


 * Point of View: First ** ** person **


 * Protagonist: Dr. Heidegger **
 * What type of character is the Protagonist? Round and dynamic **


 * Antagonist: Dr. Heidegger **


 * Describe the setting: The story takes place in the doctor's study in his house and the mood is anxious. **


 * Type of Conflict: Man VS himself **


 * Describe the main conflict: The conflict of the story is within the doctor. He’s trying to figure out if he should drink the fountain water just like the others but at the end he realizes that he doesnt want to relive his past. **


 * Describe the Climax of the Story: When his friends drink the water and turn young again, he saw what he didn’t want to see. They began to go through the mistakes they made when they were young before. **

** He changes over the course of the story by watching his now young friends go threw their young mistakes again making him feel and realize that he shouldn’t and doesn’t need to take the water himself. **
 * How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story? **

** The relationship is that his experiment wasn’t to test the water and to see if it actually works, it was to see if people would use it right and not get greedy. **
 * Describe the relationship between the title and the theme. **

** The main conflict helps illustrate the theme because the doctor is going against himself and at the end, the doctor realizes he doesn't want to drink the water because he doesn't want to repeat his mistakes just like his friends did when they drank it. **
 * How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme? **

** The climax helped him realize his choice and created 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): **


 * Simile: as black as ebony **


 * Metaphor: They were melancholy old creatures. **


 * Personification: The crushed and dried petals stirred, and assumed a deepening shade of crimson, as if the flower were reviving from a deep slumber. **


 * Symbol: I think the rose symbolizes his four friends. At first, the rose was dead and it seemed impossible for it to come alive and look beautiful again. But as it took in the water, just like his friends, it was a whole new rose, **


 * Foreshadowing (give both elements): When the rose started to turn old again after it had blossomed, it foreshadowed that the water was temporary and that the doctors friends would also go back to being old. **


 * Irony: When the doctor tells his friends to be careful and not to make the same mistakes as they did when they were young, they agree with him. But towards the end, they get greedy and make relive their past mistakes. **


 * Imagery: It was a dim, old-fashioned chamber, festooned with cobwebs, and be-sprinkled with antique dust. **


 * Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story. **

** The rel **** ationship between humanity and this story is very connected. Us humans can get greedy very easily and we have to think things through very carefully. This story shows how fast we can relive our mistakes and get off track. We have to choose very carefully. **


 * Questions #1,2,3,4,5,7 **


 * 1. I think the purpose of his experiment was to see how people would react and how they would control their wants when they drink the water from the fountain. **


 * 2. I think what they all had in common was that they all had a bad past and did things that they regret now. So they think that once they drink the water, everything will be fine. **


 * 3. I think the doctor doesn't go and drink it because after what he saw his friends do, he doesn’t want to make the same mistake. But his friends get really greedy and they are not as smart as he is and so they make the same mistakes they made before. **


 * 4. The narrator could be the doctor’s friend or may have heard this story from others, but he seemed to know it quite well so he could have been watching it from inside as a experiment assistant or just a friend helping. **


 * 5. In this story, they make it sound as though being old is bad and people are so desperate to be young again. I think being old isnt bad. You can tell past stories to younger kids and you would be very smart from all the learning and experiences you went through. **


 * 7 . I don’t think that kind of vaccine is necessary. You only get one life and you should live it well. It would be nice to see your future generation families and the future itself but we shouldn’t try to change life. It’s kind of like cheated and maybe some people might be able to afford it and some might which is also unfair to people who want it.  **

** Nice work! 25/25 **