Character+Sketch

The three character traits that I thought best represented Dave Conroy were bravery, ignorance and lonliness. In this assignment I will tell you why I think those traits best sum up Dave Conroy as a character and also how those character traits affected the outcome of the story. In a way his bravery cause his overall downfall and his choice to go out hunting at that time of year and his choices to pursue on when the obvious choice should have been to turn back. In the same way that his ignorance made him continue and continue almost as if he was tricking himself into thinking he was safer than he really was. Lastely his loneliness would have been the original reason he went out at that time of year because most people that have family's would not have gone.

The first character trait im going to talk about will be bravery. In this short story Dave Conroy is cleary a brave person in my opinion but it also eludes to that in the story itself. The story says that DAve is an experienced hunter right in the text and i beleive that because of this his mind set may have been that hes a hunter what could possibly go wrong? And because of this foolish blindness yet at the same time bravery to go out into the cold and battle the lements contributed to the final outcome of his death. The story also syas essentialy that anyone who would go out into the winter's harsh conditions at that time and in my opinion that cleary shows bravery of any person who goes out in the conditions when they are almost unbarable in addition to the fact that there were no other hunters going out that way aswell. Although that also led to his downfall, his bravery was very couragous but at the same time very foolish and led to him dying and thinking he was almost invincible when in reality he was just as human as the rest of us. So thats why i think that this character trait was the second most important because his bravery caused him to go out when he shouldnt have and pursue on when he really shouldnt have.

The second character trait i chose was lonliness. Although most people did not choose loneliness i think it was one of the key factors that led to Dave's death. The story tells us that Dave does not really have anyone that he cares for and in the same way that cares for him. So in essence he is all alone in the world and things like family do not hold him back. A hunter in his situation wiht a family most likely would have not gone out because it would have been to danngerous and would not want to risk their lives for the sake of the family, whereas the portagonist had no such barrier in his way. Although the character has friends he cleary does not keep in touch because he arrived at an abandoned burned down cabin so it shows that the only people he does care about he doesnt keep in touch with non the less. So he has almost no reason to live besides his work so he does not have as much concern for things that most people would have concern's about such as people. Thats why i chose lonliness as the protagonists third most important trait because it really did effect the course of the story. If he had a family he might not have gone out in the first place and if he had kept in touch he would have not arrived at a burned down login cabin aswell. Either of those things could have saved Dave's life but they did not because he was lonely.

My final trait im going to talk about is Dave Conroy's ignorance. The ignorance in the story causes him to push himself when he really cant go any farther and make stupid descisions when the smart one could have led to a much better outcome for himself. Like when he falls through the ice his ignorance makes him think he will be fine and nothing else will go wrong when really he should have just stayed put and make camp for the night but that character trait of his caused him to push on and lead to his eventual death. This happens several times in the story where Dave faces perilous obstacles and instead of making the smart descision he decides he man enough if you will to pursue on and get to his destination even though that is cleary not the smart descision. I beleive that this is the most important trait because he could have chose so many times to quite and make camp for the night but instead he pushes on and because he pushes on he changes the course of the story and all of those choices clearly lead to his death. Thats why I beleive it is the most important trait because it is the one that changes the story the most and has the biggest impact on the protagonists life being that he is killed.

So to summarize the protagonist faced my problems but some of his main character traits limited him and caused what I beleive to lead to his eventual death. His ignorance caused him to push on when the obvious choice was not to and caused him to make lets say regretable descisions. His bravery made him continue in his struggle even when it was too cold and too harsh even for the most experienced survivalist's. Finally his loneliness made it so he had no reason to turn back or stop, or to even consider who he couldbe hurting besides himself by making the descisions he did. And in all those ways thats why I chose those character traits as the protagonists most costly yet most important traits.

WOw. This is an entire essay. The assignment was to complete one paragraph! Avoid the use of "I" statements. Watch out for run-on and fragment sentences. Be sure to proof read carefully. 4.5﻿/6