By: Lucille Fletcher(Late 1930’s)

PowerPoint by:

Kevin Shue,

Jacob Stahlgren,

And Andrew Riviello

Lucille FletcherMarch 28, 1912 — August 31,

2000Born in Brooklyn, New York

CHARACTERS

Protagonist• Ronald Adams

Antagonist• Phantom

Hitchhiker (Voice)

•Adams’s Mother

•Orson Welles

•Mechanic

•Henry, a sleepy man

•Woman’s Voice (Henry’s wife)

•Mrs. Whitney

Minor Characters•Hitchhiker Girl

•Operator

•Long-distance Operator

•Albuquerque Operator

•New York Operator

•6 Days/nights•Route 66•Brooklyn, New York to Gallup, New Mexico

•1930’s

Complications

1. Ronald barely misses hitting the man on the bridge

2. Picks up the girl hitchhiker in Oklahoma

3. When Ronald “hears” and “sees” the phantom

4. The girl Ronald picked up could not see or hear the phantom

5. When he talks to the mechanic at the gas station about hitchhikers

6. When Ronald starts to see the phantom more frequently (every other mile)

CLIMAX

WHEN RONALD DECIDES TO CALL HOME

“HALL-OOO….HALL-OOOO….”-”Hitchhiker” page 663

Falling Actions

•Ronald finds that his mother was in the hospital

•Mrs. Whitney tells Ronald that he was dead

•Operator ends the call with Mrs. Whitney because of lack of money

Literary Devices

Mystery

Who is the phantom and why is it following Ronald?

Foreshadowing

The phantom following Ronald

foreshadows his death.

Situational Irony

Ronald thinks he is alive when he is really dead.

The way the people speak in the radio play shows where

they were born and live.