By: Lucille Fletcher (Late 1930’s)

1. "The Hitchhiker" By: Lucille Fletcher (Late 1930’s) PowerPoint by: Kevin Shue, Jacob Stahlgren, And Andrew Riviello

2. LucilleFletcherMarch 28, 1912 — August 31, 2000Born in Brooklyn, New York

3. Protagonist Ronald Adams Antagonist Phantom Hitchhiker (Voice) CHARACTERS Minor Characters • Adams’s Mother • Orson Welles • Mechanic • Henry, a sleepy man • Woman’s Voice (Henry’s wife) • Mrs. Whitney • Hitchhiker Girl • Operator • Long-distance Operator • Albuquerque Operator • New York Operator

4. 6 Days/nights • Route 66 • Brooklyn, New York to Gallup, New Mexico • 1930’s Exposition

5. Complications • Ronald barely misses hitting the man on the bridge • Picks up the girl hitchhiker in Oklahoma • When Ronald “hears” and “sees” the phantom • The girl Ronald picked up could not see or hear the phantom • When he talks to the mechanic at the gas station about hitchhikers • When Ronald starts to see the phantom more frequently (every other mile)

6. CLIMAX WHEN RONALD DECIDES TO CALL HOME “HALL-OOO….HALL-OOOO….” -”Hitchhiker” page 663

7. Ronald finds that his mother was in the hospital Falling Actions • Mrs. Whitney tells Ronald that he was dead • Operator ends the call with Mrs. Whitney because of lack of money

8. Literary Devices

9. Mystery Who is the phantom and why is it following Ronald?

10. Foreshadowing The phantom following Ronald foreshadows his death.

11. Situational Irony Ronald thinks he is alive when he is reallydead.

12. The way the people speak in the radio play shows where they were born and live. Diction