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Hills Like White Elephants
475 wordsSetting is important to every story, but the setting used by Hemmingway in "Hills Like White Elephants" adds so much to the meaning of the story, providing an interesting read. His use of the setting to convey the idea of fertility and barrenness helps to generate an understanding of what the story is about, even though he never comes right out and says "It's about abortion. " The language used at the beginning of the story is simple and straightforward, telling the reader that the place is the ...
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Including Ernest Hemmingway Grace Under Pressure Life
684 wordsErnest Hemmingway was not only a great American writer but he was also a great showman. His shameless self-promotion made him a celebrity beyond the world of literature. Although his life was a normal one as a child, Hemmingway developed into a great writer and with that he got recognition from the world, which he traveled constantly. Despite his decent upbringing and success in life, in the later years of his life, The Oak Park neighborhood of Chicago was an average place to live and grow up in...
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Clean Well Lighted Place Story Takes Place
1,063 words"A Clean Well-Lighted Place, " by Ernest Hemmingway A Clean Well-Lighted Place, written by Ernest Hemmingway, takes place after 2 am in a Spanish caf where the characters a young waiter and an older waiter work, and a deaf man is a regular customer. The title, A Clean Well-Lighted Place, refers to the caf where the story takes place. The night (or early morning) this story takes place, the young waiter is in a rush to get home to his wife. Although the caf is not closed yet, the young waiter lie...
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Ernest Hemmingway Key West
626 wordsWrestling with Hemmingway in a Dream-Hallucination I sat outside of the Hogsbreath Saloon with my chin in my hand and a newspaper with a headline about Ernest Hemmingway's life being celebrated this coming week in Key West. It was a hot afternoon and I was groggy after being drunk the night before and I wanted to be in my bed, but the little room that my friends and I rented was like an oven in the afternoon tropical heat. I was in Florida on vacation with three of my high school friends and we ...
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Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemmingway
882 wordsThis is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper. " (T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Men) "but a whimper. ", Eliot was writing of the Lost Generation. The period after World War I were people were disillusioned, wandering through their life lost, not sure what their goal was. In Ernest Hemmingway's novel, The Sun Also Rises, the Lost Generation and their inability to cope with the change around them is the focus of the novel. T...
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Sailor In Shipwrecked Sailor Sailor In Shipwrecked Sea
621 wordsIn the stories, The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemmingway and "Shipwrecked Sailor" by Gabriel Garcia Marques, there are so many similarities, like their losses and their love for the creatures of the sea, that it its eerie. Although, there are many similarities, there are also some differences, such as the main characters' love for the creatures of the sea. There are more similarities in these stories than differences, in my opinion. A difference between Santiago in The Old Man and the Sea an...
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Farewell To Arms Frederic Henry
628 wordsA code hero is someone who acts on his own despite what the people around him say or do. Ernest Hemmingway, the author of the novel A Farewell to Arms, not only sees a code hero as someone who acts on his own, but who also acts in a very masculine manner. Lieutenant Frederic Henry, the main character in the novel, is considered to be a code hero. Through Frederic Henrys behavior, actions, and traits, he fits the description of a code hero. Through Frederic Henrys behavior one gets the impression...
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Lady With The Pet Dog Introduction To Literature
839 wordsThe Greatest Gamble Love is determined by a strong affection, a warm attachment, by complete satisfaction, as well as happiness. Love is a key issue found in society. Everyone seeks love. With true love, comes happiness, pleasure and a feeling of satisfaction in life. It has many obstacles that one will have to hurdle. It is worth every minute. The happiness and the pain are like exercises for my heart, each time leaving it in better shape than before (Heart 1). Love is a gamble, that is taken k...
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Ernest Hemmingway Oak Park
858 wordsHemmingway's Literary Influences As one of Americas greatest writers, Ernest Hemmingway recounted his personal life experiences to create his novels. Hemmingway lead an interesting life, filled with romance, travel, and adventure. It was this lifestyle that provided him with much of the material that he used to write his greatest novels. Writing was more of a story telling exercise for Hemmingway, because he had firsthand experience at most of what he wrote about. Hemmingway was also influenced ...
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F Scott Fitzgerald Side Of Paradise
777 wordsF. Scott Fitzgerald F. Scott Fitzgerald is in many ways one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century. In his first novel, This Side of Paradise, Fitzgerald epitomized the mindset of an era with the statement that his generation had, grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, and all faiths in man shaken (Fitzgerald 307). Aside from being a major literary voice of the twenties and thirties, Fitzgerald was also among The Lost Generations harshest and most insightful so...
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First Person Narrative Farewell To Arms
2,358 wordsDiscuss how Ernest Hemmingway and Louis De Bernieres present the effects of war on the individual in A Farewell to Arms and Captain Corelli s Mandolin. Although some critics disapprove of De Bernieres portrayal of life in Greece during world war two (1), in particular his depiction of the Germans, there is no doubt that he succeeds in bringing to life the hideous and brutal world that he sets out to create, They fell to their knees, their hands flailing. their mouths filling with the dry and dus...
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Men And Women Northern Lights
948 wordsTim O? Brien, a contemporary American novelist and short story writer of immense, imaginative power, freely admits that the Vietnam War was the dark, jarring experience that made him a writer. O? Brien served in Vietnam with the Fifth Battalion, Forty-six infantry from January 1969 to March 1970. He patrolled some of the most active and brutal sites of the war and it definitely showed in the settings of his writing. Before his induction into the army, O? Brien felt traumatized on the decision of...
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Meaning Of Life Falls In Love
674 wordsThe World All Unreal in the Dark Escapism is a characters way of trying to abandon something that discourages or frightens that character. Escapism is a form of betrayal and can often be described as a manner of deserting the fears of the character. When a character does not face his fears, it is likely that the character will look for a way to escape their troubles. Ernest Hemmingway's story, A Farewell to Arms, shows that the main character is faced with problems he believes he cannot cope wit...
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Farewell To Arms Miss Barkley
597 wordsOne of the best novels of Ernest Hemingway is A Farewell to Arms. Hemingway takes much of his life story to his novels. A Farewell to Arms is the typical classic story that can refer to Romeo and his Juliet placed against the odds. In this novel, Romeo is Frederick Henry and Juliet is Catherine Barkley. Their love affair must survive the barrier of World War I. The background of war-torn Italy adds to the tragedy of the love story. The story starts when Frederick Henry is serving in the Italian ...
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Zora Neale Hurston Spanish Civil War
961 wordsThe Artists of the Harlem Renaissance and the Lost Generation diverged from the mainstream to begin separate cultures. Harlem was an area in New York with an extensive African American population. During the 20 s poets, writers and musicians like Langston Hughes, Claude Mckay and Zora Neale Hurston made the Harlem area the center of black art and culture. The lost generation was based mainly in Paris, France. It consisted of war torn men who could not re-enter society after World War I. In Europ...
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Spanish Civil War Bell Tolls
1,632 wordsThe novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is based on Ernest Hemmingway's own experiences in the Spanish Civil War in the 1930 s. This novel depicts how irony and love get in the way of a war and how devastating these affects can be. The experiences Hemmingway had here gave a base for his lifelong fascination with war. Surviving World War I, he later fought in the Greek-Turkish war as well in 1920. What we might not expect is that he also went through World War II and the Spanish Civil War in 1937, the ...
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Hills Like White Elephants Beginning Of The Story
848 wordsHills Like White Elephants By Ernest Hemmingway In many works of literature the reader finds that a story is difficult to understand until he / she is approaching the end. At that time the reader discovers either proof of his / her assumptions or evidence that cancels out original opinions. Such is true with Ernest Hemmingway s Hills Like White Elephants. In the beginning of the story, the reader is presented with a conversation between two people that is very awkward. The dialogue they use is u...
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Point Of View Santiago
619 wordsBook Report on Old Man and the Sea Title: Old Man in the Sea Author: Ernest Hemmingway Publication: Simon and Schuster, Inc. in New York, NY. Theme: It doesn? t matter if you succeed as long as you try and enjoyed the attempt. Also even if you don? t succeed, its only important if you have the will to try again. If you have the will to try again good things will happen. Santiago supported this theme because for eighty-four days straight he hadn? t caught one fish but day after day he would go ou...
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Live His Life Robert Jordan
1,473 wordsErnest Hemmingway uses his characters to invoke a variety of thoughts and ideas in the readers mind. Each characters action defines their individual personalities and belief systems. The main focus of For Whom the Bell Tolls center upon the life of Robert Jordan, a military explosives specialist, whose sole purpose in the Spanish Revolution is the demolition of strategic bridges, trains, and various other targets. His interactions with various characters help to define his personality and belief...
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Constant Struggle Hearted River
312 wordsThe themes of alienation and isolation go hand in hand with the role nature plays in Ernest Hemmingway s short story The Big Two-Hearted River. Nick Adams, whose life and personality parallels that of Hemmingway, constantly retreats to nature to find a quiet place of reflection and self-examination. These moments of isolation are those in which Hemmingway goes into immense detail to describe every action of Nick and the rare occasion of whoever may be with him. In The Big Two Hearted River, natu...
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