“Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway is a short story about a man known as the American and a girl named Jig who are a couple. Both are at a train station in Barcelona surrounded by hills waiting for the train to take them to Madrid. The weather was warm and the couple sat outside the station at a bar to order beer. All of a sudden Jig looks at the landscape and says that the hills look like white elephants to which the American man answers that he has never seen one. After the first
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Analyzing "A Clean‚ Well-Lighted Place" by Ernest Hemingway 28 years prior to his own death by committing suicide Ernest Hemingway wrote a short story named A Clean‚ Well-Lighted Place posing as an excerpt from the life of a presumably middle-aged waiter‚ who has to deal with an elder customer and the reactions to this man from a younger colleague. Born in Oak Park‚ Illinois in 1899 Hemingway first attended college before becoming a reporter for a short period of time. He then enlisted with
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MODERNISM (1901-1945) Modernism‚ in its broadest definition‚ is modern thought‚ character‚ or practice. More specifically‚ the term describes a set of cultural tendencies and movements‚ originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century’s. The term encompasses the activities and output of those who felt the "traditional" forms of art‚ architecture‚ literature‚ religious faith‚ social organization and daily life
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Kerseboom English 5V January 4‚ 2013 Religious aspects of the novel A Farewell to Arms A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway presents the nada and the nature of the universe. It also shows aspects of an anti-war novel. The protagonist of the book‚ Frederick Henry‚ betrays his love for nurse Catherine Barkley. This relationship represents Henry’s character as a typical Hemingway hero. He is an egoist and he is passive towards his wife Catherine. The character has recognized and accepted the
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Comparison about Hemingway’s Short-Fiction Stories Ernest Hemingway is a well-known American author. He is known for his iceberg technique or also known as the iceberg theory. There might be a possibility that throughout our lives we have read some of Hemingway’s fiction stories through our high school and college years. His iceberg technique means that the immediate events have very little context or interpretation. That basically means that there is more to what you have to read‚ and in a way
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Alyssa Colletti FYW- 101 Professor Timmons April 15‚ 2013 The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21‚ 1899 in Oak Port‚ Illinois. Throughout his high school career he excelled in sports‚ and English class. For fun Hemingway enjoyed the outdoors‚ which got him into fishing and camping. When he graduated he started to work for The Kansas City Star as a junior reporter. Hemingway got his style of writing from the Kansas City Star’s Style Guide for writing: “use short sentences
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mojo‚ his smooth talk with the ladies‚ and that insane chest hair. Harry Tasker has those chiseled features‚ gigantic arms‚ and that spotless white shirt. They all have special qualities that make them appealing to women. F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway both portray their men like these super spies. In a few of their stories‚ the men who are present need to have traditional masculine qualities to get women. The two writers make it seem like it is necessary to have an athletic body‚ survival
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Life Changing Events Ernest Hemingway in “ Soldier’s Home” represents the life of Harold Krebs as an example of the effects on people and communities as well as a country as a whole caused by wars. There appears to be a blatant lack of respect for the main character from family and friends. This lack of respect is shown through the author’s discussion of a lack of empathy‚ confidence‚ and lack of placement. Hemingway shows the reader a view of the returning soldier from war and his clear displacement
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Ernest Hemingway’s Spanish Civil War era stories‚ “The Capital of the World‚” “A Clean Well-Lighted Place‚” and sections of For Whom the Bell Tolls results in some of his greatest writings. Hemingway depicts Spain’s most important values and qualities: dignity‚ decorum‚ and courage. He does so metaphorically and often times reveals the big ideas through the little details. In “The Capital of the World‚” the second-rate matadors stay at a hotel called the Pension Luarca. “It is necessary for a bull
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Based on the stories I studied in the collection The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway‚ it seems Ernest Hemingway had a very naturalistic and pessimistic view of life. His stories often emphasize gruesome violence and tragic deaths or the pain the world has to offer in different places‚ such as lifelong shortcomings of character or tumultuous relationships. Naturalism is evident in that characters are never the masters of their fate. For good or for bad the world does not let on what’s in
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