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    In “Soldier’s Home” by Ernest Hemingway‚ the character’s emotions and behavior is most significant. The main character‚ Krebs describes his time since he has been home and expresses his emotions and thoughts as he comes back to regular life. He has a tough time with this however. When he first got home‚ he was willing to try and re-enter society‚ yet nobody wanted to hear the truth about what happened. They all wanted lies. Hemingway wrote‚ “ Later he felt the need to talk but no one wanted to hear

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    In This story Hills Like White Elephants‚ Ernest Hemingway enlightens the fragility of and emotional emptiness of the relationship between the couple and their relationship that is threatened by the interjection of an unborn child.“Hills Like White Elephants” we see that the writer has portrayed many different symbols and literary devices. Right from the start we have a simile in the title of the short story where the word “like” is used in the title. The comparison of a different words used in the

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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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    Iceberg Model The Iceberg Model has been used in systems thinking. It explains that an iceberg only exposes 10% of its mass above water while 90% of its mass is hidden below the surface. Similarly‚ an individual competence is analogous to an Iceberg Model because there are both observable and hidden components. (Refer to Illustration 1) The observable components would be the individual’s knowledge and skills while the hidden components include values‚ self-image and motives. (Refer to Illustration

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    The topic of "Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway continues to be a hot button issue‚ even 90 years after the story’s publication. Though not as scandalous as it must have been in 1927‚ it remains the subject of great debate. In this short story‚ two lovers are awaiting a train that will whisk them away to Madrid for the purpose of an abortion. Even though the decision was made before arriving at the station‚ they continue to debate whether she will go through with it. The man’s persuasive

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    Ernest Hemingway has written a short story that has all thinking. The short story‚ Hills like White Elephants can have many different viewpoints and they all seem to make sense! There are three main scenarios that fit the story‚ the girl will have the abortion and stay with the man‚ she’ll have the abortion and leave the man or she will not have the abortion and the man will stay with her (Hashmi 72). Hills like White Elephants is about an American man and a girl waiting at a train station that will

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    interest‚ individuality‚ and expression. In a word‚ art is life. Ernest Hemingway never fails to enlighten readers with his literary genius. Through his craft of short stories‚ Hemingway masters the use of literary elements using a combination of his imagination and real life experiences. He struggled with love‚ settling down‚ alcoholism‚ and his memories of war; converting his emotional instability to literary masterpieces. Hemingway is known for using minimal detail throughout his works‚ leaving

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    Elephants”‚ Ernest Hemingway brings the reader to a train station somewhere between Barcelona and Madrid. An American and a girl are having an argument that could be seen as trivial on the surface‚ but is actually a painful discussion about aborting their child. The much older American tries to persuade the young girl to give the baby up in hopes that he might be able to leave her without any obligations left behind‚ but she seems to want to keep the child and start a life together. Hemingway uses symbolism

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    In “A Clean‚ Well-Lighted Place” by Ernest Hemingway begins with the two waiters working late at night and watching an old man from afar drinking his brandy. One waiter‚ who was young‚ was waiting anxiously for the old man to leave so he can go home and sleep. Whereas‚ the older waiter who also works there‚ was being patient and did not seem to mind that the old man was sitting alone in the Cafe late at night. As the waiters were watching the old man ‚ one of the waiters said that the old man tried

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    experience fear‚ terror‚ or helplessness (McNulty). Many men and women who return from a war suffer from this including characters from Ernest Hemingway’s stories like Harold Krebs from "Soldier’s Home." The story revolves around the character named Harold Krebs who has just returned from war as a distant and unapproachable man with PTSD (Hemingway). When Ernest Hemingway returned from World War I‚ he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Lohano and El-mallakh state that PTSD has a certain relationship

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