“Hills Like White Elephants” Analysis Ernest Hemingway’s‚ “Iceberg Theory”‚ states‚ “If a writer of prose knows enough of what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader‚ if the writer is writing truly enough‚ will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing
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“Indian Camp”‚ by Ernest Hemingway‚ is a short story of initiation in which young Nick Adams accompanies his father‚ a physician‚ on a call to and African American or “Indian” camp‚ where the father delivers a baby by Cesarean section using only his jack-knife. The violence and pain of the birth contrast sharply with the ease of the suicide of the pregnant women’s husband‚ which was brought on by her screams and introduce Nick to the realities of birth and death. At the beginning of the story‚
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on the psyches of soldiers. Soldiers often come home diagnosed with psychological disorders. They are affected mentally by their war experiences. Ernest Hemingway’s‚ “Soldier’s Home” portrays war in a realistic and raw perspective because it focuses on the war’s true capability to mentally damage and drastically change a soldier. Ernest Hemingway depicts war realistically in “Soldier’s Home” through the use of the character‚ Harold Krebs. The story starts off with an emotionally changed Krebs
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IN ANOTHER COUNTRY by Ernest Hemingway The text under analysis is taken from the short story “In another country” belonging to the pen of Ernest Hemingway‚ an American novelist and short story writer whose works are characterized by terse minimalism and understatement. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. “In another country” is a powerful and true-to-life story about real experience of many soldiers who came home after the World War I and their hardships. The text presents a
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Argument The short story Cat in the rain by Ernest Hemingway is one of my favorite pieces of short fiction written by an American writer. I read the story for the first time in my second year at the university and‚ ever since then‚ whenever I met people who shared my passion for literature‚ I bring up Cat in the rain. What puzzles me most is the uncertainty that I have regarding the cat. Is the cat that the American woman saw in the rain the same one with the cat that the innkeeper gave her at
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the quotation builds off of or proves what was said in the sentence immediately before it. For example: ORIGINAL: The shadow of a cloud moved across the field of grain and she saw the river through the trees. SMOOTHLY INTEGRATED QUOTATION: Hemingway uses the image of a momentary darkness to suggest the woman’s growing disillusionment. After her quarrel with the man‚ "[t]he shadow of a cloud moved across the field of grain . . ." (21). Rules for Using Quotes 2. Follow up your quotation! Avoid
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Soldier’s Home By Ernest Hemingway In the battlefield soldiers are experiencing war‚ death‚ loss – they kill and watch fellow soldiers getting killed. Being a soldier is in no way an easy life‚ and it is hard for people‚ who have not experienced war to understand. When these soldiers returns from war they need to adjust themselves to their old lives – adjust themselves to live in a place that has not change a tiny bit‚ even though they are in no way the same person as they were when they left
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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 were becoming outdated in the new economic‚ social and political conditions of an emerging fully industrialized world. The first half of the 20th century is then normally referred to in literary histories as ‘Modernism’‚ a very general term used to
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keep wives happy and rampant venereal diseases ripped through the middle class. In reaction to these developments the responsibilities of women began to shift. Instead of placing the responsibility on men to stay away from vices‚ suddenly it was the unrealistic expectation of women to create a home so perfect that it kept men from straying. Authors of the time contributed work that offered a social commentary on the guidelines given to the women of these times. Ernest Hemingway
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180410100004/CLASS A INTRODUCTION TO PROSE Lecture: Ari Jogaiswara Adipurwawidjana FIFTY GRAND This short story is one of the stories in Men Without Women‚ written by Ernest Hemingway‚ an American writer. I started to love every Hemingway’s short story since I reached this semester especially this short story‚ which is tells about boxing that is one of my favorite sport. I think Hemingway was a man’s man. He wrote everything covered both things that happened in World War I and World War II‚ he
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