Old man on the bridge by Ernest Hemingway Victoria Akers 1.B A. Comprehension questions: 1. Where was the old man sitting and why? The old man was sitting on a bench on the bridge. He has been evacuated from his home in San Carlos because of the Spanish civil war and because of the artillery. He has been walking a 12 kilometres‚ so he is tired. 2. What task did the narrator have to carry out? He had to explore the bridgehead and find out what point the enemy had advanced. 3. Why was the old man
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self-destruction originates by partaking in the evil acts Lord Henry has influenced him to perform. He was once a charming‚ kind‚ young boy who everyone loved‚ and evolved into a heartless man insensitive to the world around him. The personal life of Oscar Wilde was quite similar in certain aspects to Dorian Gray’s. There were things that separated them from the average person. Both were respectable men‚ who had tragedies in their lives and did something against popular belief to tarnish their reputations
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Themes‚ motifs and symbols in Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray The only published novel by Oscar Wilde‚ which appeared in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine in 1890‚ was seen as immoral and scandalous‚ so the editors of the magazine censored about five hundred words without Wilde’s knowledge. Even with that‚ the novel was not received very well. Disappointed with this‚ Wilde revised his novel‚ added a preface‚ where he explains his philosophy of art‚ and six new chapters. Since Wilde was devoted
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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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An Analysis of Ernest Hemingway’s "Cat in The Rain" In his frictional story‚ “Cat in the Rain‚” Ernest Hemingway sets the scene for his fiction in a hotel room in Italy on a rainy day. On the first reading of this short story it can be easily interpreted as a wife nagging her husband‚ who is lying in bed preoccupied reading a book. The young married American’s being in a foreign country on business or pleasure‚ (Hemingway does not say) one would expect that the expression of love would be more
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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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Ernest Rutherford was a New Zealand-born British physicist and chemist who was known as the father of nuclear physics. He studied at many colleges and universities including Havelock School‚ Nelson College‚ Canterbury College‚ The University of New Zealand‚ and The University of Cambridge. In 1908‚ he won the Nobel Prize in chemistry. His main contribution to physics was his invention of radio activity and the work he did with protons‚ neutrons‚ and electrons‚ where he concluded that an atom is mostly
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early newspaper training. He avoids the adjective whenever possible‚ but because he is a master at transmitting emotion without the flowery prose of his Victorian novelist predecessors‚ the effect is far more telling. In Observations on the Style of Ernest Hemingway‚ from "Contexts of Criticism" by Harry Levin (Harvard University Press‚ 1957)‚ the critic says: "Hemingway puts his emphasis on nouns because‚ among other parts of speech‚ they come closest to things. Stringing them along by means of conjunctions
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generation of men who served in World War 1 and the high proportion of men who died along the way. The men who survived the war came back destroyed‚ both physically and mentally‚ and no longer have faith in morality and in the goods of the people. Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises takes place in the time period after World War 1‚ depicting the negative consequences of the Lost Generation through the characters’ lives. The characters‚ Jake Barnes and his friends‚ live aimless lives by traveling
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Tone and Style in “Hills Like White Elephants” Ernest Hemingway is known for his sparse style of writing. In “Hills Like White Elephants” his style of writing is just that. “Hills Like White Elephants” exemplifies his style of writing along with a detailed description of the scenery and intense dialogue between the two main characters‚ the American man and Jig‚ throughout the story. Hemingway’s writing style‚ use of description‚ and dialogue enables the reader to figure out just what the man and
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