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    The Lost Generation: Expatriates in Paris “The Lost Generation” is a group of artists that left America because they were disillusioned and disgusted by the quickly developing consumerism and materialistic desires found in America during the 1920s.(Sarah Ferrell) The people of the 1920s had been shaped and molded by the vicious‚ and basically pointless‚ World War I. Their lives had evolved and been formed to fit the war‚ and when it ended their morals‚ mentality‚ and skills no longer fit into “normal”

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    His focus on his work as art ignores the autobiographical and psychological content he depended upon to develop characters. His characters are judged by the female characters of the short stories in the same way Hemingway was judged by his wives. Ernest Hemingway wrote stories about autobiographical‚ male characters that lacked maturity as judged by female characters. He exhibited this in his married life and it may have contributed to his risk taking in war as well as his suicide. As one of the

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    When reading an Ernest Hemingway novel‚ one must try very hard to focus on the joy and encouragement found in the work. For Whom the Bell Tolls is full of love and beauty‚ but is so greatly overshadowed by this lingering feeling of doom--a feeling that does not let you enjoy reading‚ for you are always waiting for the let down‚ a chance for human nature to go horribly awry. This feeling is broken up into three specific areas. In Ernest Hemingway’s novel‚ For Whom the Bell Tolls‚ humanity is exploited

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    In the short story “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway it can be assumed that the girl Jig gets an abortion and does not stay together with the American considering the amount of conflict they have shown in the text. Jig seems a lot younger than the American‚ since she is referred to as girl in the story. Also‚ she seems like she wants to have the abortion. Example from the text‚ “I’ll do it and everything will be fine (Ernest Hemingway)”. However‚ she is still unsure about it since

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    Alienation Paper The novels The Old Man and the Sea and The Sun Also Rises are both written by Ernest Hemingway. Some of the aspects of the stories are similar‚ and some are different. Each book presents a character that has been alienated‚ but the method used to present the character varies. The most obvious similarity between the two books is the author. This similarity leads to several others since Hemingway seems to have a certain writing style that can be found in all of his works. For

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    Throughout time‚ many books have been challenged or banned. Most of the time‚ it is parents banning books with content that they don’t want their child to be reading. For example‚ a war novel‚ A Farewell to Arms‚ has been challenged for some of its content but it also has positive aspects to the story. In A Farewell to Arms‚ the main character‚ Frederic Henry‚ starts out in the Italian front as an ambulance driver. Eventually‚ he goes and meets a hospital nurse named Catherine Barkley with his good

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    story. An excellent example to show the use of symbolism in a story is “Hill like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway. The symbolism found in Ernest Hemingway’s work have not only have a use in the story but also can interpret something such as an object or thought very deeply and from a different point of view. Throughout the story‚ the uses of symbolism in “Hills like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway show how much impact symbols have in a story. The basic plot of the story is two people who

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    learned the vital importance of being earnest." This conclusion brings the reader to wonder‚ does a tiger ever change it’s stripes? Does the truth actually set one free? And did Jack really ever tell the truth about himself? It is clear that Jack‚ Ernest‚ or whatever you want to call him‚ never learned the importance of being earnest. To begin‚ not Jack’s‚ nor anyone’s‚ personality can drastically change in a few minutes; to say that it can is popostperous. In Wilde’s "The Impotance of Being Earnest

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    035 Professor Moran December 16th‚ 2012 Outside The Cabinet Makers/ A Day’s Wait The Authors F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway are both writers of the mid 1920s and mid 1950s. Both evolved from the same literary time and place‚ but both created their readings in two very different literary styles. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Outside the Cabinet Maker and Ernest Hemingway’s A Day’s Wait are two perfect examples of how their works differ as well as have some similarities. Two distinct similarities

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    html “The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: Critical Essays” By Benton “New Essays on Hemingway’s Short Fiction” Edited by Paul Smith “Hemingway’s Short Stories” By De Falco “Ernest Hemingway” by Earl Rovit & Gerry Brenner http://www.enotes.com/snows-kilimanjaro-essays/snows-kilimanjaro-ernest-hemingway Nick Kalscheuer 5/13/2013 Overly‚ English 101 The Snows of Kilimanjaro “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” written by Ernest Hemingway starts out in Africa

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