Hemingway uses a variety of literary techniques to produce a sense of ambiguity in the reader in Cat in the Rain. He starts by using rain to evoke feelings such as melancholy and emptiness in the reader. He then uses techniques such as characterization‚ repetition and symbolisms to express feelings in the characters and to further develop the text. Through her actions and words‚ we may find that the American wife is probably the most pivotal character throughout the text. In fact‚ what seems to be
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The Old Man and the Sea is a novel with infinite interpretations. In fact‚ one of the most remarkable aspects of this book is its ability to allow the readers to construe the piece any way they see fit. It is written in such a way that the audience can have their own personal take on it‚ regardless to what Ernest Hemmingway was trying to say. The Old Man and the Sea can be inspirational to anyone willing to decide for themselves what it means. The readers are immediately drawn into Santiago’s story
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should share these with your fellow students and post your findings in the forum. I would like you to make a collection of images and to annotate these describing your thoughts about them. You should link your notes to the key aspects of the post-modernist movement we highlighted. Try to find examples which you think demonstrate these key aspects. One of the main aspects of post-modernism is that it has no specific ’rules’ and therefore you will always find examples that are difficult to define
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Characters’ Discourse and Narrator’s Discourse The creation of first and secondary narratives which can be used to explain the doubling of the story in Hemingway‟s short stories is a function also of the act of narration (“narrating instance” in Genette) and of the presence of a narrator who produces them. In fact‚ it is exactly the presence of a narrator who produces a narrative text that makes our analysis of narrative discourse possible. Or Genette the “narrating situation is” like any other
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"In Indian Camp Nick learns the divergent reactions of men and women in addressing a common goal" In Hemingway’s short story "Indian Camp" we witness Nick’s transition from an innocent child into a curious young adult. Throughout the story we encounter many topics‚ like adolescence‚ love‚ maturity‚ innocence‚ fatherhood‚ and suicide. The subject that predominates‚ however‚ is the different reactions of men and women addressing the same goal. Nick and his doctor father enter an unknown‚ unexplored
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Attitudes Towards War in A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway was one of the most influential writers of the Modern period. After being rejected from the army‚ Hemingway entered the war in 1917 as an ambulance driver on the Italian front. Hemingway’s relationship with the war could have been his reason for writing his novel A Farewell to Arms. A Farewell to Arms takes place in Italy in World War I. The novel tells of the conflicts of an American ambulance driver on the Italian
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who have decisions to make. They will go through an important stage in any relationship‚ the make it or break it stage. The two stories that I will be analyzing will be “Desiree’s Baby” by Kate Chopin and “Hills like White Elephants” by Earnest Hemingway. In both stories the characters found out how babies can be a deciding factor in a relationship‚ and that’s what I will be focusing on. In “Desiree’s Baby” the morale of the story is “we often get into trouble when we assume” (Mayer‚ Gary H.). The
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classify the years from 1900 to about 1965 as the Modernist period. During this period‚ society at every level underwent profound changes. War and industrialization seemed to devalue the individual. Global communication made the world a smaller place. The pace of change was dizzying. Writers responded to this new world in a variety of ways. Individualism In Modernist literature‚ the individual is more interesting than society. Specifically‚ modernist writers were fascinated with how the individual
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The short pieces Monday and Tuesday by Virginia Woolf and A Clean‚ Well-Lighted Place by Ernest Hemingway are both proper examples of Modernist writing. Generally‚ the two stories contain very ambiguous‚ or seemingly non-existent‚ themes‚ which complement their pieces. The authors both achieve this by not really having an obvious protagonist‚ having this character be without motive or a subjective opinion of their situation‚ and finishing the piece with unresolved ending and meaning. Virginia Woolf’s
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society Who are the most prominent modernist authors? ➢ T.S. Eliot ➢ Virginia Woolf ➢ Ernest Hemingway ➢ William Faulkner ➢ Ezra Pound ➢ James Joyce ➢ W.B. Yeats ➢ F. Scott Fitzgerald* While Fitzgerald wrote during the modernist era and while he uses themes of disillusionment‚ he tends to retain a more classic style than those of his contemporaries. What are some stylistic features of modernist literature? ➢ a radical disruption
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