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- 121: Critical Biography On J. D. Salinger
- ... role in what would ultimately be the basis of most of Salinger's short stories. World War II is also where Salinger met one of his major literary influences, Ernest Hemingway. Although Salinger's style stems from Hemingway, their first encounter was not one that sat well on Salingers's mind. The story goes that while Hemingway was serving as an author-correspondent, he visited Salinger's regiment "and that Salinger became disgusted when Hemingway shot the head off a chicken to demonstrate the merits of ...
- 122: The Old Man And The Sea
- The book The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, is about an old man, Santiago, and his genuine fondness of the sea. Every day he travels out to sea to go fishing which is his occupation. For the past ... to sea as usual, and this is the day that changes Santiago s life forever. He hooks an unusually immense marlin, and they have an agonizing battle for several days. Hemingway often compares Santiago with the younger fisherman and describes various particular parts about the beautiful sea. This allows the reader to learn that Santiago especially loves the sea and is unlike the other fisherman. While Santiago is going out to sea on the first morning, Hemingway includes numerous details about the setting. Some of the details are to inform the reader that the old man really enjoys and values the ocean. One way which Hemingway ...
- 123: Martin Williams' Play: "Past Meridian"
- ... hour? Martin Williams tries to answer this question in a hypothetical play called "Past Meridian." His answer is an hour of exhausting and intense dialogue between a recreation of Ernest Hemingway and Tennessee Williams. But they don't come together as authors, they come together as humans who have been riddled by their own struggles and left alone, so they believe ... his southern accent. Finally, his father was an alcoholic who abused him, therefore he was loyal to his mother. All of these aspects define the character of Tennessee Williams. Ernest Hemingway was a man who believes that he differs greatly from Tennessee Williams, but comes to realize that they share a common battle. Ernest Hemingway was depicted as a man who enjoys being a traditional man - - drinking beer and relaxing as a male on this earth. On the other hand Tennessee Williams is a ...
- 124: A Farewell To Arms Is A Classi
- Although the book, A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway was not the type of book that had an exciting page-turning story, it can nevertheless be called a classic. A classic has been defined as a book that lasts ... would not. Don t let her die. Oh, God, please don t let her die. I ll do anything for you if you won t let her die... p.330. Hemingway went on for an entire paragraph of him pleading with God. This is how he is able to show that Mr. Henry loves her more than anything, more than life ... window at the wet country. p.217. In this scene, he has been thinking of Cat and he decided that it would be best to drink his troubles away. When Hemingway said that the land was wet , it usually meant that Mr. Henry was drunk. After Catherine and the baby died at the hospital, Mr. Henry walked home in the ...
- 125: A Farewell To Arms Is A Classi
- Although the book, A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway was not the type of book that had an exciting page-turning story, it can nevertheless be called a classic. A classic has been defined as a book that lasts ... would not. Don t let her die. Oh, God, please don t let her die. I ll do anything for you if you won t let her die... p.330. Hemingway went on for an entire paragraph of him pleading with God. This is how he is able to show that Mr. Henry loves her more than anything, more than life ... window at the wet country. p.217. In this scene, he has been thinking of Cat and he decided that it would be best to drink his troubles away. When Hemingway said that the land was wet , it usually meant that Mr. Henry was drunk. After Catherine and the baby died at the hospital, Mr. Henry walked home in the ...
- 126: A Study In Contrast The Views
- ... of great confusion, women were faced with choices unheard of before, and having to fight against what they had been taught their entire lives. Characters like Brett Ashley from Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises “presented the image of the short-skirted, shimmying, seductive, sleek femininity promising unprecedented freedom for the twentieth-century.” Others characters like Catherine Barkley, A Farewell to Arms, presented a more conservative Victorian way of life, akin to a male dominant world. These, Hemingway’s most famous female characters, are reflective in their contrast to the decaying Victorian society of the 1800’s and the feminist movement of the early 1900’s. Hemmingway’s ... has gone and where the choice for women now remains. Bibliography - The Sun Also Rises - A Students Companion to the Novel, - Michael Reynolds, (work study) - Published by twain publishers - Ernest Hemingway and the Arts, - Emily Watts - Copy right, Library of congress, 1971 - Hemingway’s First War - Michael Reynolds - Published 1987, by Basil Blackwell ltd. - Hemingway: The writer as artist - Carlos ...
- 127: The Sun Also Rises 4
- In 1926 a man named Ernest Hemingway wrote a novel that illustrates the effects of war on the Lost Generation; specifically, on one man named Jake Barnes. This novel is titled "The Sun Also Rises". The Lost ... s state of mind with him to a point, then instead of helping him work through his pain, by perhaps discussing it further, he tells him to have a drink. Hemingway writes: Bill. What's the matter? Feel low? Jake. Low as hell. Bill. Have another absinthe. Here, waiter! Another absinthe for this senor. Jake. I feel like hell, I said. Bill. Drink that, Bill said. Drink it slow(Hemingway,226). The reader can interpret Bill's advice to drink the alcohol slowly as a suggestion that the alcohol will somehow manage to ease Jake's pain. This is ...
- 128: Soldiers Home
- ... BROKEN HEART He knew he could never get through it all again. "Soldier's Home" "I don't want to go through that hell again." In the works of Ernest Hemingway, that which is excluded is often as significant as that which is included; a hint is often as important and thought-provoking as an explicit statement. This is why we ... son's struggles and sufferings caused by the war. She devotes herself to her religion and never questions her own values; she manipulates her son. She is one of the Hemingway "bitch mothers" who also appear in "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife"and "Now I Lay Me." Her sermons to her son lack any power to heal his spiritual wounds. She has determined that Krebs should live in God's "Kingdom," find a job, and get married like a normal local boy . Although Hemingway locates the story in Oklahoma and excludes it from the Nick Adams group, the husband and wife relationship observed in"Soldier's Home"is also similar to those in " ...
- 129: The Old Man And The Sea -x
- ... In the story Santiago s bravery is unsurpassed but it is not until he hooks the "great fish" that we truly see his valor and perseverance. Through Santiago s actions Hemingway teaches the reader about bravery and perseverance in the face of adversity. He demonstrates that even when all is lost and seems hopeless a willful heart and faith will overcome ... greatest lessons that Santiago gives is that of a simple faith. "Have faith in the Yankees my son" (pg.84). This type of faith reflects the basic principles of Christianity. Hemingway s description of Santiago further illustrates Christian symbolism. Hemingway gives a reference to the nail-pierced hands of Christ by stating that Santiago s "hands had deep creased scars" (pg.247). Hemingway also parallels Santiago s suffering to ...
- 130: A Study In Contrast The Views Of Catherine Barkley And Brett
- ... of great confusion, women were faced with choices unheard of before, and having to fight against what they had been taught their entire lives. Characters like Brett Ashley from Ernest Hemingway s The Sun Also Rises presented the image of the short-skirted, shimmying, seductive, sleek femininity promising unprecedented freedom for the twentieth-century. Others characters like Catherine Barkley, A Farewell to Arms, presented a more conservative Victorian way of life, akin to a male dominant world. These, Hemingway s most famous female characters, are reflective in their contrast to the decaying Victorian society of the 1800 s and the feminist movement of the early 1900 s. Hemmingway s ... has gone and where the choice for women now remains. Bibliography - The Sun Also Rises - A Students Companion to the Novel, - Michael Reynolds, (work study) - Published by twain publishers - Ernest Hemingway and the Arts, - Emily Watts - Copy right, Library of congress, 1971 - Hemingway s First War - Michael Reynolds - Published 1987, by Basil Blackwell ltd. - Hemingway: The writer as artist - Carlos ...
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