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- 211: Old Man and the Sea: Themes of Santiago Against Nature, Figures of Christ and Relationships Between Characters
- ... characters, and finally the threat is fought off or it remains, leaving the reader in suspense. This had a good plot but needed more to go on in my opinion. Hemingway's strong parts of this story are emphasized on vocabulary. He probably learned these fisherman terms for he once was a fisherman in Cuba. There is one problem to this ... concept of vocabulary is a standard not to live by, and should not be placed into most books unless the terms are to be used many times throughout the book. Hemingway has merged three themes already mentioned above successfully unto this book. Among them are figures of Christ, Nature (the sea), and a code of honor. This was challenging. The obvious ...
- 212: Old Man and the Sea: Themes
- ... characters, and finally the threat is fought off or it remains, leaving the reader in suspense. This had a good plot but needed more to go on in my opinion. Hemingway's strong parts of this story are emphasized on vocabulary. He probably learned these fisherman terms for he once was a fisherman in Cuba. There is one problem to this ... concept of vocabulary is a standard not to live by, and should not be placed into most books unless the terms are to be used many times throughout the book. Hemingway has merged three themes already mentioned above successfully unto this book. Among them are figures of Christ, Nature (the sea), and a code of honor. This was challenging. The obvious ...
- 213: The Red Badge of Courage and A Farewell to Arms: The Main Characters
- ... the main character of the work does not exemplify the deeds and thought of a true hero. Two such works include Stephen Cranes' The Red Badge of Courage and Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. Both The Red Badge of Courage and A Farewell to Arms have war as the background of the story. War is the perfect setting in ... another mistake in the future. His last thought is "He was a man." A similar analogy of the protagonist not being the hero of the story is illustrated in Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. In this work, Frederic Henry, a lieutenant in the Italian army, thinks in a similar way to Henry Fleming. Frederic also has a strong tendency ...
- 214: Old Man and the Sea: Themes
- ... characters, and finally the threat is fought off or it remains, leaving the reader in suspense. This had a good plot but needed more to go on in my opinion. Hemingway's strong parts of this story are emphasized on vocabulary. He probably learned these fisherman terms for he once was a fisherman in Cuba. There is one problem to this ... concept of vocabulary is a standard not to live by, and should not be placed into most books unless the terms are to be used many times throughout the book. Hemingway has merged three themes already mentioned above successfully unto this book. Among them are figures of Christ, Nature (the sea), and a code of honor. This was challenging. The obvious ...
- 215: Gertrude Stein
- ... would still flock to Gertrude for advice and help on their work. The regulars would sometimes bring, or introduce by other means, young American writers in need of help. Ernest Hemingway, one of the young writers most influenced by Gertrude, was part of what she called “the lost generation.” Sent to her by Sherwood Anderson, she found him a good listener ... and this time, concentrate. Go out and look at things, see them, hear them, feel them, then write about the real thing- don’t write rumors” (Burnett 136). This inspired Hemingway, and when he came back the next year, it was evident that “he had begun to imitate her way of using words to circle back upon themselves so the reader ...
- 216: Francis Scott Fitzgerald
- ... Zelda's schizophrenia and her fifteen months in a Swedish sanitarium. This book has its characters showing symbolism of the pain that Fitzgerald rendered while taking care of Zelda. Ernest Hemingway and Fitzgerald were great friends throughout each others lives. Each wrote about each other in a symbolistic manner. It is said that Hemingway wrote about how Zelda's insanity caused Fitzgerald to lose sight of his writing. Fitzgerald moved to Hollywood in 1937 to work on movie scripts. There he wrote his Pat ...
- 217: Male Relations with Women
- Male Relations with Women Ever since the beginning of time, men have not known how to treat women. "Hills Like White Elephants", written by Ernest Hemingway, "Shiloh" written by Bobbie Ann Mason, "The Magic Barrel", written by Bernard Malamud and "The Yellow Wallpaper" written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, all bear out this point. Often women are ... handle women. These four short stories are all based on mans relationship with women, or often times, the absence of a relationship. In the story, "Hills like White Elephants" Ernest Hemingway lets the reader take a peek into two peoples lives. The feeling that one gets after having read the story is that the man is not sensitive to the girl ...
- 218: Virtues That Change Society In The Future
- ... most important of the list of virtues. My interpretation of this is that one should always keep a cool head no matter the situation. An example is the way that Hemingway portrays his characters in his novels, and short stories. In Hemingway's stories the character that is in a tough predicament seems to always handle the situation in stride, and maintains a cool head. This is a vital virtue to be ...
- 219: Contrasting Poets Lawrence and Shapiro in Their Views of Nature
- ... and love that most poets of that century do not. Karl Shapiro is another leading poet amongst the twentieth century. Shapiro was in World War II and, much like Ernest Hemingway, wrote primarily of war. His poems of war "disclose the ugliness of wartime world that has replaced the merely tawdry cheapness of prewar America. But, the naturally increased bitterness resulting ... was in the Romantic era. He has the passion and love that most do not. iV. Karl Shapiro A. Views of Nature 1. He was in WW2 and, much like Hemingway, wrote of war. 2. He wrote numerous satires. 3. His war poems "disclose the ugliness of wartime world that has replaced the merely tawdry of prewar America." (Magill, 1680) 4 ...
- 220: The Running of the Bulls
- ... fighting to be free in the arena, it is a bull fight with weapons. All you see are a few dark spots in a white and red filled arena. Ernest Hemingway made this event famous in his book "The Sun Also Rises" where he wrote, "The fiesta was really started. It kept up day and night for seven days. The dancing ... the noise went on. The things that happened could only have happened during a fiesta. Everything became quite unreal finally and it seemed as though nothing could have any consequences. Hemingway had put it into words which truly described the feeling you get when you attend the running of the bulls. Well, that is what the running of the bulls is ...
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