... in doing one thing, obviously, they have opposite point of view in that issue. However, I changed my opinion that after I realized it is a story about abortion. In my perspective, Ernest Hemingway was making a great metaphor on this story and using a dialogue to express two different points of view on abortion. Actually, their conversation was about doing an abortion surgery or not which ... imply the different opinion of unexpected pregnancy. A young Spanish girl in the story who regarded pregnancy as a beautiful aspect of life, we can see that she described the fetus as "lovely hill"....

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... "lost" because their inherited values could not operate in the postwar world and they felt spiritually alienated from a country they considered hopelessly average and emotionally lacking. The term embraces Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, E.E. Cummings, Archibald MacLeish, and Hart Crane, among others. I found Ernest Hemingway writing fascinating. Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Ill., he began work as a journalist after ... for Spain including a fascination with bullfighting led to his working as a correspondent during the Spanish Civil War, which resulted in the ...

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... short story "A Soldier Home", through Nick, the main character and ex-soldier. "It isn't fun anymore. I feel as though everything has gone to hell inside of me. I don't know Marge. I don't know what to say." "Isn't love any fun?" "No," Nick said. Marjorie stood up. Nick sat there, his head in his hands. In Paris Hemingway made a rendezvous with expatriates F. Scott Fitzgerald, John ... ...

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... traveled through Spain, Mexico, and the Middle East as a newspaper correspondent and a writer. During his stay in Paris he became friends with other literary writers such as Ernest Hemmingway, E. E. Cummings, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Edmund Wilson. He wrote Manhattan Transfer followed his first novel in 1920 called One Man's Intuition and that in 1925. His most famous novel, U.S.A. came in three parts: The ... ...

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... in the art field. New art techniques were discovered and used by artists such as Alfred Stieglitz and Charles Sheeler. There was timeless literature written by famous authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Robert Frost. It was the Jazz Age. Artists such as Bessie Smith and Duke Ellington dominated the jazz music profession. The 20's were a time of woman evolution ... ...

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... , mainly because society had such a strong opposition towards it. The Jazz Age was a golden period in American literature, distinguished by the works of such writers as Willa Cather, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis, and Carl Sandburg. At the same time, American writers began to influence world literature. A period of disillusion and cynicism that followed WWI found expression in the ... ...

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... old man that frequently sits at the cafe late at night and drinks. However there are certain undertones that lead me to believe that this is not so much a story of three men, but of the aging process of one man. One of the waiters is a young man with a wife, and the other is a middle aged ... unmarried man. they have a running commentary throughout the story about the old man, and how they feel about him. The beginning of the story is mostly concerned with the viewpoint of the young waiter. AS the reader we see what the young waiter is all about before ... that he had plenty of money. T...

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... stories of initiation, the following chapters will give a brief analysis concerning the categorization of three Hemingway-stories in this genre. 3.1 Childhood: "Indian Camp" In "Indian Camp"3 - being the first story of the Nick Adams-cycle and thus marking the starting-point of the "Konglomerat gescheiterter Initiationserlebnisse und traumatischer Schockerfahrungen" (Muller 38) the stories build as a whole - , Hemingway describes the protagonist ... the Caesarian his father is doing, which is an unusual cruel process as Dr. Adams makes no use of an anaesthetic (""No. I haven′t any anaes...

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... , apparently stolen while he was on a train trip in France. In 1923, Ernest and his wife had their first child, John, and Hemingway had his first publishing success with a short story entitled "My Old Man." Along with two other pieces of work; one being "In Our Time." By 1926, Hemingway was prepared to move up the ladder, but he had an ... from his legal ties to them and signed with Scribner's, the publishing house that would issue all of Hemingway's subsequent books. This change was well timed. In 1926, Hemingway joined Fitzgerald as a chronicler of the "lost generation" of the American...

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... than big game hunting. (Lynn, 1987). For Hemingway, "the bullfighter or the bull, or both . . . represent the central experience of mankind, the confrontation with death- (Shaw 70). In Hemingway's short story, "The Capitol of the World-, the young waiter Paco dies in a tragic accident with a make-believe bull. Paco's obsession with bullfighting becomes clear early on in the ... story when he is describing the people at the Luarca. "For Paco . . . the only ones who really existed were the bull fighters- (Hemingway 39). This comment has a double meaning. In one sense, Paco is not concerne...

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Santiago as a Christ Figure On its surface, Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea tells the story of Santiago, an old Cuban fisherman who has been 84 days without a catch; Manolin, the young man who loves him; and Santiago's tremendous struggle with ... listeners not to fight back, even if they were attacked. He commanded, "Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also" (Matthew 5:39). In contrast, Santiago regards violent struggle as inevitable in man's battle against natural forces. "Christ, I did not know he was so big," says Santiago. "I"ll kill ... the De...

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... started to go in sort of smooth waves. Then all of a sudden I started to cry. Then after a while it was better and I lay in bed- (Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, 39). Even in the company of only himself, Jake feels the need for justifying his reasons for crying and feels as if he is overreacting. Another stereotype that Jake feels he ... ...

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... Short stories contain certain elements, which consist of the following: plot, characters, theme and setting. In addition, the Short story is told from a specific point of view. All the elements of a short story are used in a specific way in order to comment on a part of our lives as members in a collective society. ... 's lives and gives the reader a better understanding of the character. A plot's structure is the way in which the story elements are arranged. Writers vary structure depending on the needs of the story. Plot consists of exposition, conflict, complication, climax, and reso...

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... sorrow. The old waiter sees what he may become and it frightens him to the point that he must return to his home for the evening. Throughout the story, Hemingway uses the idea of nothing or the lack of something to strengthen his theme of loneliness. The old deaf man has tried to kill himself and ... and empty but is now full of light so that he may sleep only to wake up and see the drunken old deaf man again in the café. This story can appeal to all audiences. No matter how old a person is, there is a good chance that the reader has one time or another experienced a period of ... lone...

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... because he would often drink himself to sleep. Alcohol dominated Ernest's life as well as his relationships with women. Travel is another theme within this story. Sitting in the Spanish railway station, looking across a plain at distant mountains, the woman compares the features of the plains to the couple's ... doesn't want anybody but her and that he knows the operation is perfectly simple. The self-centered nature of the man presented in the story is extremely similar to Ernest's relationships with women. According to his first wife, Hadley Hemingway, Ernest is described as "having an ...

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... ). This projects to the reader a lack of closeness between the two. Hemingway uses the characters in his short story "Cat in the Rain" to help the reader appreciate his works. The wife in the story is extremely air-headed. The woman in this story plays the role perfectly. The man on the other hand also fills the part of Hemingway's usual make leads ... ). The portrayal of this American couple is exactly like every other couple Hemingway creates providing an excellent tone for the short story. "Cat in the Rain", by Ernest Hemingway, is a short story about an American couple in an Italian h...

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... the situations in the stories are ones that would be made by people today. There are always two typical types of characters in a Hemingway story; the wise, compassionate, knowledgeable character and the ignorant, self-absorbed, careless character, and these two stories are no exception. Primarily, Hemingway is ... man and a woman talking about whether or not to keep their unborn child. Though Hemingway never specifically states the word "abortion" in the story, he implies the word by the reactions of the characters in the conversation. Often, Hemingway implies the topic in nonverbal manne...

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... peoples lives as the cause of much of this ominous despair and darkness. The phrase "nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada- in his short story "A Clean Well Lighted Place- both clearly and readily portrays Hemingway's feelings on this subject. This phrase and those that follow as Hemingway shamelessly rewrites the Lords ... waiters: one young and one old, provide both a mouthpiece for Hemingway's intents and the key wards of the conflict that he uses to propel the story. The old man is described as being old and deaf, and rather fond of going to the café at night because it "now at ... ...

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... Elephants- the author does not actually say in the text what is happening. Then a short story cannot be too specific because then it would not be a short story any longer. The reader can by the symbols realize what the story is really about. Some readers may interpret another way of seeing the truth, but the symbols ... they are waiting for the train at a station between Barcelona and Madrid. They are sitting on a café drinking beer and liquorice. When reading the story you figure out that she probably is pregnant and that her American boyfriend is not too happy about it. The title "Hill...

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... Elephants- the author does not actually say in the text what is happening. Then a short story cannot be too specific because then it would not be a short story any longer. The reader can by the symbols realize what the story is really about. Some readers may interpret another way of seeing the truth, but the symbols ... they are waiting for the train at a station between Barcelona and Madrid. They are sitting on a café drinking beer and liquorice. When reading the story you figure out that she probably is pregnant and that her American boyfriend is not too happy about it. The title "Hill...

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... older waiter and his only customer, drunken old man, several times, but he always manages to remain in control. This impatience is obvious early in the story when he shows no hospitality or professionalism toward the old man in the café, barking at him, "What do you want?- (96), and again ... plenty of money has no reason to be in despair. This does not agree with most of the views expressed by the older waiter throughout the story, such as his feeling that time is the same for everyone and overall understanding of "nada."" His statement about the importance of money simply contradicts ....

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... waiting at a train station talking about an issue that they never name. I believe this issue is abortion. In this paper I will prove that the girl in the story, who's name is Jig, finally decides to go ahead and have the baby even though the man, who does not have a name, wants her to have an ... establish the girl's behavior because this is important for figuring out the way in which she has made up her mind at the end of the story. Early in the story we get a glimpse at Jig's disgust with her male partner. She looks at the hills in the distance and says They look like white elephants ....

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... young woman and becomes clear that it is not something that she is readily doing, more that the man has pushed her into it. Throughout the story the reader is never told what the operation is but, when dissected the reader can assume that the operation is going to be the abortion of ... line of hills. They were white in the sun and the country was brown and dry" (514). Telling the story from afar and disclosure of the operation draws the reader closer to the story. The anticipation creates a wonderful vacuum effect which sucks the readers in, leaving them hanging on every word. A ... spe...

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... or death. These scenes are an illustration of the main characters" view on life. The opening lines are carefully chosen to describe the setting of the story. It is a way to prepare the reader, for the conflict that engulfs the plot. The author gives the description of two opposite landscapes on the ... of the station. The image of natural beauty and fertility, is also a reflection on the personality of the girl. We know this because later in the story, she compares what she sees to white elephants. Her comparisons of the hills to these fantastic characters, gives us a glimpse of her subc...

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... making progress from his past. This is an example of how honest and true details of the setting helps readers understand the purpose of the story. An example of the great detail that Hemmingway used in "Big Two-Hearted River: Part I" can be seen when he describes the grasshopper that ... Nick encounters. The story says, "They were not the big grasshoppers with yellow and black or red and black wings whirring out from their black wing sheathing as they ... . Elliot and Mrs. Elliot. This is an example of how Hemingway used the iceberg principle to convey purpose and add depth to the story...

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