... to define and categorize stories of initiation regarding typical elements will be shortly presented. 2.2.1 Views on the characteristics of stories of initiation As mentioned in chapter 2.1, `initiation′ in literature focuses on different aspects of the passage from childhood or adolescence to adulthood than the anthropologic term denoting mainly rituals of ... of the infantile father-image is an ultimate necessity for this progress." (DeFalco 59; cf. also Muller 42). As this story follows the typical three-part structure of the initiation as a journey (exit - transition - entrance), it...

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... theme of service to show that everyone has a purpose for being on the earth, for some it is to serve. Along with themes another major part of A Farewell to Arms is symbolism. Hemingway's creative use of nature as a basis for the symbolism has a strong outcome on the success of ... the novel. Throughout the novel Hemingway uses rain to signal a disaster. Starting in the first chapter rain clearly symbolizes death, "seven thousand men died of cholera during the rainy spell" (Hemingway 4). During Henry's and Catherine's trip to Milan, Catherine clearly ... from Caporetto and the Germans. ...

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... traditional pirate. Although Harry lived the life of a pirate, he had a loving family and a wife who adored him. Marie, his wife, described Harry in the Chapter Fourteen; "She watched him go out of the house, tall, wide shouldered, flat backed, his hips narrow, moving, still, she thought, like some kind of ... insensitive, cocky person. He looked at people from the outside in, meaning he judged people by the way they looked and not by their character. In chapter nineteen when Richard was "Riding his bicycle, he passed a heavy-set, big, blue-eyed woman, with bleached-blonde hair showing ...

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... war, love and life in general, Ernest Hemingway leaves nothing to the reader's imagination in his classic novel A Farewell to Arms. The first chapter is written so well that "it deserves to be read again, and perhaps again, for among other things it illustrates the genesis and unity of ... is a rapid one. During the fall, "the branches were bare and the trunk's black with rain". The transition from summer to autumn represents a more significant part of the novel. In the beginning, the weather in the novel is dry, but when Catherine reveals that she's pregnant, all of a sudden "it turned ...

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... of his own knowledge . . . What a writer should try to do is to make something which will be so written that it will become a part of experience of those who read him."" Hemingway 1954 (Harvey Breit p 77) "He became the most influential and most imitated writer. He dared deal ( ... So I have tried to eliminate everything unnecessary to conveying experience to the reader so that after he or she has read something it will become part of his or her experiences and seem actually to have happened. This is very hard to do and I've worked at it very hard."" Hemingway ... lost him. So I left th...

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... life or the mere challenge of life itself with grace and "manliness" or one will break down and be shamed by others and one's self. In "Big Two- Hearted River: Part II" Nick's battle with taking on the river and the prisoners in the vignette prior to it represents the lost of respect, not getting any sympathy from anyone, and the ... and become weak. Hemingway despises that, and that is why he uses more female characteristics with the characters that do not have grace under pressure. In "Big Two- Hearted River: Part II" Nick has matured a great deal because of his experience of war and ...

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... see her," the doctor said. "I want to go with you," Nick said. ". . . I know where there's black squirrels." "All right," said his father. "Let's go there." These last lines from the chapter, "The Doctor and the Doctor's wife" from, In Our Time, show how Hemingway's struggling relationship with both parents was a struggle for him to choose between his mother with music, or ... learn to do something else. First I have tried To eliminate everything unnecessary to conveying experience to the reader so That after he or she has read something it will become a part of his or her Experience an...

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