... during prohibition was a more profitable trip than using his boat for just a fishing charter. When he was on his way back from Cuba on one of his smuggling trips, Cubans who were trying to steal his cargo shot him in the arm. Since he didn't get any medical attention right away, his arm had to be amputated thus painting him as a traditional pirate ... in a battle and a heart cold as an icicle. Never did he hesitate to take someone's life, a stealing cheating, lying type of person that you hope to never do business with. On the other hand, you could see how much Harry cared for the innoc...

• Word Count: 989
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... descriptions of 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 the novel, showing how it's ending was in its beginning" (Oldsey 183). This famous ... excerpt reveals many important details about the book. [1] To the north we could look across a valley and ... were mists over the river and clouds on the mountain and the trucks splashed mud on the road...

• Word Count: 1144
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... 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 his father with fishing ... free, just as Hemingway himself lived and led a life of a vagrant, coming face to face with violence and evil on the road. Nick Adams spends his summers in Michigan among the Indians, where he sees life in the...

• Word Count: 2761
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

... that war had 'used up his words'. This was reinforced when a snippet of a retyped Henry James quote was found among the pages of his unfinished manuscript of "A Farewell to Arms." On the snippet, Hemingway prefaced the James quote "The war has used up words " by writing "on the debasement of words by war"."(Bloom 209) However, Trodd notes that "Long before this, Hemingway's limited vocabulary, few adjectives ... 's writing. He demonstrates time and time again that he is capable of breaking his own rules. Pilar's story in chapter 10 of For Whom the Bell Tolls maintains the precision and i...

• Word Count: 5359
• Approx Pages: 21
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate