... is only found in a "very small proportion of works called initiation stories" (Marcus 190). 2.2 Theoretic approaches to the initiation-theme in literature Here, some attempts 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 primitive societies. In general, four aspects of init...

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... journalism"." (Fishkin 140-141) It was not just an attention to detail and a talent for brevity that Hemingway learned from his time as a newspaper man, it was an entire theory of literature. "Hemingway believed that good writing springs from knowledge that the author should write about things which he really knows"." (Morgan 5) Hemingway would always insist on writing about what he knew ... hand against the pine needles where he lay and he touched the bark of the pine trunk that he lay behind"." (Hemingway, Bell 390). The sentence structure is simple, the observations are factual, prec...

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