... is a serios drama typically describing a conflict between the protagonist and a superior force and having a sorrowful or disatrous conclusion that excites pity or terror. Both stories meet the qualification to be a tragedy. As stated in the definition, the reader can see that the protagonist will be defeated by the superior force, but the hero continues his/her mission. Often foreshadowing is readily apparent ... for defeat [a] man can be destroyed but not defeated." In Hemingway's portrait of the world, death is inevitable, but the best men will nontheless refuse to give in to its powe...

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... ideologies shone through was when we read the poem, "Ready to Kill-, by Carl Sandburg. A handful of the girls in the class were disturbed by how Sandburg failed to recognize women in his plea for not just soldiers but the "real huskies- of the world to be memorialized. This gender conscious way of thinking could be linked to the reader-response criticism, where it says that "meaning is derived ... by the resistance the reader feels in relationship to the text."" I was ignorant to the gender isolation until the ... topic was broached, for this is not a strong component of my ideology; th...

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Indulging the reader with his masterful literary techniques, Ernest Hemingway produces the story of a young couple in his short story, "Hills Like White Elephants." Waiting to catch a train the young couple stops for a short rest in the shade of the station building. Everything seems normal, they order drinks a have normal conversation until the man brings up the topic of the girls operation; things quickly become uneasy. It ... really an operation at all .The girl looked at the ground the table legs rested on" (515). Her reaction to his statement repelled her attention away from him and towa...

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... abortion in the early 1920's was not as easy, heck, abortion as a word, was hard to pronounce back then, let alone have one done. Abortion still is a very sensitive issue in today's modern world. Just the word itself carries a lot of stress and raises controversy. I can't imagine how heavier this word sounded back in the 1920's when morals and principles were abundant among ... , some in favor other are against, but it is an issue that concerns us all, and as a society it should concern us. Writing about abortion was a great tactic for Hemingway to catch people's attention and catching t...

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