... 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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... 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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... in "The Metamorphosis" was translated from German into English and many have speculated, including the translator, in the 2014 edition, Susan Bernofsky, that the translation impacts the story because of a lack of English terminology to directly covey Kafka's ideas (Kafka 122). Kafka's and Hemingway's works are similar in that they both stray from the grander narrative. ... Elephants," and the unintended translational impact that occurred in "The Metamorphosis," combined with Kafka's ambiguous literary style, both provide explanations to the deeper meanings that each story contains, that ...

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... what society deems acceptable and appropriate. We see similar patterns in displaying the ignorance and limitations of a romantic perspective in Henry James' "Turn of the Screw". In this story the protagonist, similar to Emma Bovary, is a young unexperienced girl inspired by her own "romantic" mindset and lack of exposition to realistic life interactions, and circumstances. ... why Gregor has become this "monstrous - vermin" is a completely untraditional way to begin a novel and leaves the reader with the same confusion as the characters in the story themselves. Another distinguishing fac...

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... willingness to editorialize and elaborate. The 'paratactic syntax' is "not a matter of being incapable of cause-and-effect reasoning and abstraction but of being unwilling to present either in this story"." (Wells 131) This syntax often involves what Doody interprets as polysyndeton - the use of several conjunctions in quick succession. "By doing this, Hemingway maintains the simple, unpretentious nature of ... - even fetishizes - the simplicity of a fishing trip, the pureness of quiet interaction with nature, the simplicity of a life without thought, without people, perhaps even without...

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... able to live for. Existentialism is in harsh contrast to a belief in a higher power or a god. "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" is a story by Ernest Hemingway about men in successive stages in the philosophy of existentialism, revealing ultimately how the philosophy will fail them. Nothingness is a condition man is ... is a reason behind decisions they make based on the intent of their higher power. Light, cleanliness and order play important roles in the story. The artificial light and good order of the café represent the truth, or reason for existence, that the existential man has creat...

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... Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English."" (Parshall 1). These were rules he never forgot to incorporate into his works to get to the heart of a story. The following year he entered World War I as a volunteer with American Red Cross ambulance unit as a driver. There he was wounded near the Italian/Austrian ... experience with the war in Italy. Not long after high school Hemingway volunteered as a Red Cross ambulance driver in 1917. Just like Frederick in the story he is seriously wounded and taken to get medical care. Henry was posted in northern Italy and, like Hemingway, receiv...

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... have. His first inclination is to attack the lot of them with his fists, but it is part of his heroic restraint that he refrains from doing so. The short story "The Mother of a Queen" is about a rich homosexual bullfighter, who begrudges the $20 he must spend on his mother's funeral. In "A Simple Enquiry," an Italian major unsuccessfully tries to seduce ... homophobic utterances. Mixed in with all the bluster about bulls is the concept of cojones, or balls. His last book The Garden of Eden published in 1986, is an extraordinary story on male sexual passivity, with a central character wh...

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... true that one of Hemingway's recurrent themes is heroism and death, but within all his novels he manages to convey all that is needed to make each and every short story stand out and remembered as though it were a 500 page masterpiece. Heroism: Triumph over crushing adversity is the heart of heroism, and in order for Santiago the fisherman to be ... ...

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... it underwater for every part that shows. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story. The Old Man and the Sea could have been over a thousand pages long and had every character in the village in it and all the processes of how they made ... ...

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