... are not limited to symbolism, characterization, and other elements. When evaluating a literature piece for style one should analyze the following five elements: diction, images, details, language, and sentence structure. Two well-known American writers with completely different styles are Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner. Hemingway and Faulkner's similarities and differences in style become apparent when comparing and contrasting ... words to describe both characters and setting. Examples of diction usage for setting are found in the title, "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place- (Hemingway ...

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... a best friend that he can approach throughout his formative years. In T. Coraghessan Boyle and Ernest Hemingway's short stories, "If the River Was Whiskey" and "Indian Camp," two young boys are shown with their desire to be close to their fathers. Throughout the stories, these young boys, Tiller and Nick, undergo a sort of coming of age as they ... dad is a doctor, experiences first hand his father's prejudice towards his patient. As a result of their realizations, both boys become a little detached from their fathers. The first similarity between the two boys is that both yearn to be c...

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... inner most struggles of man by revealing the individual conflicts of his characters in his stories (Allen 155). In the short story: "Big Two-Hearted River" Hemingway creates internal conflict in the main character's situations in order to show the aspects of the struggle for success in life through ... experiences in nature. "Big Two-Hearted River," written in 1925, appears to be a quiet, slow paced narrative of a young man and his adventures on a fishing trip (Allen ... thoughts, if one does not proceed down the river of life one does not reap the benefits it has to offer. At face va...

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... ;The Story of an Hour," by Kate Chopin, the setting is used to help further develop and reflect the main character's struggles. There are two different settings in this short story, one of which is in the public, downstairs in Mrs. Mallard's home. The other is upstairs in confinement, ... "We could have all this and we could have everything and everyday we would make it more possible" (31). The use of the two settings comparing and contrasting with each other allows the readers to get a better comprehension of the character's struggles they are facing. John Updike uses the ... eyes, the...

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... not interested in his stories, he quickly runs into his parents' house. He slowly develops a daily routine of during the blazing summer, "sleeping late in bed getting up to walk down to the library to get a book room" (167). He simply cannot handle and face reality and has no dreams in his life. His immaturity is primarily due to ... ...

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... avoiding talking to the girls and his role as onlooker give him a sense of security. While Krebs remains in a safety zone on the front porch, he is protected. The girls walk on the other side of the street; nothing can touch him" (102). Krebs is now free from any pattern set by the society. He is beyond any dictations of ... ...

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... he appeared to be. Unless one gets close enough to a person to learn what goes on in his or her life the observer will never know what it's like to walk in that person's shoes. However, in writing it's different. The author gives the reader a chance to become intimately acquainted with fictional characters and to know the characters better than would ... ...

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... at the top he fell and lay there for some time with the mast across his shoulder."(121) This is after Santiago's long and painful journey and he tries to walk back, but the mast is bringing him down, just as the cross that Jesus had to carry tired him and he had to stop and rest before continuing on. In ... ...

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... army begins to retreat from the German army. Regrettably, Henry is required to "abandon his three ambulances ten kilometers outside of Udine- (Reynolds 123). Consequently, Henry and his troops must walk the rest of the retreat on foot. Henry's next conflict decision is based out of pure love for Catherine Barkley. In order for him to cross the river to Udine ... ...

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... being immediately operated on. During his recuperation after the surgery he spends time with Catherine in Milan. At first Fredric stays in a wheelchair, then on crutches and finaly he can walk. But during this time Catherine becomes pregnant. They have told themselves that they are married, but they don`t go through with the act because Catherine might get sent away if ... ...

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... that go with a career. Krebs on a daily basis keeps himself busy, so he would not think of work more less having a career. He sleeps late in bed, gets up to walk down town to the library to get a book; he walks through the town and spends the hottest hours at the poolroom. (146) This everyday cycle gives Krebs the ability to ... ...

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... hunted with very rich people who were dull, drank too much, and played too much backgammon. Hemingway himself had drunk too much. He later became depressed primarily because of his two failed marriages. But in 1940 at Cheyenne, Wyoming he remarried writer Martha Gellhorn. Together they took a trip to China and then settled in Cuba. After a while some signs of suicide ... he overcomes it and uses the lesson to his advantage. On the other hand, Robert Cohn, who has had the easy life is the perpetual loser. He allows people to walk all over him and continually feels sorry for himself. Robe...

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... a harsh reality. Loneliness or solitude can be defined as being either alone without companionship or even the dejection of knowing that your alone in some way. Hemingway's skillful setting of two waiters in a café, portray the differences of old versus young behavior. In this story, the younger waiter shows happiness and eager spirits. The old waiter shows negative spirits with ... home not carrying about if the old man has loneliness or not. Love indicates happiness which is characterized by the always need to be in a hurry home. A soldier and girl walk past the café because the gir...

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... sets the scene for Ernest Hemmingway's story of a man who finds his courage and happiness in "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber". Francis Macomber and his wife, Margaret Macomber, two attractive people with a large amount of wealth, set out on an African safari to add "spice" to their marriage in this unconventional story of cowardice and courage. But what the ... only stayed with him because he was wealthy, "He was wealthy and knew she would not leave him"(44). "He always had a great tolerance-(45). Which allowed his wife to walk all over him and further pushed down his own self...

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A conflict can be triggered by any small situation that comes between two people. A conflict can come from a disagreement, an argument, or a misunderstanding in which then develops into a bigger situation. In the short stories "Hills Like White ... characters stuck in a conflict about love, While in "Araby" the situation is more of an unrequited love, in "Hills Like White Elephants" two characters are confused about their love towards each other, the situation they are currently in is making them doubt their love for each other, and one decision they make ... in both stories, but the characte...

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... buyer and the agent for several insurance companies and he also loaned money at high rates of interest. Standing on the chair, I saw him walk down the steps and toward the lines, his fat neck bulging over the back of the collar band of his shirt, and his bald head ... wished for a more real, more honest way to represent his thoughts and feelings. Take, for example, Nick's thoughts in part one of "Big Two-Hearted River"; "He felt he had left everything behind, the need for thinking, the need to write, other needs, It was all back of ... writing."" (Donaldson 49), a brilliant description ...

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... who has returned home from war. In the short story "The Eighty-Yard Run" by Irwin Shaw, Christian Darling is a married ex-football player now living in New York. These two men have many similarities in their lives as well as some differences. Krebs and Darling both had some very close similarities. First, both stories took place during the1920's. Krebs and ... both played in some type of field. One was a football field, the other was a battlefield. They both had an interest in women, to say the least. The saddest similarity these two men had was that they both seemed so terribly lonely ...

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... is one of the photographs discussed in the story's opening paragraphs that suggest an unsatisfactory experience with German girls. Krebs and another corporal, both in poorly fitting uniforms, stand with two German girls who are "not beautiful" beside a Rhine that "does not show in the picture." The picture suggests an irony: the American soldiers, once enemies, date German girls with whom ... ' bodies. Just as he emphasizes the German girls' lack of beauty, Hemingway also erases the Rhine to show the lack of romance in such relationships. Throughout "Soldier's home" Hemingway juxtaposes ...

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... a man goes through while at war makes for the central theme of the story. Hemingway presents Harold Krebs as a man changed socially, religiously, and emotionally while fighting in a war for two years. Prior to leaving for war, Krebs lived a normal socialite life in college as a brother in a fraternity. As seen when he returns from the war, Krebs is somewhat of an ... of loneliness. Hemingway gives a synopsis of Krebs' day to show his self-inflicted isolation: during this time, it was late summer, he was sleeping late in bed, getting up to walk down town to the library to get a book, eat...

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... Hemingway wrote many short stories, novels and poems. In 1925 he wrote In Our Time which is a collection of short stories. In 1926 he wrote two novels called The Torrents of Spring and The Sun Also Rises. In 1927 he wrote another collection of short stories called Men Without Women. In 1929 ... nice thing about the French and German girls: not so much talking. Krebs had not wanted to come home, but he had. Now, he watches girls walk by and thinks that they are made out of a nice pattern. He starts reading a book about the war, about all of the battles he was ... man, who is a regular a...

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... night during a battle and an Austrian bombardment badly wounds his knee. He is sent to an American hospital in Milan and Catherine transfers there soon after. The two share an intimate relationship together over the summer while Frederic recuperates from his operation. When Lieutenant Henry is ordered back to the front, Catherine tells him she is ... . One officer is shot and the other flees to surrender to the Germans, so Lieutenant Henry jumps into Tagliamento River. He goes to find Catherine and the two flee by boat to Switzerland so that Frederic is not arrested for desertion. They a...

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... throughout the text. At the beginning of they the girl, named Jig, and the American are waiting at a little station "between two lines of rails" (l.3) for the train going to Madrid. They are sitting outside a bar in the shade and order two "cervezas" (l.16). The landscape is infertile, brown and dry (l.22), and the girl is looking off the hills, that remind ... that bothers us. It's the only thing, that's made us unhappy" (ll.78/79). In reaction to the latter statement the girl "puts her hand out and takes hold of two strings of beads" (ll.80/81), which demonstrates once more her need o...

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... tracks, and the Ebro River in the backdrop splits the sterile from the fertile land. These examples represent the couple being at a crossroads in their lives and are torn between two choices. The bamboo bead curtain in the beginning is overshadowed by the hills and background, though provides symbolism as one could interpret it acts as diving structure between being stuck ... use of particular themes and symbols through dialogue is essential in further understanding the underlying problems between Jig and The American. As we eavesdrop on the ongoing conversation between the two characte...

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... would not consider upon their initial understanding. In "Hills Like White Elephants" there is a commonplace opinion that the implied meaning of the two characters' discussion is about whether the girl should go through with getting an abortion (Link 4). Through this understanding many people assume that every other ... of the couple reveals that they may not be a couple in the relationship sense and rather just numerically, a pair. The short story introduces the two people as "The American and the girl with him," which leaves a very vague understanding of how they know each other or why ...

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... in some cases, for example if a book was written in the 1600's it may have nothing to do with today's time period. It may have no reoccurring themes of the two time periods. Most importantly all great literature has symbolism in it, no matter if it is poetry or a novel there is always a deeper meaning. All literature that is considered great ... ...

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