Ernest Hemingway's A Fable For The Living

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A Fable for the Living is a story about a country where it rains for most of the year, but almost every summer, a drought sets in. Due to these droughts, rifts form on the earth’s surface, and the citizens of this country put messages into the rift in order to talk to their deceased loved ones. This story is very appealing because who wouldn’t want to continue to talk to the people they love even after they die?

With death comes grief. The thought of never being able to see or speak to people who were once so uniform in your life is devastating. It takes a long time to get completely used to the fact that they are gone for good, but if you are still able to speak to them and not see them, then how would you possibly be able to get over their

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