Summary Of The Snows Of Kilimanjaro

Secondly, in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” Harry was responsible toward his profession. Harry the main character of this chose to live the life without writing any word even though he was very talented. Furthermore when he was dying through flashbacks remembers a lot of stories that could inspired him to write about. The author explores the great idea that if the main character would have chosen to write, rather than leaving everything undone, his life would not the compos of failure and regret. In the other side Harry will not know what he would gain if he would took the risk to write. Now in his lasts moments he think about his life and how he didn’t accomplish anything and how he is almost useless. Moreover he had a lot of opportunities to …show more content…
“But he had never written a line of that, nor of that cold, bright Christmas day with the mountains showing across the plain that Barker had flown across the lines to bomb the Austrian officers' leave train, machine-gunning them as they scattered and ran. He remembered Barker afterwards coming into the mess and starting to tell about it. And how quiet it got and then somebody saying, ''You bloody murderous bastard.'' Those were the same Austrians they killed then that he skied with later. No not the same. Hans, that he skied with all that year, had been in the Kaiser Jagers and when they went hunting hares together up the little valley above the saw-mill they had talked of the fighting on Pasubio and of the attack on Perticara and Asalone and he had never written a word of that.” (Hemingway, 5) According to this flashback he remembers his friend died by a bomb while this gay was trying to move got hit by bomb with his bowels out of his bod. This poor gay begged Harry to shot and kill him. This is flashback that show the responsibility of Harry to write about pain and suffer but again as in the other flashbacks even though is an inspiring story he didn’t write nothing about. In the other side he was morally responsible because he sacrificed the last morphine pill that he saved for himself when he gave to his friend. In my opinion this shows a strong …show more content…
Furthermore I think that Harry in order to be responsible to his profession could wrote a lot of extraordinary stories and despite this he chose to live a useless life. Furthermore it is true that one should try to show it’s because never knows if this talent would masterpiece. In this story author also tells that how the effort to do something can lead to activeness of great things, to contrary of this by not taking any actions and giving up people won’t get any accomplishment. In my opinion the moral of the story is that people should work to achieve their dreams in order to live a meaningful