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    carefully analyzing key research, such as the novel, one can come up with a certain conclusion that the main character, Santiago represents the desires, the mentality, and the lifestyle that is identical to Hemingway's. In Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway portrays the old man, Santiago, with the desires, the mentality, and the lifestyle. Santiago is an old Cuban fisherman who has gone eighty four days without catching any fish. Santiago is now considered unlucky by…

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    Ernest Hemingway is a well-known American writer. He is favored by many for his ability to allow readers to connect the dots for themselves when reading his stories. A hundred different people could read one of his pieces of writing and come up with a hundred different ideas on what he is writing about. In the short story, “Hills Like White Elephants” Ernest Hemingway creates a narrative piece. It is a dialog between an American man and a woman named Jig. The two of them are sitting at a…

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    difference in our world. The definition of a hero is based on people’s opinion of what a hero do to help people. While some people believe that a stereotypical comic superhero is a definition of a hero, others believe that a hero can be anyone. Ernest Hemingway, the famous author for a various amount of classical stories, influences many people on what a hero is1. Based on his stories, people use the term “Code Hero” to describe the type of traits a hero has in Hemingway’s stories and use these…

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    that is sometime chaotic, often stressful, and always painful.” is the definition that Ernest Hemingway gives for a code hero. This quote is one that can apply to many different situations and people. You can find it almost anywhere. The main character in the novel The Old Man and the Sea and the movie Finding Forrester represent this in both their qualities and their relationship with a young boy. Hemingway is immensely famous for the idea of a code hero. In his definition, a code hero is…

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    Ernest Hemingway the author of the old man and the sea says it's his best work of writing. It is about an unfortunate old man named Santiago. The old man and the sea and the art of mental training are two very helpful books when it comes to helping you prepare for tough challenges. Having mental toughness is very important for tough events in real life. Santiago shows many traits that resemble toughness. One of them that he shows he is confident in many things. “I am not good for many more turns…

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    Ernest Hemingway’s writing was often influenced by his own life. During his life Hemingway struggled with his masculinity. In his Nick Adams stories the theme of masculinity is explored. Nick, like Hemingway, struggles with the constant need to be masculine. In these stories, Nick avoids the topics of his future and the war because of his need to be masculine. These topics inspire fear and the feeling of inferiority in Nick and masculinity includes neither fear nor inferiority. This is…

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    Ernest Hemingway’s short story, Banal Story, juxtaposes the difference between flashy headlines found in stories and articles, and the raw truth of reality. The story is set with an unnamed writer (who remains unnamed through the story’s entirety) sitting at his writing spot, eating oranges and watching the snow. Hemingway starts the story off this way to show the realty of the unnamed writers life. The beginning of this short story parallels the ending by concluding the story with a forum about…

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    “The Elephant In the Room” “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway has a distinct point of view that greatly impacts the story. Third person objective adds a unique twist to the story by creating a different view of each character. The author cannot tell how the character is feeling, they only tell what the characters say and do. The author cannot go into the character's mind and tell the readers how they feel about a specific problem that they might avoid, causing uncertainty…

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    The characters in Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway differ from each other dramatically. The character known as the man is seen more as the protagonist and the girl he is having a conversation with is seen as the antagonist. The diction in this short story gives away the motivations of the man versus the girl. Figurative language and diction gives away the topic of the conversation that they want to keep quiet which is abortion. The man in the story is an American man and from…

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    Ernest Hemingway Ambition

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    I believe that Ernest Hemingway admired a strong person with ambition. Throughout his work, he shows this many times by the characters in his stories being strong and standing up for themselves. A person with ambition is In the short story “The Killers”, two men named AJ and Max had came into Henry’s lunchroom to eat lunch. The men were very hostile with the people in the restaurant, including the waitress, the cook, and the customer attending. Georged served AJ and Max their food, but then…

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