Ernest Bevin

imperial opportunity? By what criteria should the expedition be evaluated? Given your answer to the preceding question, was it a success or a failure? The Endurance expedition fits in all three contexts of imperial, scientific and entrepreneurial. Ernest Shackleton used his journalist contacts in order to promote the expedition. Shackleton was not able to claim Britain as the first to reach the South Pole, although he was within 100 miles. Unfortunately, the Norwegian explorer Ronald Amundsen…

Table 1 Stylistic features studied following the critical reception of Hemingway’s style Critical Reception Linguistic Features -Meyers (1982, p. 5) ‘his classic style, stripped of adjectives is bare, sharp and direct’ - Paul (1999, p. 3) admires Hemingway’s ‘short, tight sentences.’ -‘Hemingway’s fiction is strikingly simple and concrete. It is comprised of monosyllabic words arranged in short sentences.’ Available at: <http://www.pages.ykt.ru/miracle/hem.html> Internet accessed on…

The story contained within “Battle Royal”, the first chapter of Ralph Ellison’s novel Invisible Man, is massively psychologically complex. From the implications of imagery to the mentalities of the characters who willingly undergo intense physical pain, Ellison’s story is laden with layers of meaning. The largest contributing factor to the psychology of the piece, though, the purpose and effect of the narrator’s grandfather’s dying words on the young man throughout his life and the events of the…

Ernest Hemingway A Biographical Criticism Introduction Ernest Hemingway was among the most significant authors in the 20th century. Hemingway’s publications, in form of short fiction and novels left imprints on the literary system of not only the USA, but the entre globe as a whole (Ebersole,143).Currently, the author who is also a Nobel prize winner, is considered among the greatest novelists and is especially renowned for famous works among them A Farewell To Arms and The Old Man And The Sea…

American author Ernest Hemingway’s novel Across the River and into the Trees was his first published fiction since 1940’s For Whom the Bell Tolls with his only book in the interim being 1942’s anthology, Men at War, a collection of war stories by various authors for which he served as editor. Although Hemingway worked on the text in the late 1940s while he was in Cuba and France, Across the River and into the Trees was not published until 1950. It was first published in serialized form in…

Name Date Class Hemingway’s “A Soldier’s Home”: A lost identity Harold Krebs is a complex man. Throughout Ernest Hemingway’s short story “A Soldier’s Home” it’s clear that Harold Krebs isn’t quite sure who he is or who he has become after serving two years as a Marine in World War I. Hemingway’s distinct and simple writing style helps to carry the story of this multifaceted man. He is referred to as “Krebs”— a soldier – by the narrator; “Harold” by his mother; and “Hare,” an affectionate…

something that could not be clear in the plot and theme of any story. Symbolism helps the readers to understand a deeper meaning to any story. An excellent example of a story that has symbolism is “Hill like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway. The symbolism found in Ernest Hemingway’s work has important value to a story, but also can be interpreted by readers deeply and from a different point of view. The use of symbols such as luggage, white elephants and a train in “Hills like White…

Within Ernest Hemingway’s semi-autobiographical fiction A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway’s ironic devices and tone maintain a particular consistency throughout the novel. Hemingway’s writing style is very straightforward, constantly leaning away from being ambiguous, though there is still a sense of situational irony, coupled with a straightforward tone constantly found within the story’s plotline. Painstakingly simple and general, Hemingway does little to embellish and cover-up the brutalities of…

Bonnie Nadzam’s newly released novel, Lions (Grove/Black Cat, $16), is a ghost story–a ghost story about the spirit of a dying Colorado town called Lions, so named “to stand in for disappointment with the wild invention and unreasonable hope by which it had been first imagined, then sought and spuriously claimed.” It is also a story about the ghosts that haunt the town’s few remaining inhabitants: the ghosts of their ancestors, the ghosts of their hopes and ambitions, the ghosts of an uncertain…

Running Crunch crunch, goes the leaves under my feet, it was a cold day but it was fine with me. When I am running around my block. I live by a creek so when I am running I sometimes hear fish splashing. So sometimes, when I run I take my friend that lives downstairs, like I live up in a house and he lives down. It is a duplex. So sometimes, we eat sandwiches, and peanut butter and jelly and sandwich I could smell the sandwiches from far away, sooo tasty I taste the peanut butter and jelly…