Ernest Callenbach

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    Two amazing authors with very different writing styles have written about the wilderness and its many unknowns. One of the authors, Jon Krakauer, is the writer of the article, Death of an Innocent, which is a non-fictional piece about an adventurous boy who met his doom in the Bush of Alaska. The other author is Peter Stark, the writer of Thirst, a story about an abandoned man in the Sahara desert stricken with dehydration. Although they both wrote about the outdoors, their writing style is what…

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    Courageous or Fearful??? Throughout the book Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, written by Jamie Ford, Henry the main character displays courage even though he is scared. As stated by Lou Gehring, " Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is being afraid and doing it anyway." For example, he walks Keiko home from school every day to the Japanese side of town where he isn't accepted and he disobeys his father in order to stand up for his own dreams. Henry also displays courage when he…

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    In Our Redeployment In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway along with Redeployment by Phil Klay, both discuss the truth of war that connects to their readers in a special way. Each novel, with its own set of short stories describes the tragedy, tasks, and emotional toll war takes on the life of its veterans and civilians. This is shared through both author’s unique indirect style of writing. Klay and Hemingway focus on the depiction of war in another light by using the art of omission, hoping to…

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    Looking at Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” we will just see a couple arguing about abortion and whether the girl would go through with it. The couple believes that when Jig goes through with the abortion the relationship will automatically fall back to the blissful state it was before the obstruction of the baby come along. Hemingway said, “And if I do it you’ll be happy and things will be like they were and you’ll love me” (361). The girl is willing to go through with abortion,…

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    According to the world renowned author Ernest Hemingway, a hero is “A man who lives correctly, following the ideals of honor, courage and endurance in a world that is sometimes chaotic, often stressful, and always painful” (Miles). Who is a chaotic and stressful hero in your eyes? Wolverine? Deadpool? These characters relate to Frederic Henry because they are not traditional heroes. An average day in any of these heroes shoes are almost the complete opposite of normal. All of Hemingway’s…

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    Interview Novelist Manuel Puig “Homosexuality is not something we should judge. More importantly: the act doesn’t make you homosexual.” Readers of novelist Manuel Puig will never forget the novels of the Argentine man. Using innovative narrative techniques, dark comedy and particularly film, Manuel Puig has been a very successful writer. Born in 1932 in General Villegas, a small town on the Argentine pampas, Puig began studying English at the age of ten, to get a better understanding in…

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    ‘A Clean, Well-Lighted Place’ is a short story written by an American author known as Ernest Hemingway. The story was at first distributed in 1933 in the Scribner’s Magazine. The plot is staged in a late night café centering on an old man who happens to be deaf and is reveler on this particular night. Being the only client of the evening, he prefers dining when the night grows still (Hemingway 149). From the old man's way of life, there is evidence of theme of loneliness with the old man…

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    The novel A Farewell To Arms shows the development of the main character, narrator, and protagonist, Lieutenant Frederic Henry. From the beginning of the novel as a character that had not experienced true lost and his feelings towards war, Catherine Barkley, and his friends all seem superficial yet go through a drastic change as the character develops throughout each book. Book One introduces the readers to the character Lieutenant Frederic Henry, who is portrayed as naive and did not think…

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    “The Old Man and the Sea” Final Paper Ernest Hemingway wrote the story “The Old Man and the Sea” in a way that does not make manifest the point of whether or not the protagonist, Santiago, is successful after returning home from the sea. When seeing the sole person he cares about, Manolin, he feels relieved after having been gone for so long. At the same time the villagers realize that the feat Santiago had achieved was unrivaled by any of the other villagers’ accomplishments. The fact that he…

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    “They were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.” (Mark: 1: 22) The imposing figure of G.K. Chesterton, English writer and wit, was often seen squeezed behind a table in London restaurants. Chesterton always joked about his large bulk, saying that it gave him the consolation of offering his seat in the train to three ladies. During one of his literary lunches Chesterton was expounding on the relationship between power and authority.…

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