Ernest Hemingway

Hooked on Fishing Some people never get to experience the thrill of fishing or they just don’t like it. I am lucky enough to have an uncle with the same interests as me. I thought that getting up early on the Sunday before the last week of school would be horrible. I was at my grandma’s house and was getting up to go fishing on my uncle’s boat. I had gone fishin previously, but only in small ponds with small fish. We drove all the way to Lewiston on a windy day and put the boat in the water.…

Mi Ultimo Adios is the last poem written by Rizal before his persecution by the firing squad on December 30, 1896. The poem was an unsigned, untitled, and undated poem of 14 five-line stanzas. Rizal placed this poem in the cocinilla, the alcohol stove and it was delivered to his family after his persecution. Mariano Ponce, one of Rizal’s friend entitled the poem “Mi Ultimo Pensamiento” which means “My Last Thought” and Fr. Mariano Dacanay, a prisoner in Bilibid published it in La Independencia…

William Faulkner American novelist born in 1897 had great works even today. Many of Faulkner’s books have been published over the years. The main stories many people point you to are the sound and the fury and as I lay dying. Throughout the stories many tell about the narrator’s point of view. The novels will explain the life in the south by also using the stream of consciousness and with the monologue and narrative that he uses in the novels. First, Faulkner shows many important perspectives.…

It’s a beautiful day in the summer, the sun is shining in all its glory and the birds are singing. And it seems as if everyone has one thing in mind, to spend the day at the local beach and have a good time while cooling down from the heat. Families carry picnic baskets while kids run around playing fetch with the dog. This seems to be a perfect day; in their mind nothing can go wrong. The only thing in their mind at the moment is to have fun. But they are unaware of the danger that waits in the…

A captain, cook, oiler, and correspondent find themselves in a miniscule boat fighting for survival. This is not the beginning of a bad joke, but rather the scene found at the beginning of Stephen Crane’s “The Open Boat”. Following these four characters as the recover from a shipwreck and attempt to make it to safety though all they have is a small boat and their waning strength, this story shares a powerful theme. This story is a prime example of the Naturalism philosophy: no matter what humans…

Love Of The Modern Woman During the 20s it was an extraordinary time where “traditional women” had an important upcoming of self confidence, and self worth. Women before this upcoming were expected to do what men told them too, as men were seen to be at the top of society’s totem of superiority. The 20s were a time of change however, and not everyone thought this way any longer. As World War 1 made it apparent that women can play a larger role in our society, women picked up the slack back home…

Liquid life In the novel, water is so common, so expected, we forget it was there altogether. At sea, there is a boat, a lion and a boy, but no water. However, Pi understands the necessity of water. Being deprived of it, he calls it “liquid life” when it touches his lips, quenching his thirst. Water isn’t just life blood in the book, it’s a messenger and a barrier PI must overcome to survive. Most obviously, you need water to live. After days without water and incredibly weak, PI gets a taste…

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1896 to a Catholic, Irish family. He was named after his ancestor, Francis Scott Key, who is known for writing the “Star-Spangled Banner”. Fitzgerald was from a middle class family, his father, a salesman for a consumer goods company, and his mother, the daughter of a wealthy grocer. He had four sisters, two of whom died before he was born and another after he was born. The family moved to New York for a short period of time before…

Emery and Adaline are two close friends. Their always together, if emery is somewhere expect adaline to be there as well. Although they are close friends, emery and adaline differ in many different ways. Their biggest difference is their personality, like in science opposites attract. They also have other differences, another being clothing choice, one likes fitted clothing and the other likes loose clothing. As well as differing in personality and clothing choice, they also differ in taste in…

O’Brien said he has not told this story to his parents, siblings and not even his wife. For more than twenty year he had live with it and with feeling shame. He graduated from Macalester College and he even get scholarship. But on june 17,1968, a month after he graduates, Tim receives his draft notice to fight in the Vietnam War that he hated. He was only twenty-one years old with young and politically naive but Tim think the American war in Vietnam seemed wrong for him and thought that he is…