Ernest Hemingway

Commentary Introduction This is a commentary based on my translation of a literary extract taken from the famous novel " Give Back My Heart" by Yusuf Sibai, one of the prominent novelist in the Arab world, as the source text. The novel was published in 1954. It is about the complicated love story of Ali, a poor young boy, and Engie, the daughter of a rich man. The novel highlights the differences among the social classes in Egypt and the political incidents of the time. The extract is an…

of Something. Hemingway uses this title to describe different situations, both implicit and explicit, in the passage. Firstly, this title can be used to describe the area the passage is taking place in. Hemingway calls this area “Hortons Bay” (31), an abandoned lumbering town. Once there were no logs left to make lumber, he describes that the left-over contents of the town “stood deserted in the acres of sawdust that covered the swampy meadow by the shore of the bay” (31). Hemingway could have…

In the short story “The Boat”, Alistair Macleod describes the conflicting relationship between a mother and a father based on their different attitudes about their children’s futures. The story is told through the perspective of the son in the family, looking back on his childhood in the 1930’s in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. The narrator begins the story with the first trip he took with his dad on their boat. It was a 32 by 9 foot “Cape Island boat” designed for small inshore fisherman. Coming…

F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American novelist known for his depiction of the Jazz Age. In his short story, “The Four Fists,” he wrote about a wealthy, arrogant, spoiled, young man named Samuel Meredith who have undergone significant changes as he learns valuable life lessons. Authors like F. Scott Fitzgerald accomplish character development through physical appearance, speech and actions, reaction of the character to other characters, and the character's inner thoughts and feelings. Moreover,…

Gabriel García Márquez was born in March 6, 1927. He was born in Aracataca. Hemingway gave him influence in the short stories he wrote. “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” and “The Handsomest Drowned Man” exemplifies the elements of the supernatural world. He is one of the most representative figures in the so-called Latin American Boom. Gabriel García Márquez uses the supernatural, the dark ,and the mysterious elements to amplify the magical realism between these two stories. García Márquez…

The Nature of a Meaningful Life Thomas Mann's Mario and the Magician is about a family who took a vacation in one of the beaches in Italy. For the purposes of this paper, the nature of a meaningful life will be analyzed based on the article, with Kant and Mill as sources to defend such analysis. Desires, Emotions, and Moral Choices Kant believed that desires and emotions do not play an essential role with how a person rejects or embraces morality (Kant, Abbott & Denis, 2005). In fact,…

John Steinbeck life story and all the important thing he had done “In every bit of honest writing in the world in the world, there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other.” (Shillinglaw). John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. was born February 27 1902 to his death on December 20, 1968 and he had won the Nobel and the Pulitzer prize winning american novelist. His famous novelist are “Of Mice and Men” , ” The Grapes of wrath” , and “East of…

The cat didn’t reply; instead, he simply strident regally out of the alley. The girl furrowed her brow, ignoring the cat and taking notice of Fleance’s sudden interest in the shadows, “Say” she grinned alacritous, “Are you here alone? My aunts and I could offer you a place to stay if you’d like.” Fleance assiduously examined the dirt-ridden floor. His father had warned him against the dangers of the world. In fact, before Banquo had been murdered he tended to be an extremely vigilant man;…

Summary: An unknown man jumps off of the highest tower in Florence, Italy. Before jumping he thinks about his last gift to humanity and being remembered as a hero for his actions. Meanwhile Robert Langdon wakes up in a hospital bed in Florence with a gunshot wound and amnesia. Agent Vayentha from the Consortium, a private organization which fabricates articles and events to the liking of their clients, comes to the hospital to kill Langdon. Fortunately, doctor Sienna Brooks helps Langdon escape…

Many people feel that they could never abandon their morals and values. However, these people have not been challenged with extreme circumstances in their life. Yann Martel, in his novel Life of Pi, shows us that even though we believe our morals and values are important, we can abandon them when we are desperate. His story is about a boy who manages to survive after the boy and his family travels on a ship that sinks. The boy loses his family, and eventually ends up stuck at in a lifeboat…