Ernest J. Gaines

"On April 10 and 11, the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston honored the Ernest Hemingway's centennial. The two-day symposium brought out some of the leading lights of American and international letters-Nobel Laureates and Pulitzer Prize winners, writers like Tobias Wolff, Robert Stone, and Annie Proulx. More significant, though, were the non-writers in attendance: a sell-out crowd paid $125 apiece to fill the hall. The turn-out shows that in an America that is hardly literary-indeed, barely…

In the book the sun also rises the author Ernest Hemingway, gives all of his characters different views about the world which helps understand why they carry themselves in the manners in which they do. Some characters based based off how they view the world and their out take on life, whether they view life from a materialistic or an emotional aspect of living. Three of the main characters Robert Cohn, Frances and Brett view the world materialistically, they feel as if they need things in there…

In the book, the old man is a failure because he has not caught a fish in 85 days. but he has caught a fish before. In the book he catches a dolphin to eat but he says he will never eat a dolphin raw again or without salt. hemingway states that he“struggles for 3 days to catch a fish and i understand that it is a 18ft marlin’’ page 65 He is also a failure because he says “unless sharks come and then a little later sharks come it's like he predicted it (that's kinda creepy). Sharks that he…

To many Santiago in the novella The old man and the sea by Ernest Hemingway, may seem to be the furthest from a hero, but in reality santiago fits the mold. He might not be the type of hero you believe but he fits the mold for a hemingway hero. A hemingway hero is based on most of his books and the “hero” in each of them. Some of the qualities that Santiago has that makes him a hero according hemingway hero are he is brave, courageous, humble, he triumphs over adversity, he has pride, endurance,…

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…

whether between countries or within oneself, as influence can be engrained in the minds of others and passed on through generations, where a war is only temporary. The play Othello by William Shakespeare and “the Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” by Ernest Hemingway, both depict women fighting their own war against the influence of society through actions and through words. In Othello, Emilia is merely a servant to her mistress Desdemona, yet still vies for a larger role in society. In “the…

(-- removed HTML --) It's been over for nearly 20 years now, but Seinfeld has taught us some timeless lessons that should inspire us for years. 1. “Jerry, just remember, it's not a lie if you believe it.” The earnestness with which Jason delivers the line, combined with everything we know about George at this point, really makes you feel like those words came from the heart, like this was the most profound wisdom that George will ever impart. 2. “I spend so much time trying to get their…

were fighting rifle and bayonet wielding enemies. PTSD or post traumatic stress disorder was not discovered or given the time of day in this time period which makes you wonder how deeply it affected the soldier's brains and future life decisions, Ernest Hemingway, a World War I ambulance driver being one of them. The topic of Hemingway's life reflections on his fiction is a debatable yet dissonant since his…

In Ernest Hemingway short story, Hills Like White Elephants, Hemingway uses a narrative voice as an eavesdropper and uses indirect characterization like dialogue to portray a serious conversation of abortion. Instead of providing a backstory including motives and emotion of the characters, Hemingway puts the reader in the role of eavesdropper to the couple’s conversation. The setting is in the 1920’s at a train station. The main character, Jig, only has two options for her situation, marriage…

different word usage, but how and why do authors use figurative language? What is the proper way to use them, when should they be used, and what is the difference of books that use it, and the ones that do not? In “The Old Man And The Sea” written by Ernest Hemingway, many types of figurative language are used throughout the book such as alliteration, similes, and personification, and all of them are used to describe the things that are taking place. Alliteration is used throughout the book…