Ernest J. Gaines

distinct views on a life changing experience. In his, Ernest Hemingways, simple, modern short story, “Hills Like White Elephants”, It starts off with the two characters,a couple. An American, and a girl, Jig, are having a few drinks at a train station, and end up discussing an operation as they wait for their train. Neither of them wants to come out and express his or her feelings, but making it clear nevertheless throughout the story. Ernest Hemingway uses different symbols in his story to…

“Hills Like White Elephant”: Dominance and persuasion. In Ernest Hemingway’s complex short story “Hills Like White Elephant” , two characters also known as The American and The girl (Jig) argue with each other in order to effectively reach a compromise on whether Jig should participate in a life altering operation. The American’s attempt to convince The Girl (Jig) to have an abortion is what eventually leads to their failed relationship. Jig and the American have a series of conversations…

The Will to Survive is Worth the Chance of Life Everyday is a fight for life and with the will to live you are one of the strongest people left on Earth. The book The Road by Cormac McCarthy has many examples of life and death situations about a boy and his father during an apocalypse. They want to make a journey to the ocean where it is safer and warmer, but they have to deal with cannibals, hunger and sickness throughout this journey. They end up making it to the ocean and this was only…

Beaches, Blood, and Ballots by Gilbert R. Mason, M.D. Chapter Three: Going Home to Serve This chapter relates the period that Dr. Gilbert R. Mason began his long and arduous journey through the Civil Rights movement and the start of his contributions to that movement. While finishing his internship in St. Louis in 1945, Dr. Mason was made aware of an opportunity to purchase a practice from a doctor that was moving away from Biloxi, Mississippi. Dr. Velma Wesley, a practicing female physician,…

Strength, honor, soldier, Olympian, and Christian are words that describe Louie Zamperini. Laura Hillenbrand writes about the life of Louie and the traumatic events that he endured through World War II. In Laura Hillenbrand’s novel, “Unbroken- A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption” readers will explore how Louie Zamperini’s character and inner strength helped him become an Olympic athlete, survive imprisonment as a Japanese Prisoner of War (POW) and turn his life around…

Hemingway’s Carefully Chosen Settings: How Hemingway Creates an Argument and Masters the Short Story Hemingway was the master of the short story, an otherwise impossible form of writing, because he was able to use all the literary devices as his disposal to make every single word work for the story, which stopped his short stories from running on into novellas. Indeed, the way Hemingway uses devices like setting is startling in his short stories because he does more than set the scene – he uses…

Title: Flavio and the giant mushroom Once upon a time a man named Flavio was delivering a stock of incredibly rare skyshrooms by boat. Once they got to port, Flavio said “Who wants to hear a story?” one of his crewmates said “Oh not again.” but it was too late, for Flavio had gone off on a tangent. By the time he had finished, the entire stock of skyshrooms had spoiled. Zess T., wondering why her delivery had been so late came to the port to investigate. When she arrived, she found her…

A raisin in the sun a Historical Fiction based in southside Chicago , Between World War ll and the present day ( first produced in 1959. Book by Lorraine Hansberry came from the root inspiration from Langston Hughes “ What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore--- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat Or crust and sugar--- Like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags . Like a heavy load. Or does it explode? A amazing fester of words from a…

Society and the individuals that comprise it feed off each other in a sometimes symbiotic, sometimes parasitic relationship- such is the narrator of Fountain and Tomb’s world. In his anthology, author Naguib Mahfouz walks us through a series of autobiographical excerpts from his time growing up in a small alleyway in Cairo during the early 20th century. The stories deal with marriage, political revolution, human nature, and the interplay between individuals and the society they build. Through…

As time’s clock runs its course, we often find ourselves nostalgic of times that could have been or were. Staring out across an ocean, laughing around a table filled with close friends, or taking a long walk at night humans seek reflection and question if we have proven ourselves worthy. Similar to Walcott in his poem, people begin to reflect when faced with reminders of their past. The magnitude of the narrator’s experience is clearly portrayed in his nostalgic tone and repetition of…