Ernest J. Gaines

Upton Sinclair, author of The Jungle, was a realist writer born in 1878. He endured many hardships in his life, which led to him becoming a complex person. He based many of his characters off of himself. This caused his works to be filled with complex characters as well as critical views of the capitalist American society. These traits of realism are prominent in Sinclair’s writing and life. Upton Sinclair suffered through an unstable childhood as well as independence at an early age,…

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. Authors…

“The only person you can count on is yourself.” In the book Hatchet by: Gary Paulsen, Brian is faced with the challenge of finding good food. Brian, after thinking, realizes that the lake has fish in it that he could catch and eat. He spends hours and hours making a “fish spear”. He was dependent upon himself to provide the fish for him to eat, and when he tested it, it didn’t work. Brian was very disappointed at this. He kept on throwing it at the fish in the water, but the spear seemed…

to illustrate an idea or concept, many of which use a varsity of literary devices to accomplish the transcendence of the message to the public. Ernest Hemingway is an author who immensely succeeds in transcending our perspective of the symbols and context clues into something beyond the words we read on the page. The “iceberg theory”, mastered by Ernest Hemingway, gives way to the idea that less is more, and that we, as an author, only need to give enough information for the reader to understand…

A living person is identified as someone that is a living creature, that includes having a range of emotions that distinguish character traits. A book that showcases this successfully is “The Old Man and the Sea” a novel written by Ernest Hemingway that was published on September 1, 1952. It tells the story of a fisherman named Santiago that has had no luck in catching fish in 84 days. There is also a boy named Manolin, and together they help each other in many ways until one day Manolin leaves…

of stories exist where you simply have to guess what will happen after the end of the story. The writer decided to not include the last moments and leaves it up to us, as the reader, to finish his tale. One of these open ended literature pieces is Ernest Hemingway’s Hills Like White Elephants. The story depicts a couple waiting for the train at a station, to kill time they decide to have a few drinks and as the reader we get to follow their conversation. Although it is mentioned nowhere, they…

A girl finding her voice in ‘Hills like White Elephants The true question: will she undergo an abortion? In 1927 Ernest Hemingway wrote a collection of short stories including ‘Hills like White Elephants’. As a modernist writer, he believes that the reader has to work in order to understand the meaning of his stories. This can be connected to his writing style, in which he uses a lot of metaphors, symbolism and other stylistic elements, this makes it difficult for the reader to discover the…

1. The novel tells the reader about the lives of Frederic Henry and Catherine Barkley before they come to Italy and what they are doing there. First of all, Frederic Henry was studying to be an architect before the war. Catherine was getting ready to marry her later dead fiancé. Second, they are in the Italian army to help the wounded. Catherine is a nurse and Frederic is an ambulance driver for the Red Cross. Lastly, when asked why he joined the army as an American, Frederic responded in an…

An analysis of Big Two Hearted River by Ernest Hemingway: The times during which Hemingway lived were an important influence on his writing. With the First World War being war the world had changed greatly. Both the Europeans and Americans had seen a ravaging and destructive war. A whole new generation of young people had seen and experienced this destruction. It seems Hemingway had selected the feelings and experiences of this generation to express through his writing. Hemingway like the other…

In Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, an unlucky angler named Santiago sets out on a boat to ascertain his luck and successfully reel in a marlin he finds. Most view Santiago as the main persona of the book, as the tale unfolds through his eyes. However, obstacles, circumstances and thoughts—those involving the old man and not—seem to revolve around one thing: the marlin he pursues. There is obviously no story without the marlin, but there is no Santiago without it, either. Firstly,…