Ernest J. Gaines

make happen in our lives. The question is though, are you going to give up immediately when obstacles come your way, or family, friends, and peers start talking you out out of your goal? The Old Man though, in the book, “The Old Man and the Sea”, by Ernest Hemingway, didn’t doubt himself one bit as he persisted to reach his goal. Hemingway wanted to teach his readers lessons about specific things about life in his book, “ Old Man and the Sea”. He wanted to teach his readers to have faith in…

luck anymore. But who knows? Maybe today,”(32). In the novel the Old Man and the Sea, written by Ernest Hemingway, the main theme is not giving up and persevering through the hardships that the old man encounters. Throughout the story, there were many instances where the old man could 've given up, but in the end knew he couldn 't. Not giving up was demonstrated through pain and suffering. Ernest Hemingway told us readers about the importance of life through his literary work.…

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Macomber hastily flees when coming face to face with a lion, while Wilson chooses to stand his ground and fight. As a result, Macomber is shamed by the other characters in the story, including his own wife, whereas Wilson is praised. Therefore, in Ernest Hemingway's “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber”, the notion that a happy life is truly fulfilled when one lives a life of danger and adventure, rather than a life of running away from one’s problems is proven. This belief is especially…

In the article Simply, Chamorro: Telling Tales of Demise and Survival in Guam by Vicente M Diaz, he narrates the history of Guam through various tales. The tales describe the culture of Guam, narrates how Guam is before and after the war. Furthermore, they also recount how the war erased Guam’s culture. Specifically, the tales indicate that this drastic change in Guam’s culture was caused by American capitalistic and military oriented perspectives, and cultural assimilation. This is significant…

Two amazing authors with very different writing styles have written about the wilderness and its many unknowns. One of the authors, Jon Krakauer, is the writer of the article, Death of an Innocent, which is a non-fictional piece about an adventurous boy who met his doom in the Bush of Alaska. The other author is Peter Stark, the writer of Thirst, a story about an abandoned man in the Sahara desert stricken with dehydration. Although they both wrote about the outdoors, their writing style is what…

Courageous or Fearful??? Throughout the book Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, written by Jamie Ford, Henry the main character displays courage even though he is scared. As stated by Lou Gehring, " Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is being afraid and doing it anyway." For example, he walks Keiko home from school every day to the Japanese side of town where he isn't accepted and he disobeys his father in order to stand up for his own dreams. Henry also displays courage when he…

In Our Redeployment In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway along with Redeployment by Phil Klay, both discuss the truth of war that connects to their readers in a special way. Each novel, with its own set of short stories describes the tragedy, tasks, and emotional toll war takes on the life of its veterans and civilians. This is shared through both author’s unique indirect style of writing. Klay and Hemingway focus on the depiction of war in another light by using the art of omission, hoping to…

Looking at Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” we will just see a couple arguing about abortion and whether the girl would go through with it. The couple believes that when Jig goes through with the abortion the relationship will automatically fall back to the blissful state it was before the obstruction of the baby come along. Hemingway said, “And if I do it you’ll be happy and things will be like they were and you’ll love me” (361). The girl is willing to go through with abortion,…

According to the world renowned author Ernest Hemingway, a hero is “A man who lives correctly, following the ideals of honor, courage and endurance in a world that is sometimes chaotic, often stressful, and always painful” (Miles). Who is a chaotic and stressful hero in your eyes? Wolverine? Deadpool? These characters relate to Frederic Henry because they are not traditional heroes. An average day in any of these heroes shoes are almost the complete opposite of normal. All of Hemingway’s…