Ernest J. Gaines

If I could spend any of my time with a famous person it would definitely have to be Bill Dance. I chose Bill Dance because he is one that has made my fishing life easier and taught me many things on fishing as well. Bill Dance is someone almost any other fisherman would look up to. Bill knows anything and everything there is to know about bass fishing and more. I chose Bill because being able to fish with someone as skilled as he is would be a dream come true not only because he knows how to…

left to live with the effects of being dehumanized because of all the death they saw. Within three great works about WWI, “Suicide in the Trenches” by Siegfried Sassoon, All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque and “Soldier’s Home” by Ernest Hemingway, there is an universal idea of the dehumanizing aspect of war is shown during the war, at home, and after the war. “Suicide in the Trenches” by Siegfried Sassoon, tells about how the men at war become dehumanized.…

In the book "Between the Savior and the Sea", Peter, or Simon, faces many struggles. But dealing with these difficulties, he is able to strengthen his faith and become a better leader. Faced with abandoning his job, denying Jesus, and temptation from the devil, he passed all of them. Although he was just an ordinary fisherman in the beginning of the story, he grows into a strong, devoted, and faithful apostle of Jesus. The book starts off with Simon trying to catch fish in the middle of the…

Ernest Hemingway is a well-known American writer. He is favored by many for his ability to allow readers to connect the dots for themselves when reading his stories. A hundred different people could read one of his pieces of writing and come up with a hundred different ideas on what he is writing about. In the short story, “Hills Like White Elephants” Ernest Hemingway creates a narrative piece. It is a dialog between an American man and a woman named Jig. The two of them are sitting at a…

The narrator of William Carlos Williams’ “Danse Russe” is presumably the head of a household—a husband and a father to two children. If asked to describe him, one would most likely admit that he is middle-aged, seemingly successful and happy, a bit reserved. These assumptions that he is middle-aged can be rooted in the fact that the narrator has a wife and two children, as seen when he states, “…when my wife is sleeping / and the baby and Kathleen / are sleeping” (“Danse Russe” 1-3), which…

desperation for help to escape the reality he was living in. Ernest Hemingway (1933) composed a part of the story having the younger waiter wanting to close the café early to go home to his wife, and he kicks the older customer out; the older waiter began lecturing the…

Herman Melville's classic novel, Moby Dick, is a well-known tale describing how vengeance ultimately leads to despair and death. The book takes a very critical look at its characters motivations and its overlying message extends far beyond its plot. The novel primarily focuses on the titular whale and the man hunting it, the rest of the characters upstaged by the themes expressed by the duo. The author's most intricate character, by far, has to be the forceful To summarize the events up the…

“There are three things that are brothers: my two hands and the fish.” Santiago, or the old man, states this in the beginning of his voyage with the mighty marlin. This begins to develop the theme of Santiago’s relationship with nature. In my opinion, the best theme in the story. In the beginning, it is briefly mentioned that some of Santiago’s, or the old man’s, fellow fisherman disrespected nature. Santiago had a positive relationship with nature. He had no trouble sleeping outside because he…

Contrary to the popular belief that soldiers are heroic and masculine, in Catch 22, soldiers are depicted as weak and afraid of fighting. Yossarian and his troops avoid fighting by taking multiple trips to Rome and the hospital. The indifference of the characters towards the army, as well as the literary use of paradoxes, and the disorganization of the chapters, impresses upon the reader that the novel Catch 22 is a comical satirization of war. Emphasized throughout the novel, is the troop’s…

Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois on July 21, 1899. He was the first born in his family, his father was a physician and his mother was a Christian scientist. Ernest Hemingway got his first experience with writing while he was attending school writing for the school’s newspaper (Mangum). Hemingway worked for the Kansas City Star as a journalist but realized his passion for fiction (“A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”). In 1918, Hemingway was 18 years old and became a volunteer ambulance…