Ernest Shackleton

According to Edgar Allan Poe, in his essay titled “The Philosophy of Composition,” a short story should be read in one sitting, anywhere from a half hour to two hours. A short story is a brief fictional prose narrative that is shorter than a novel and it only usually deals with only a few characters, according to Brittannica. With it becoming shorter, it only usually focuses on one plot, with usually only one main character and with one theme. Basically, most short stories share basic elements…

The difference between betterment and development stems from the concept that, “Betterment gives a man a fish, development teaches a man how to fish.” This phrase supports that development offers immediate relief, whereas development offers solutions to the cause of the societal issue. Lupton explains that, development requires the building of relationships and critical thinking due to the complexity of a vast amount of societal issues. Due to the critical thinking involved in development, as…

Although John Knowles’s novel, A Separate Peace, is set in the midst of WWII, there is a lack of the typical violence and combat associated with the war. However, Knowles uses wartime themes to depict the personal battles the protagonist is forced to face. The most prevalent of the wartimes themes present in the main characters of the novel are feelings of hostility and enmity. This demonstrates that the war, although not physically occurring with the United States, is still taking a toll on…

Boys in the Boat and Night are two very different books and people, yet they share the same struggles/tragedies and morals. In Boys in the Boat, by Daniel James Brown, nine boys compete in rowing races and experience tough challenges and hard work. After all the rowing practice, they soon make it to Berlin to row in the Olympics. In Night, by Elie Wiesel, Elie and his family go through very tough times being Jewish and fearing Germans and basically losing trust in everyone. Joe Rantz and Elie…

The short story, The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway, is about a unlucky fisherman named Santiago. Everyone in the village thinks badly about him because it has been so long since he has caught a fish. Santiago has an apprentice named Manolin. Manolin still fishes and learns from Santiago despite Santiago’s bad reputation throughout the village. After Santiago has a dream about his childhood, Santiago takes his boat out further than any other fisherman has gone before. As Santiago is…

As part of the exposition in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, the narrator vividly describes the setting. He explains that he is in a boat with five men, one of which being the storyteller, Marlow. The narrator then goes on to create a descriptive image of his surroundings in the boat on the river. Throughout this description, Conrad uses foreshadowing, imagery, connotative words, symbolism, and personification, creating a shift in tone, in order to illustrate that Marlow’s journey up the…

Someone once said, “All of us are looking for an escape; usually, we find it in each other.” This proves to be true for both of the main characters in Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, Frederic Henry and Catherine Barkley – Frederic’s escape from the war and Catherine’s escape from her fiancé’s death the year prior. In Joel Armstrong’s article, “‘A Powerful Beacon’: Love Illuminating Human Attachment in Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms,” he argues that “love is the centering principle of…

Chapter Review 5: Anthony’s Story: From Radical to Bohemian to Suit Me A.) Summary and Reaction Anthony is a multicultural man, who is of Italian, Hungarian, Scottish, Irish, English, and French ancestry. He identifies himself as an Italian American for short and was struggling with his self-concept throughout his story. I myself can relate to being multiracial, as I have mentioned before, this is one of the reasons I selected his story. He also struggled with conforming and moving away from…

“Soldier’s Home” Soldier's Home by Ernest Hemingway paints the picture of a very small town where people are more interested in fables compared to reality. The titular home in "Soldier's Home" is not a post-war veteran home, but rather, the childhood home of Harold Krebs, a Marine officer. The author portrays a world widely divided in two sects of people: the ones who have been to war, and the ones who have not. The ones who went to war struggle to find meaning in the things they once enjoyed,…

Question 1 In The Catcher in the Rye written by J.D Salinger, there is the first person narrative given my Holden Caulfield. We will discuss what his narration reveals about the Holden and his character as well as whether we can trust his narrative. Salinger also uses the settings in which the Holden finds himself, and the symbolism of the ducks and fish in the lagoon to illustrate Holden’s feelings of loss and isolation. The setting I have chosen to consider in terms of his isolation which is…