Ernest Thompson Seton

My night at a local bar. The location of this particular bar is best described as sketchy. Outside of the bar I found vomit, broken glass and trash littered along the fence. The outside of the bar was illuminated with traditional florescent red lights advertising the bar and its specials. People standing outside the entrance in smoke circles talking about their day and sharing cigarettes and joints. This is not a night club, not a dance club, just a good old fashion bar, filled with people from…

Introduction Allen is an Emmy award winner and also a host of a hit prime-time series. He was born on May 20 1965 in Columbus and his current age is fifty. Allen is openly gay and now lives with his partner Barry Rice. He was the food and wine specialist on the amazing Bravo series. Allen is also an American writer and a cookbook author. Allen is a very caring and very supportive guy Allen volunteered to many national and local charities. (Food Network, n.d.) Early Life and Education…

The Unspoken Power Struggle Earnest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” if read as written is a simple conversation about a couple drinking and taking in the scenery around a train station, but when broken down is actually a conversation about abortion. Many critics have analyzed the story from a descriptive and conversational stand point. From a descriptive stance they look at how Hemingway described the setting around the train station, and what the couple has with them. Whereas looking…

story; every action, every word, even every object mentioned. These objects carry with them deeper significance than their physical existence. They are called symbols. Ernest Hemingway fills his story, “Hills Like White Elephants” with an assortment of symbols that help portray the overall theme of the story. Through this symbolism Ernest Hemingway creates the world around the couple waiting for the train and further develops the seemingly petty squabble between them in to a fight against the…

“A Clean, Well Lighted Place” is Hemingway’s paean to a type of existential nihilism, an exploration of the meaning, or lack thereof, of existence. It clearly expresses the philosophy that underlies the Hemingway canon, dwelling on themes of death, futility, meaninglessness, and depression. Through the thoughts and words of a middle-aged Spanish waiter, Hemingway encapsulates the main tenet of his existential philosophy. Life is inherently meaningless and leads inevitably to death, and the older…

Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” is a short story written in 1927 published in “Men with Out Women.” Hemmingway begins this story by describing the surroundings of the characters who are waiting at a train station near the Spanish city of Ebro. Across the valley, there are hills described as looking “long and white” (116 Hemmingway) Hemmingway moves on to describing the train station stating it is treeless and sun-beaten and has parallel rales running across it. The male character…

Hills like white elephants is a story of a couple waiting at a train station in Spain. The couple is facing a big decision, to get an abortion or keep the child. As they talk, the conversation remains very vague and unreassuring. The couple never goes into detail of the abortion. Making the theme of this story: Clear communication is significant to make life decisions without a doubt. Hemingway expands on this theme by using symbolism, Point of view and setting in the story. The symbols clouds…

“How can you complain if you’re alive?” asked Andy Kincain, a former Army Ranger who suffers heavily from PTSD, in the novel, the impossible knife of memory, by Laurie Halse Anderson (Anderson 332). In the novel, the main character Hayley Kincain, the daughter of Andy Kincain have finally decided to try and settle down in Andy’s home town in the hopes of having a somewhat normal life. Hayley finds herself attending normal school after being homeschooled for the past five years while traveling…

In the novel The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway, speaks on the subject of Jake and his life and how he is involved with many people and how these different people impact his life. One specific character is Lady Ashley, also known as Brett. Brett is someone the main character, Jake has a big relationship with from previous years. Brett is someone who Jake introduces as a woman who is in the club with a bunch of males friends. Jake does not like the male friends Brett chooses to hang with. He…

In 1950 the New York Times declared Ernest Hemingway, the most important writer since the death of Shakespeare. By dedicating his life to the ideal of writing one true sentence was the key of literature writing style. He was an icon of his age; he was a war hero in Italy, a white hunter in Africa and an expert deep sea fisherman in Cuba. Grace Hall-Hemingway gave birth to Ernest Hemingway in his grandfather's house, at 8 am, July 21st in Oak Park, Illinois. And like many Victorian children he…