Ernest Thompson Seton

probably the most influential part of the creation of a child’s identity is family. When a kid needs somebody to ask a question or look to for help, it is usually the parents because they are the ones who were there for them their entire lives. In Ernest Hemingway’s “Three Shots,” Nick Adams calls his father in from a fishing trip because he was scared of being alone out in the woods. Since young children have not grasped their entire identity, parents are able to help them find it.…

The SS Exodus 1947 was a ship that carried Jewish emigrants from France to British Mandatory Palestine on July 11, 1947. Most of the emigrants were Holocaust survivors who had no legal immigration certificates for Palestine. Following wide media coverage, the British Royal Navy seized the ship and deported all its passengers back to Europe. In the same period, the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine visited Palestine to assess the conflict between the Jews and Arabs, trying to find a…

to be heard. There is nothing worse than manifesting your heart and feelings only to feel dismissed and disappointed each and every time; it takes two for communication to be insightful and have purpose. In his story, “Hills Like White Elephants,” Ernest Hemingway demonstrates a woman named Jig’s conflict of choice: whether or not she should have an operation that is insinuated as an abortion in order to keep her lover, referred to as “the American,” happy and maintain the relationship as it was…

relationships have been known to capture our hearts for decades. But what lies beneath the surface of these seemingly wonderful pairings can only be shown through the characters themselves. In the classic short story Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway, characters play an important and necessary role. With little plot or background information to follow, readers must rely on the descriptions of the main characters and their surroundings to understand the tone of the writing. This…

The Big Two-Hearted River by Ernest Hemingway is a brilliant story about a man (Nick) on a fishing trip (Hemingway). This story is full of vibrant landscapes as well as other mental images (Svoboda 34). The author of the story Ernest Hemingway is one of America’s greatest literary figures. He was also a Veteran of World War I and it is that experience that shaped the underlying message in this story (Adair 585). From the burnt town and surrounding landscape of Seney to the ominous swamp at the…

The Monster Fish One day my dad and I woke up and hit the road. We woke up at five thirty in the morning. We drove for about forty five minutes with nothing but corn fields and houses. When we started on the the road we stopped by the gas station and got us some donuts and the hit the water. We got on the water and then suddenly I realized that we forgot water and we were going to be on the water all day long. At this point in time my dad and I made our first cast. We were fishing with a drop…

Texas, so hot and humid. But under all that rancid heat, is something to assemble amazing memories in and to enjoy. Going to Texas, we saw a lot of beautiful things, some I’ve never seen before. I saw a lot of colorful lizards and frogs, very tall palm trees, and the dark blue ocean! When we first arrived in Texas, I got to see my grandparents and cousins over Thanksgiving. We faced divine meals and large amounts of desert, too! We also got to go fishing on a lake since my grandparents house…

Martha Gellhorn was a war correspondent and covered many wars in her lifetime from the Spanish Civil War to the United States Invasion in Panama. Martha began covering wars when she met an aspiring writer of the time, Ernest Hemingway who took Martha with him to cover the Spanish Civil War which sparked a fire in her to cover wars. Although Martha is most known through her war novels, she is also best known for her short stories and other novels as well. Martha a well rounded traveler ventured…

The Natural Order Introduction The natural order, as I see it, represents the set of laws that govern the natural world around us. These laws are sometimes at odds with the laws that we in civilized society have set forth. In Ernest Hemingway’s short story, “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber”, he gives us a glimpse of how certain individuals would act if civilized society were to collapse around them. In this story there is no societal standards, only the laws that govern the natural…

Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises is a novel which allows readers to interpret the numerous ways in which the author’s conception of authenticity, truth, and purity are expressed. Hemingway write through the character of Jake to reassert the importance of authenticity in ideas such as faith and religion, nature, and masculinity. I believe that The Sun Also Rises is a novel that flawlessly depicts the frailties of war and how its implications leaves those involved in an eternal state of…