Ernest Thompson Seton

Ernest Hemingway’s collection of short stories, In Our Time, contains many symbols and topics about the future, and more specifically about how events don’t always go as planned. Many of those symbols are expressed in the short stories “Indian Camp,” “The Three Day Blow,” and “Big Two-Hearted River: Part 1.” People may have a plan for their future, but they can never know exactly what’s going to happen is a big theme that is expressed throughout Hemingway’s collection. One of the first stories…

When an author wants to portray something a certain way they have to use literary and rhetorical devices to lead the reader through the book. In A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway uses imagery, diction, foreshadowing and many other literary devices to send the reader through the lives of the characters. The devices Hemingway uses makes the characters become more realistic to the reader. With this being said the purpose of Hemingway’s writing is to give the reader a visual sense of the…

Ernest Miller Hemingway wrote many novels, short stories and he was an all-American journalist. His stories were mostly known to be fiction and he was a good enough author to win the Nobel Prize in literature in 1954. In his two stories, “Cat in the Rain,” and “Hills like White Elephants,” he uses the theme of marriage between husband and wife and what each person wants and how their wants throw some conflict with what their spouse would like. In both stories, it would seem as if the husband in…

Endurance by Alfred Lansing is an intense, attention-grabbing story based on Sir Ernest Shackleton’s attempt to be the first person to ever cross the continent of Antarctica. Ernest Shackleton was an Irish Explorer who specialized to explorations to the Artic region. His first exploration to the Artic region was under the command of Robert Scott from 1901-1903. Six years later, he was knighted for commanding the successful British Antarctica Expedition that began in 1907 and ended in 1909. On…

Kilimanjaro,” Harry and his wife Helen, become stranded on a safari in Africa after one of the bearings in their truck burned out. Africa was not a final destination for Harry but Fate has ultimately made this his final resting ground. In this story, Ernest Hemingway demonstrates the theme of death using irony, metaphors, symbolism and images. Death is the main theme in “The snows of Kilimanjaro,” Even before Hemingway’s takes us through Harry’s journey, he describes the leopard who is…

For Whom the Bell Tolls Research Paper Mankind can still find love even when surrounded by loss and inevitable death, if one is willing. Love can be presented anywhere and at anytime. Ernest Hemingway expresses this in his novel For Whom The Bell Tolls through the characterization of Robert Jordan and Maria, the symbolism of the snow, and the situational irony of the ending. CHARACTERIZATION Furthermore, Hemingway portrays the character Robert Jordan as a hard, fearless, and noble man, whose…

In life people can relate to certain short stories because most relate to everyday life. I felt “Hills like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway and “Good People” by David Wallace Foster are two short stories with similar themes that are true everyday issues couples face. In the story “Hills like White Elephant” the American girl, Jig, is pregnant. She is described to be in a train station with who is supposed to be her boyfriend. She is faced with a dilemma of whether or not to have an…

World War I was one of the most tragic wars in world history up to that time. Some of the deadliest weapons and tactics were used in this war that killed nearly a whole generation of young men. These young men were influenced to join a fight that seemed like a great adventure, but it turned out to be one of the most horrific experiences a person can have. The injuries of war might be drastic, but Paul and his comrades do not focus on the past and how the got injured. They focus on the present…

“Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway uses the Modernist elements of dialect while focusing on the concrete parts of it's story and setting, along with the strong sense of alienation that comes from the characters. Hemingway uses the Modernist style of only focusing on concrete details and using dialect to keep things to the point, even if it's in a bit of an elusive way. He doesn't mention it directly in the story, but it becomes apparent the “The American and the girl with him”,…

Ernest Hemingway’s short story, Banal Story, juxtaposes the difference between flashy headlines found in stories and articles, and the raw truth of reality. The story is set with an unnamed writer (who remains unnamed through the story’s entirety) sitting at his writing spot, eating oranges and watching the snow. Hemingway starts the story off this way to show the realty of the unnamed writers life. The beginning of this short story parallels the ending by concluding the story with a forum about…