In Our Time

Reading Ernest Hemingway’s In Our Time can be slightly confusing because of the sudden story endings and seemingly choppy and incoherent story line, but linking the stories is the underline appears of war like images. Sometimes these war like images appear in day to day life events. One of these day to day war like images appears in The Battler where readers learn the story of Ad Frances. Ad was once a professional fighter, but he is now very disfigured and presumably lives out near the train tracks. Many different points of Ad’s life coincide with Krebs life in Soldier’s Home. Krebs has just come back from war, and he is trying to go back to living his day to day life. Despite Ad being a professional fighter and Krebs being a war veteran,…

Beginning on page 97 of A Hero of Our Time, a June 5th diary entry marks one of the sections in the chapter, “Princess Mary.” Throughout the novel, more information is uncovered about Pechorin and how he views himself in his society. This diary reveals much of his character especially well because in “Princess Mary” as a whole, it is written from Pechorin’s point-of-view. Within this singular diary entry, several clues are revealed to take apart Pechorin for who he really is. First, at an…

George Sand’s Indiana and Mikhail Lermontov’s A Hero of Our Time interrogate the conflict between individual and collective identity in the nineteenth century through presenting the individual as a site of ambiguity and hybridity that disrupts the supposed coherence and homogeneity of the collective identities cultivated by national and colonial power relations. Collective identity attempts to bound and border individuals within binary categories, presenting groups defined by national, ethnic,…

declines the prompt and would rather keep his life simple and not be involved. Throughout this story the setting remains the same but you get a general understanding of what it was like overseas. As you read the story you may find yourself responding in your head to some of the events as you read. For example, “By the time Krebs returned to his hometown in Oklahoma the greeting of heroes was over. He came back much too late. The men in town who had been drafted had all be welcomed elaborately on…

“Big Two Hearted River: Part 1,” a chapters in Ernest Hemingway’s In Our Time, reads like a third-person narrative of a young man’s camping trip in the wilderness. However, through close examination of the details in the story, it slowly comes to light that the events that transpire in the young man’s excursions are somewhat related to his experiences in war. Hemingway’s account observes how war changes an individual as they return home, thus leaving them unsettled. Nick, our protagonist, isn’t…

Hemingway’s usage of rivers as a symbol of time occurs in the stories “Big Two Hearted River,” and “Hills Like White Elephants.” “Big Two Hearted River” is a story about Nick Adams and his postwar life. The story is centered in the small burned down town of Seney and Nick is trying to get away and relieve his mind of his always constant memories. In “Big Two Hearted River” the river functions as a symbol of time because the trout, which represent Nick’s thoughts, are trying hard to swim steady…

Big Two-Hearted River In Ernest Hemingway’s “Big Two-Hearted River” Nick returned from to the war only to head back to his old favorite fishing spot. Even though Nick has not been around this place in a while and knows the town in the distance, burnt down, he still gets that feeling that he is home despite the idea that even his hometown seemed destroyed by the war. Hemingway states, “He felt he had left everything behind, the need for thinking, the need to write, other needs, it was all back…

In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway is a collection of short stories that follow Nick Adams as young boy, through his time in WWI, as well when he is all grown up after the war. The novel starts off with an evacuation going on on a pier in Turkey where Turkish soldiers are evacuating people. We are not presented with a concrete setting other than it being World War I. Americans soldiers are helping the Turkish evacuate after bombing them in the previous quarter of the war but this is how alliances…

can be viewed by the readers as mean or informative based on the individual person. For a person who is studying to become a teacher, this book gives mixed messaged for our day and age. Given that Monro Leaf is an amazing author and the “Can Be Fun…” books are very informative and helpful for young children. This book “Being an American Can Be Fun” can be viewed as offensive in the time we live in now. Leaf had covered many topics in his book ranging from democracy to values of an American to…

In The Hero of Our Time, Pechorin uses fate as an answer when it is convenient and this bars him from developing a sense of responsibility. Lermontov helps us understand Pechorin’s stance on fate when we read the story of the Fatalist inside Pechorin’s journals; we learn of the inconsistency in Pechorin’s metaphysical beliefs, and how they affect his attitude to consequences of his actions. Pechorin’s statements constantly flip-flop between belief and doubt in fatalism. Pechorin takes a stance…