Patrick Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway once said ”there is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.” In the story “Indian Camp” Nick, his father and his uncle George travel to an Indian Camp where there is a woman who is having trouble in labor. When approached, the woman is screaming on top of her lungs. Nick asks why, and his father has to explain to him that she is in labor. Nick has an uneasy feeling and keeps looking away. Nick’s father started…

get that point across, for example F Scott Fitzgerald, “You don 't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say”. Among many of the famous Modernist writers, Ernest Hemingway played a significant part in the influential movement. In Indian Camp, Hemingway uses his modernist techniques to construct a simple work of literature…

feasted (or perhaps forcefully overindulged) my eyes upon. I guess it just wasn’t quite my cup of sea. This novella was written by Ernest Hemingway, who is widely known to have this obsession with death, at least in his novels. He had a distaste for war believing it was tragic and horrible. He killed himself July 2nd, 1961 by shotgun. Now, I make these ideas Hemingway had and these quite depressive and…

a way for the author to represent their ideas to their readers. Or, it also can signify a metaphor in a person’s life of different objects and people. In the novel The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, there are many people and objects used as symbols. The use of those figures are a way Hemingway uses to communicate with his readers and give another meaning to his narrative. Also, he creates a link with his readers because the symbols acts as a metaphor in the reader 's’ life, which they…

The American economy during the 1920s flourished while the lives of the American people turned lively and prosperous. Those apart of the American society grew to put a monetary value on everything, and many placed importance on leisure activities and earning more wealth. Many did not see the negatives of their actions, something many writers tried to embody in their works. Many modernist prose works of the 1920s have the common theme of people believing that money can fix problems occurring in…

views on a life changing experience. In his, Ernest Hemingways, simple, modern short story, “Hills Like White Elephants”, It starts off with the two characters,a couple. An American, and a girl, Jig, are having a few drinks at a train station, and end up discussing an operation as they wait for their train. Neither of them wants to come out and express his or her feelings, but making it clear nevertheless throughout the story. Ernest Hemingway uses different symbols in his story to teach his…

“Hills Like White Elephant”: Dominance and persuasion. In Ernest Hemingway’s complex short story “Hills Like White Elephant” , two characters also known as The American and The girl (Jig) argue with each other in order to effectively reach a compromise on whether Jig should participate in a life altering operation. The American’s attempt to convince The Girl (Jig) to have an abortion is what eventually leads to their failed relationship. Jig and the American have a series of conversations…

The Will to Survive is Worth the Chance of Life Everyday is a fight for life and with the will to live you are one of the strongest people left on Earth. The book The Road by Cormac McCarthy has many examples of life and death situations about a boy and his father during an apocalypse. They want to make a journey to the ocean where it is safer and warmer, but they have to deal with cannibals, hunger and sickness throughout this journey. They end up making it to the ocean and this was only…

Beaches, Blood, and Ballots by Gilbert R. Mason, M.D. Chapter Three: Going Home to Serve This chapter relates the period that Dr. Gilbert R. Mason began his long and arduous journey through the Civil Rights movement and the start of his contributions to that movement. While finishing his internship in St. Louis in 1945, Dr. Mason was made aware of an opportunity to purchase a practice from a doctor that was moving away from Biloxi, Mississippi. Dr. Velma Wesley, a practicing female physician,…

Strength, honor, soldier, Olympian, and Christian are words that describe Louie Zamperini. Laura Hillenbrand writes about the life of Louie and the traumatic events that he endured through World War II. In Laura Hillenbrand’s novel, “Unbroken- A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption” readers will explore how Louie Zamperini’s character and inner strength helped him become an Olympic athlete, survive imprisonment as a Japanese Prisoner of War (POW) and turn his life around…