Patrick Hemingway

“Antlers” and “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” - Compare/Contrast Rick Bass and Ernest Hemingway are two superb writers who created very different stories that hold the same values. Both stories have varying amounts of similarities and differences, such as motifs and themes, but in the end the pieces ultimately show how isolation and a meaningless storyline can represent something more than what it seems. By including the author 's life experiences and background, the final thoughts about each…

A living person is identified as someone that is a living creature, that includes having a range of emotions that distinguish character traits. A book that showcases this successfully is “The Old Man and the Sea” a novel written by Ernest Hemingway that was published on September 1, 1952. It tells the story of a fisherman named Santiago that has had no luck in catching fish in 84 days. There is also a boy named Manolin, and together they help each other in many ways until one day Manolin leaves…

The short story, The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway, is about a unlucky fisherman named Santiago. Everyone in the village thinks badly about him because it has been so long since he has caught a fish. Santiago has an apprentice named Manolin. Manolin still fishes and learns from Santiago despite Santiago’s bad reputation throughout the village. After Santiago has a dream about his childhood, Santiago takes his boat out further than any other fisherman has gone before. As Santiago is…

Old Man and The Sea vs Finding Forrester Ernest Hemingway once wrote in his popular story The Old Man and The Sea,“Man can be destroyed but not defeated.” This can relate so clearly to not only the story, but another film, Finding Forrester. With each story, there were two very diverse plot lines. However, they seem to meet exceptionally when it comes to a variety of examples, including the relationships between the characters, the main characters’ courageousness, and the theme application to…

Ernest Hemingway uses symbolism in “Hills Like White Elephants’’ to illustrate the difficulties a couple is facing in making an important decison about their lives. Jig, the girl, is pregnant and her boyfriend, called the American, wants her to have an abortion. Each symbol represents the two ways the couple can go and their struggle to make a decision with which both parties will be happy. The most obvious symbol in this story are the white hills which, according to Jig, look like white…

desire, the pair enjoy themselves in the country of Spain while experiencing more with each other than the formulated travel guide’s intent suggested. At a train station, or a crossroads, their lustful escapade ends and the two go separate ways. Hemingway in the “Hills Like White Elephants” accurately displays the masculinity found in his own life as well as the difficulty of building perpetual relationships. This short story contains distinct symbolism and diction that allude to the basis for…

"Discuss the apparent simplicity of Hemingway's style. Is it as simple as it first appears? How does Hemingway convey subtle and complex feelings? What role does imagery play in multiplying implications?" Ernest Hemingway is simplistic in the way that his books read, yet the content is a little more complex. Hemingway writes as if the words and thoughts are coming directly from the characters; so this makes it easy for his readers to follow along with the story. Both Norton and Cain…

In the novel The old man and the ocean, the primary character name is Santiago. Santiago is an old man in the story and a talented angler in his calling. This old man is thin and emaciated. There are profound wrinkles in the back of his neck. He has cocoa blotches on his cheeks. His hands have profound wrinkled scars from taking care of substantial fish. Every little thing about him is old aside from his eyes that are of the shade of the ocean and are merry and undefeated. . By identity,…

loneliness and want of friendship. Throughout the novel the old man longs to have the boy on the boat with him to keep him company. An example of this can be seen when the old man thinks, "But you haven't got the boy...You have only yourself..." (Hemingway 52). His constant want of the boy demonstrates his need for companionship and friendship. The age contrast between the two characters draws attention to their friendship. If the characters were the same age the relationship could be easily…

“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…