Ernest Hemingway the author of the old man and the sea says it's his best work of writing. It is about an unfortunate old man named Santiago. The old man and the sea and the art of mental training are two very helpful books when it comes to helping you prepare for tough challenges. Having mental toughness is very important for tough events in real life. Santiago shows many traits that resemble toughness. One of them that he shows he is confident in many things. “I am not good for many more turns…
In this slow going, interesting, and action pact book we see a very aged man following his dreams. Many people made fun of Santiago which drove him to go back out to sea. While many of the fisherman find him weak and a lair,we will find him a strong,humble but also in suffering. Santiago was an elderly Cuban fisherman who has had a streak of bad luck for eighty four days. He is very persistent in wanting to catch the “big fish” that will feed him and put money in his pocket. In other words he…
People should figure out what’s best for themselves. “Hills Like White Elephants” was written by Ernest Hemingway. That based on two characters the American man and Jig who were waiting at the humid train station to get to their destination from Madrid to Barcelona. They were seated at the bar inside the train station where they found some shade besides a bamboo bead curtain, refreshing alcohol, and discussed whether or not if Jig should continue on with her procedure. Hemingway had many sets…
Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills like White Elephants” is a short story that tells the conversation of a young lady and older gentleman of the 1920’s. The two characters, Jig and an older American man are being portrayed from a third person point of view and their thoughts and feeling are sometimes questionable throughout the story. Both characters are at a train station in a valley in Spain drinking. The conversation is about a procedure that the young lady is skeptical about having done. Hemingway’s…
In Hemingway’s short story “Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber,’ Hemingway uses the writer’s techniques of perspective to show readers the characterization of the three main protagonists in this story. Hemingway creates a multi-part claim using perspective as well as dialogue to show readers a pervasive, negative tone carried throughout the story. Wilson, Margaret, and Macomber are characterized by multiple perspectives with multiple aspects of their characters. To begin, Wilson shows that…
For Whom the Bell Tolls that gave Hemingway the peak he wanted. It was his most ambitious novel written during that time, but was followed by a decade of literacy silence. During the World War II, Hemingway found his fourth love of his life, Mary Welsh, and together they purchased a house near Cuba. Writers of literacy can be so emotional and full of life, and yet so heartless and distant. This cruel image of the downs in life was depicted so well in his last work during the 1950s - Old Man and…
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…
In Ernest Hemingway’s, “Hills Like White Elephants” symbolism is used throughout the story to give a better understanding of the decision the couple has to make. In the story symbolism is used to better explain that the couple is actually talking about having an abortion and going their separate ways; rather than just a couple waiting for their train with a few drinks. The setting of the story is placed in Ebro, Spain. At the beginning of the story the setting is at a train station in Ebro. By…
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…
Two American lovers embark on a journey together to a foreign nation to cross many boundaries. Full of lust, passion, and 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…