He experienced two world wars. ... On the whole, the story can be divided into parts. ... The writer does not tell us the name of the character he is talking about. ... "How brave and ferocious Joe DiMaggio is!" ... The old man is worthy of the title "true winner" because "A true winner, should be the perfect combination of self-confidence and steadfastness." ...
Ernest Hemingway's "Soldier's Home" is a story of a soldier who returns from World War I as a transformed person. ... Hemingway fell into this norm of lying about war experience, which eventually made him sick of disgust: the deception he practiced at home uncomfortably remind him of the lies he and others have been forced to tell in order to sensationalize for home consumption the dull reality of war (Mayers, 55). ... As pointed out by Defalco, "He is forced to tell lies about his war experience in order to gain the approval of his associates" (140). Similar po...
Composition 1023 "Ernest Hemingway: How His Novels Tell of His Real Life Story" Ernest Hemingway, who was born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1899, was legend in his own time, and is now a legend in our time. Hemingway was a rugged man in the true sense, and his writings show this. ... An overview of The Sun Also Rises describes Barnes as having "a calculated view of the events in the story and is sure to relate, minutia, such as how much things cost, who owes whom, how to bait the hook, and what is in the packed lunch" (Literature Resource Center 5). ... His writing often reflects one of his bel...
Toward the end of World War II, Hemingway participated in some of the bloodiest fighting of the war, the invasion of Normandy. ... It tells the bittersweet story of Richard Cantwell, a former brigadier general who has been demoted to colonel after a disastrous battle, which had been blamed on him. ... The Old Man and the Sea, tells the story of an old Cuban fisherman named Santiago, who after going eighty-six days of not catching anything finally catches a giant marlin. ... How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well writ...
This is why one must read and reread him to enjoy the true flavor of his writing. ... Moreover, the story is also about a conflicted mother-son relationship. ... Descriptions of Krebs' lack of involvement with the local girls occupy one fourth of the story. ... Another key inference by Hemingway to the building of Harold Kreb's character during the war is one of the photographs discussed in the story's opening paragraphs that suggest an unsatisfactory experience with German girls. ... As Tim O"Brian writes in his "How to tell a war story": "A true war story is never moral. ...
The main theme of the novel is about "the lost generation- and how they came out of a war with their hopes and dreams smashed. ... Another minor theme is how sex can be destructive. ... If the story did not take place during the time of "the lost generation- then the story would not at all be based on the aimlessness of that specific generation. ... Jake is an aimless and bitter man and is a true image of "the lost generation."" ... Hemingway often wrote his stories and novels on past events during his life. ...
e story is told. ... Jake is unable to live the life that he wants with Brett, because of the injury he incurred during the War. ... She did however, in Romero's best interests, set aside her own true feelings for him, and tells him to go, "He only left yesterday. ... He is always drunk and doesn't harbor any true feelings towards Brett, even though they're engaged. ... She knows that she could have kept him, but it only would have dragged him down and that it wasn't the right thing to do, "Nothing to tell. ...
Its realism and humanness, short simple phrases, and true to life pauses and breaks in thought draw the reader quickly into the story. ... In truth the café that provides the location of the opening seen could have been set nearly anywhere without a great deal of difficulty but post war Spain (Europe in truth but Spain in this particular story) provides a number of readily available images that would not be especially common ifh the story had been placed elsewhere. ... The café does however provide the source of Hemingway's nearly hidden comments as to how the nothingnes...
