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The short story by Ernest Hemingway, â€Å"The Snows of Kilimanjaro† in about, man, Harry, who is on vacation with his wife, Helen, and unfortunately struck with gangrene. When the disease starts to spread trough his body, Harry begins to reflect on his life. Hemmingway expresses the theme that most humans should have some respect for one another, as well as respect for themselves, because they way people treat each other plays a major in their death; plus, be aware that death can come at any given moment. Since Harry completely failed to secure a past love in his life, he attempts to recapture that flame and also try to fill the void by disrespecting some people and stealing another man’s women. When Harry is in Paris, he goes to a bar and picks up on women and then decided that he is unsatisfied with this woman and steals a different woman from a British solider. â€Å"And that night missing her so much it made him feel hollow sick inside, he wandered up past Maxim’s, to pick girl up and took her out to dinner’ (13). So Harry is totally sad and depressed with the fact that his one true love is gone and tries to fill that empty space in his life with some random women he comes across of the streets. But when he was on this date with this women he was not satisfied with this women so he feels it is important to steal another mans female. ‘He gone to the place to dance with her afterward, she danced badly, and left her for an Armenian slut that swung her b elly against him so it almost scalded. He took her away from a British gunner† (13). Even through Harry can get any women he chooses, he also craves other men’s property. â€Å"Harry’s thoughts are not merely of personal loss, but are also the and losses he has witnessed in the lives of others, even in the lives of nations. Thus, his vision pf life is a universal one and hence is a significant comment on life not jus a personal petulance† (Meyers pg. 19). Harry attempts ... Free Essays on Ernest Hemingway Free Essays on Ernest Hemingway There are many connections between Ernest Hemingway’s life and his literary works, starting with his short stories all the way up to his most famous novels. The Nick Adams stories are short stories that tell the story of Ernest Hemingway’s life. These stories consist of many things, from camping with his father, to witnessing his first birth and death. Also they include Hemingway being out on the battlefield during World War I. The Nick Adams stories sum up his life and how he lived it. Hemingway’s family was fairly normal. Hemingway’s mother, Grace Hall, tried to civilize her children. This is probably the reason why she wanted Ernest to become a musician. On the other hand, his father exposed the boys to more masculine things like hunting, fishing, and living in the woods. Hemingway’s father, Clarence Edmond, was a physician. This may be the reason he tried to convince Ernest into studying medicine. Hemingway was a man of many contradictions and of a very long-winded nature. He worked as a reported for the Kansas City Star. In 1918 during World War I, he served as a Red Cross Volunteer in Italy as an ambulance driver and canteen deliver. While driving an ambulance one-day he was seriously wounded. This suggests why his writing emphasized physical and psychological violence and a need for courage. Hemingway was very good at identifying with the common people and capturing them in their speech patterns. This is sought to be the reason why in 1921, he went to Paris. While there he met a group of American authors and became a principle spokesman for a group of disillusioned young writers called the â€Å"Lost Generation†. In 1927 when Hemingway returned to the United States, he married Pauline Pfeiffer, mother of his two younger sons. He divorced her in 1940 and married the writer, Martha Gellhorn. Hemingway wrote a series of short stories called the Nick Adams stories. These stories were written about He... Free Essays on Ernest Hemingway ERNEST MILLER HEMINGWAY Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Chicago, Illinois. He was born at eight o’clock and weighed nine pounds and eight ounces and he was twenty-three inches long. His father Dr. Clarence Hemingway, he was a fervent member of the First Congregation church. Ernest was christened at this church on October first, on his parent’s third wedding anniversary. When Ernest was six years old his grandfather died. After the death of his grandfather he and his family moved to a new house. This house had three stories and eight bedrooms. Growing up in the Hemingway wasn’t easy. No one in the house was allowed to anything enjoyable on the Sabbath Day, all you could was worship God. Lashes from a razor strap or a hairbrush were the punishment for bad behavior. Ernest developed into a well-rounded young man. Everything he done had to be done right. He attended Oak Park and River Township High School. Ernest enjoyed English and received good grades, but he was uninterested in other subjects. During high school he enjoyed boxing, canoeing, and writing articles for his school newspaper. After graduation he wanted to join the services or learn to write. Ernest got a job at the Kansas City Star after high school. Ernest’s job on the star was to cover the ‘short-stop run’ this entailed the Fifteenth Street Police Station, Union Station, and General Hospital. He was trained by a manual that declared good writing. He learned that good writer didn’t ramble on about things. Before long he grew bored with news stories, and wanted to become part of the war to see some real action. The only problem was he had a deficiency in his left eye and didn’t know if he could enter the war because of this problem. Ernest learned from a fellow reporter that he could be accepted, so he applied. Ernest applied for the position of ambulance driver. A few weeks after applying he got ... Free Essays on Ernest Hemingway Discovering a Subject It’s very important to be your own person. Ernest Hemingway is an author who is known for being generally disliked amongst most teenagers. I like his writings. I had previously read For Whom the Bell Tolls by Hemingway and enjoyed its wartime setting and surprise ending. Before I read any of Hemingway’s short stories I had assumed that all his stories were in wartime settings. For most of his stories this is true, but I was surprised at how many weren’t during a war. I have chosen four of Hemingway’s short pieces to analyze. After reading and taking notes on common themes and literary elements for many Hemingway stories I have decided to use â€Å"The Snows of Kilimanjaro†, â€Å"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber†, â€Å"Soldier’s Home† and â€Å"In Another Country†. â€Å"The Snows of Kilimanjaro† is about a man Harry, and his wife, Helen. It takes place in Africa during a hunting trip. Harry has developed gangrene from what started as a small scratch in his leg. Harry is barely alive and welcoming death at the start of the story. He soon fears death as he realizes he wants to live. When death is brought to his camp for him in the form of a hyena, he succumbs to death and dies in the end. â€Å"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber† also takes place in Africa on a Safari. The main characters are husband and wife also, Francis and Margaret. Francis has lost his pride and his wife’s affection because he was too cowardly to kill a charging Lion. Wilson, the safari guide and hunter, is left to kill the lion himself. Wilson’s occupation and courage are attractive to Margaret who then sleeps with him. Francis is aware that she has had many lovers before and this incident only tears the couple apart further. The story en ds with Francis trying to redeem his pride by chasing down a buffalo. They think he has finally killed it when it suddenly charges them again and brushes Francis on the head. At th... Free Essays on Ernest Hemingway The short story by Ernest Hemingway, â€Å"The Snows of Kilimanjaro† in about, man, Harry, who is on vacation with his wife, Helen, and unfortunately struck with gangrene. When the disease starts to spread trough his body, Harry begins to reflect on his life. Hemmingway expresses the theme that most humans should have some respect for one another, as well as respect for themselves, because they way people treat each other plays a major in their death; plus, be aware that death can come at any given moment. Since Harry completely failed to secure a past love in his life, he attempts to recapture that flame and also try to fill the void by disrespecting some people and stealing another man’s women. When Harry is in Paris, he goes to a bar and picks up on women and then decided that he is unsatisfied with this woman and steals a different woman from a British solider. â€Å"And that night missing her so much it made him feel hollow sick inside, he wandered up past Maxim’s, to pick girl up and took her out to dinner’ (13). So Harry is totally sad and depressed with the fact that his one true love is gone and tries to fill that empty space in his life with some random women he comes across of the streets. But when he was on this date with this women he was not satisfied with this women so he feels it is important to steal another mans female. ‘He gone to the place to dance with her afterward, she danced badly, and left her for an Armenian slut that swung her b elly against him so it almost scalded. He took her away from a British gunner† (13). Even through Harry can get any women he chooses, he also craves other men’s property. â€Å"Harry’s thoughts are not merely of personal loss, but are also the and losses he has witnessed in the lives of others, even in the lives of nations. Thus, his vision pf life is a universal one and hence is a significant comment on life not jus a personal petulance† (Meyers pg. 19). Harry attempts ... Free Essays on Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway lived his life to the fullest. He experienced more than any other man. Since not many people traveled as much as Ernest, Ernest shared his experiences in books. In â€Å"The Snows of Kilimanjaro†, â€Å"Hills like White Elephants†, and â€Å"In Another Country†, Ernest Hemingway uses a great deal of dialogue to help the reader identify with the characters in the story to show the reader how he perceives the situation of his experiences. In Ernest Hemingway’s short story, â€Å"In Another Country†, a man is shocked by reality when he hurt his leg in World War I. This short story is primarily described with dialogue between the wounded man and other injured patience in the hospital. The short story takes place in Milan, Italy, in the middle of winter, during World War I. The events in â€Å"In Another Country†, that are discussed relate to Ernest’s experiences as a Red Cross ambulance driver. One night when Ernest decided to work a longer shift in the trenches, a bomb exploded right next to him. The only thing between Ernest and the bomb was a soldier. Without even thinking, Ernest immediately begin carrying the injured men out of the trench. While Ernest was carrying a man, he was shot in the knee. In â€Å"In Another Country† Ernest describes his experiences in the hospital in Milan. Even though it is never said the narrator in the story is obviously Ernest. The dialogue between the Italian major and the narrator of the story, first is focused on the majors hand injury, and the machines that are suppose to provide the miracle cure for the major’s and the narrator’s injuries. But what the reader quickly learns is that the major suffers not from the injury of his hand, but the loss of his wife. The machines becomes a hollow promise with unbelievable photographs with miracle cures, but the message is the majors life is empty with the loss of his wi... Free Essays on Ernest Hemingway Ernest M. Hemingway Do you ever ask yourself what makes life meaningful? For American novelist and short-story writer Ernest Hemingway, it was courage. The characters in his works might not win, but they always live and die bravely. Hemingway told it how it was and didn't hold anything back. Hemingway is well known for his novels of war, big game hunting, fishing, and bullfighting. One of his most famous works, "The Old Man and the Sea," describes an old fisherman's fight to keep a giant fish he caught from being eaten by sharks. Another of his famous works, "For Whom the Bells Tolls," describes a guerrilla fighter during the Spanish Civil War who knew he was doomed to fail. Ernest used his life when he wrote; including everything he did and everything that ever happened to him. He nevertheless remained a private person while wanting his stories to be read but also wanting to be left alone. He once said, "Don't look at me. Look at my words." During World War I Ernest served as an amb ulance driver, in Italy, for the American Red Cross and very much like Frederick Henry of, "A Farewell to Arms," was shot in his knee, recuperates in a hospital and tended by a caring nurse. Like the hero, in the book, he fell in love with the nurse and was given a medal for his heroism. In addition they both enjoyed drinking large amounts of alcohol as well. In "For Whom the Bell Tolls," Hemingway summarizes his own dissatisfaction about his father when he recalls his father's suicide and a character, Jordan, says, "I'll never forget how sick it made me the first time I knew he was a †¦ coward." This goes back to support how Hemingway wasn't afraid to speak his mind and also how he used his life when he wrote. I believe that Hemingway was obsessed with death. In the book, "A Farewell to Arms," Henry met his love, Catherine Barkley, before he was shot, but Catherine and her child died while she was giving birth. Many times Hemingway did not want to expose h...