Essay
The short stories “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” and “The Short Happy Life of Francis Mocomber” were both written by world renowned author Ernest Hemingway. The two stories are written completely unrelated to each other; however, both stories have vast similarities in the time and place in which they take place. Hemingway is a writer that is very methodical in his word choices. When reading these two stories a second time the reader finds considerable differences in the writing style the author uses in each story. To demonstrate, three sentences from each story will be compared and contrasted to show the differences in word usage, word connotation, and to find which story is written better. The initial pair
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The word “plummeted” as defined in the American Heritage Dictionary “is to fall straight down; plunge”.
The two words are close in meaning; however, “plummeted” is a better word for the sheer reason that the reader can directly visualize the vultures dive toward earth. When the word “plummeted” is heard a person thinks of plunging to death or fall at in incredible rate. “Plummeted” is much more dramatic and defining then the word “planed.” The word “Planned” could have various images connected with it. “Planed” leaves the reader too many options when visualizing the vultures decent to the ground. For example the reader might visualize the vulture gliding down to the ground or zigzagging to the ground. The word ‘Plummeted” is a better defined and more dramatic word. Making the sentence, “On the far bank of the stream Macomber could see, above the trees, vultures circling and plummeting down,” the better sentence of the two.
The next two sentences, “’You Bitch,’ he said,” from the “Snows of Kilimanjaro” and “’Why not let up on the bitchery just a little, Margot,’ Macomber said, cutting the eland steak and putting some mashed potato, gravy and carrot on the down-turned fork that tined through the piece of meat,” again have similarities. For example, in each sentence the husband is calling his wife a bitch of sorts; however, it is the use of this word that makes these sentences
He came in without a word. I was stropping my best razor. And when I recognized him, I started to
Before the drop she always gave her lean into the boat and keep paddling speech. It usually gets people more scared than ready for the drop. Slowly, she and her crew of new boaters arrived at the top of dead man’s drop. As they were coming upon the drop, she directed the boaters to start paddling continually until her call. In order to completely avoid running into rocks and
What is the point of any piece of great literature? Or rather, what is great literature? Some would say that accomplished literature is a way of exceptionally telling a story. However, what is the point of storytelling? In many cases, stories are told for entertainment. However, most stories have a moral or theme conveying an important message about life or how to live it. This is the point of great literature, to convey this message beautifully. Some pieces of great literature are The Story-Teller, by Saki, Geraldine Moore the Poet, by Toni Cade Bambara, and Enemy Territory, by William Melvin Kelley. To understand the themes of great literature, you must also understand how to analyze it. The content
Antagonist: Captain Torres Flat and a little stereotypical: The captain does not show his thoughts or feelings. he is a standard, cruel, brutal army officer bad guy, killing the good revolutionaries. However, he shows a little change is telling the barber that “Killing isn’t easy, is it? You can take my word for that.”
According to Dictionary.com accessed on October 1,2017, skydiving is the sport of jumping from an airplane at moderate or high altitude and free falling using one's body to control direction or movements before opening one's parachute.
There was a girl named Kandy, she was 15 years old. Her life was extremely boring, all she ever did was go to school, go on her computer, eat and sleep. She spent all summer on her computer. She was really good with HTML and spent her free time making web sites. Kandy didn't have many friends and rarely talked to guys because she was shy and unconfident about her looks. That's why she went into chat rooms. She made a web site with pictures of herself on it and told people in chat rooms to go there. A lot of people would tell her how pretty she was and some would say she was ugly. That made her feel awful. When anyone would say anything nice to her, she wouldn't believe them and think that they were just making fun of her. She only had
Committed in recreational and competitive purposes, skydiving contains three phases of activity: the free fall, the slide with open parachute, and the landing. In sky diving of competition players are evaluated by looking to their style in free fall and their accuracy in landing near a entitled point. During the slide, divers can control the accuracy of their landing by manipulating the open parachute as a type of sail; can travel up to 16 km per hour during a fall by the skilled parachutists with good apparatus. Skydivers are required to open their parachutes at about 2,200 ft. (670 m), this is for reasons of safety. Basically sky diving is an adventure sport where in the diver jumps from an aircraft from at least an altitude 1500 m. The players experience a free fall and they even do different tricks in the air before they release their parachutes and are safely on the ground. Sky diving requires average levels of fitness. It is the closest experience humans can have to
"Name is Brian O'Connor, wealthy businessman, a family of five, died because of a bullet wound through the heart," FBI agent, Wisteria Clive, says while writing it onto her notepad. "Please, tell me, did your son have any enemies? In business, family, anything?"
" No," replied Carol with a sigh, "give him a chance to get used to
"We should probably head into the jungle to look so then at least we won't be as vulnerable as we are out here in the open "commented Carlos "Alright then," agreed Shane "let's head out first thing in the morning, but until then we should try and get some sleep" As the four children wandered into the small cave Carlos had created, the sun seemed to dissolve over the horizon and disappeared for the night.
It was a dark, stormy night the Herrera family was getting ready to go to bed. Lilly and Jose were still awake while their parents were fast asleep. They couldn’t fall asleep due to the cracking of the storm outside of their home.
In October, the children must walk to school in the rain and mud and are splashed by the vindictive driver of the white school's bus. (The black school cannot afford a bus because the county does not give it enough money.) One day, after being forced off the road into a muddy ditch, Stacey leads his siblings in digging a trench across the road at lunchtime to make it look like the road has washed out. After school, they watch from the forest as the bus drives into the ditch, breaking its axle, flooding its engine, and leaving the white students without a bus for two weeks.
My feet, so reluctant to move moments ago, now wish to race us towards his table, and I have to put all my effort into slowing them down as to not appear too eager. Upon his table is an array of papers and books, and of course, a bottle of whiskey parked next to an empty tumbler. He slides along the sofa, allowing room for me to sit beside him. “Are you sure?” I ask. “You seem pretty busy.”
He has no mother,he has no skate I thought to myself. I drove down to the orphanage as soon as possible asking myself over and over why did he lie to me. So I went to the orphanage and I saw it burning down. I started to drive faster and faster and I saw Jerry and I was relief. I got out of the car and I see the curtains burning I hear little kids screaming I see the the building burn down to the floor.
Your story goes here: It was one of the worst thunderstorms of the year as I was watching a movie at my uncle's house. The heavy rain splattering the window beside me and the distant thunder gave a calming ambience to the dull background. It was around 9:30 pm that I decided to head to bed. I gently opened the door and tiptoed across the hall, quiet to not wake up my sleeping uncle, who wouldn't exactly be calm about being woke up. My uncle was slightly groggy fellow, he wasn't exactly what you’d call a exciting person. He has black shaggy hair compared to my slick blond hair, he wears usually loose clothing so his belly usually bulges out too. As I crawled into my bed, I still heard the rainy dripping outside as my sight faded to black. I woke to a banging sound, I thought it was something that fell from downstairs, something not uncommon in the the old house. I decided to climb out of bed and look out the window. I undid the curtains and tried to see through the murky glass. I cleared the fog from the window and looked outside. The field behind our house was all I saw. I looked at the cellar under my window and saw nothing too. “Yep something fell,” I remember murmuring. I climbed back into bed and dozed away again. I woke again to another bang, I looked to my left to see the time and saw I had only slept 30 minutes. I was now becoming confused, why would something fall twice in the night, thunder can't shake a house. Can it?