Social Life

In the story Your Social Life: Are You a Fox or a Hedgehog? by Pamela Haag is basically compare the life style of a person to a fox and hedgehog. She explains how also is similar to the social life that we are facing today in this society. Haag tells that the fox social life is which he knows a lot of people but don’t really have that kind of confident with other. In the case of hedgehog is the opposite, he knows a lot and he can have some sincere conversations with his friends.

Nobody likes the war and it is really a difficult topic to write on it. Louisa May Alcott expressed her personal experience with a dying war soldier in such a beautiful way that it extract the sympathy and emotions of the audience and readers. In her excerpt “Hospital Sketches”, she writes about a young, brave and bachelor soldier named John, who participated in the civil war in 1863. She encountered him in an army hospital, while working there as a nurse. He was brought there with the fatal injuries. Using her writer’s experience, she presents an emotional retelling of an story, which advances an argument. She gets her readers emotionally involved in this narrative. By using diction, imagery, selection of details and her rhetorical

War has the ability to change many things about the world. While most associate the changes of war with boundaries and governments, people often forgot the influence it has over society and culture. The United States experienced a change similar to this shortly after the Civil war. Citizens were shown the brutality and devastation of war which lead to them having a grim outlook on the world. This viewpoint inspired a new generation of artists and authors who ,with their combined works, created Realism. Writers like Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, Abraham Cahan, Ambrose Bierce, and Henry James pushed the drastic shift from feelings to reality in the hopes of appealing to the more literate working class. Many stories, in order to capture reality, relied on similar techniques and themes such as: simplicity, truth, and criticism.

American History, it has done so much in time that has affected how we live life today and how we interpret things. American Literature reflects that and all it has left us with. Throughout the stories and passages we’ve read this course all of them have left a impact on how and why the writers wrote about what they did. It was all because of American History which later went on and fathered American Literature. American Literature has made society how it is today and painted a vivid picture of how American’s and people live and many of these writers had that in mind when they took these notes.

Yet another article concerning the analysis of Babylon Revisited by Joan Turner gives insight on Fitzgerald’s use of time to explain how his chance to regain his daughter is slipping away just as his wife had slipped away (Turner). With a scene where cohorts of his days of carousing appear at a time when Charlie is discussing guardianship of his daughter, Honoria, Charlie realizes how intertwined the past, present and future are (Mizner 319-320).

It is a common occurrence in today’s time to see people attempting to forget, change, or escape their past. However, one is never truly capable of completely escaping their past. Charlie Wells, the main character in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story Babylon Revisited desperately tries to escape his past and proves its impossibility to escape. During the 1920s, life was upright for Charlie, or so he thought. With a substantial amount of wealth, a wife, and a daughter, Charlie carelessly spends time and money on a lavish lifestyle without thinking of the consequences he may reap from his recklessness. While Charlie Wells lavish lifestyle manages to last an entire decade, it is halted by a crash in the stock market, a serious

​The effects of the Civil War brought about changes in the United States. The country had to answer the question: To what level of moral and ethical conduct do we want Americans to be held? Loyalties were seriously evaluated. People had to decide if they held their loyalty to the country as a whole, their state, their families, or even to humanity as a whole. They had to decide if it was right to own another person, or if the slavery system was justified as a way to keep the Southern economy going. Through all this contemplation, people wrote about their thoughts and fears, and as a result, people abandoned romanticism and became realists. Many writings of the Civil War, whether informational or literary, reflect

Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway gives different viewpoints about Hemingway’s life and marriage. Hemingway gives the character Harry, who gets an infection in his leg and is suffering from great pain, a different outlook on his life when death gets involved. When describing such themes as death, infection and the small and unimportant values of life, we see a different kind of Harry come out of the story. A bashful, unkind, and shameful Harry is brought into our imagination with such imagery, symbolism, flashbacks, and rude dialogues that Hemingway writes about in Snows of Kilimanjaro. These dialogues make the reader rethink how happy Harry really is with his marriage. Rude words being said to his wife Helen such as, “bloody fool”

The main theme in the short story “Babylon Revisited” is that you can’t repeat the past. Charlie has a lot of hope for the future, but his guilt from the past catches up with him. He tries to forget about the Paris he used to know, but memories from the past haunts him throughout the story. His past is inescapable and he has to pay great debts when the party comes to an end. “Babylon Revisited”, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald was published in 1931. The story is greatly affected by the time period it was written in, and by what was going on in Fitzgerald’s life.

“Babylon Revisited” by Fitzgerald, is an example of the twentieth century sense of loss, wastefulness, and regret because Charlie had to deal with all of those problems. The reader sees this

Ernest Hemingway was an intricate and dedicated writer who devoted a significant portion of his life to writing multiple genres of stories. Throughout his stories, the similarities in his style and technique are easily noted and identified. Two of the short stories he wrote contain themes and motifs that specifically explain the plotline. The first story, “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” sets its scene in the depths of a desolate area in Africa, where the main characters, Harry and his wife, decide to make their home. After living there for a few years, Harry ventures out and falls into a thorn bush, thus infecting his leg with gangrene. A few weeks later, he finds himself on the brink between life and death, unable to treat such a severe

World War I, along with World War II and the rise of Marxist-Leninist states in Russia and China, is one of the defining moments of the 20th century. Parts of Europe lay in devastation and the United States found itself in an increasingly prominent place on the world stage. The United States’ decision to intervene in World War I meant that American soldiers would be fighting in foreign lands under brutal conditions. All aspects of society were rapidly changing as developments in technology and changing economic conditions redefined every part of everyday life. These developments along with World War I allow for the birth of Modernism. Modernism represents the uncertainty drudgery of contemporary life and the desire to achieve a new social order capable of overcoming the failures of the past. Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald present readers with two different accounts of modern life rooted in the same context of “American life.”

Over time writing styles have varied due to the events that occur during a period of time. These changes in writing styles are the reasoning behind the different literature styles. During the of time the Civil War, specifically the Battle of Gettysburg, the ideas of writing started to shift from an imaginative perspective of life into a realistic perspective. Writers began to fray from the fantasies and fairytales made up from their imagination and began to write using factual-based information. This became a substantial adjustment for several authors and their work. Realism was a subject of literature shaped by the Civil War and composers of that time, such as Abraham Lincoln, who came to understand the absoluteness of life.

Ernest Hemingway was a 1900 writer who wrote many short stories throughout his life. One of his most well-known stories “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” was written is 1936. Others he has written include: “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber”, “A Clean, Well lighted Place”, and “Hills like White Elephants”. Hemingway writes about his life and deterioration while the theme of death often shows up. Harry and Helen are a married couple that took a journey to Africa, unfortunately Harry gets gangrene in his leg and is now on the verge of death.

People say that the Southern renaissance ended before WWII but it actually continued after WWII and was Affected by it. One example of how WWII had an effect on the Southern Renaissance is “...the coming of the second World War and its aftermath not only confirmed those changes but it created a modern-day south that in numerous respects seemed to bear little relationship to the community in which the leading writers of the Southern Renaissance had been born a half-century or so earlier” (Rubin 463). This quote shows what the second world war did to the south. The Southern Renaissance and WWII also had effects on segregation and black novelists. One example of the effect the renaissance had on segregation is “the period in which it emerged saw the south decidedly on the defensive in its efforts to stave off challenges to segregation” (Abadie 14). A good example of how the renaissance affected black novelists is “the depression in the 1930s and World War II in the 1940s are central events in American social history. Yet southern black novels during these two decades rarely do more than hint at the effects either event had on the lives of