The Alcove Angel

Crosby and Bentley also use a lot of repetition throughout this song. When readers come across the first line of the chorus the authors portray the girl “standing hard as a stone…concrete angel.” This sets a defying sound for the song as well as giving an image of a child dying inside. Martina McBride does a great job singing this song because of her powerful voice and using the repetition of three quatrains involving the words “concrete angel.” This gives a clear path for readers to better understand what is happening and what is going to happen. Yes, it would be better if the little girl was saved in the end but in this case she dies an unfortunate death.

Ernest Hemingway did not write a happy, inspiring story. His story “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” uses a famous code of behavior to dictate what his characters say and how they act. The story is depressing, dreary, and distressing but it gets the philosophical premises across. He demonstrates to not make trouble for other people, to contain one’s despair and self-pity by sheer will power, and to not judge others and view the unenlightened with pity.

Ernest Hemingway developed his own style of writing and follows it in “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”. Hemingway’s elegance in writing is such that he indirectly gives all of the information to the reader without making any judgment; thus allowing one to create an opinion about every minute detail of the story. Hemingway illustrates his foundations of writing in “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” by providing small clues that provide an indirect view of the larger meaning.

Hemingway’s “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” like all of his other stories, is based around a famous code of behavior. The philosophical premises that are demonstrated in Hemingway’s code of behavior tell people to accept that there are no guidelines or rules in life, face reality and see things exactly as they are, no matter how difficult, contain their despair and self-pity by sheer willpower, don’t make trouble for others, and instead of judging others, people should view the unenlightened with irony and pity. By analyzing “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” the reader can find different examples of this code of behavior within Hemingway’s writing.

The movie “The Blue Angel” is a Drama film and as well as a music genre, after watching this movie, I can see the different positions play complete different roles which refers to Professor Immanuel Rath and cabaret performer Lola Lola. Everything had been changed when professor Rath find some of his students were addicted to the performance of Lola and he visited the club not on purpose. Even though, he got the chance to marry Lola, there were still a huge gap that can be avoided. I think if nothing happened after he found his students often went to club and he never met Lola, Professor Rath will still be a good professor in school.

typical ideal of the angel of the house: a woman has to help and guide her husband in all of his undertakings. Ruskin furthermore states that a woman “’[…] must be […] infallibly wise […] not that she may set herself above her husband, but that she may never fail from his side” (qtd. in Mai 30). This means that her intellect and help are not designated for her own sake, but for her husband and his venture. Mina says herself before Dracula comes into her life that “[she] [has] been working very hard lately, because [she] [wants] to keep up with Jonathan’s studies [and when they] are married [she] shall be able to be useful to Jonathan” (Stoker 53). Even before Dracula’s threat becomes imminent, she works only to help Jonathan and not for

Ernest Hemingway is well-known for uniquely integrating his own experiences into his works. With each plot, he subtly weaves the elements into multiple layers of significance. His skillful use of allegory adds meaning to each story, as it allows the reader to take a step back in time and get a glimpse some of the controversies of the past. If the story were to lose its believability, the connection to the reader would be severed. Many of Hemingway’s stories allow the reader to easily grasp the superficial concepts that Hemingway is trying to convey, while also leaving the reader to expand upon it in detail through her own experiences, imagination, and research. The descriptive setting, plausible characters, and deep allegory of moral

On this picture, I see about seven white men and women who are standing before an angel. It appears that they are all dead, and now they are on heaven. They are still waiting for their interrogation before they are allowed to enter heaven. There is a big gigantic steel door behind an old angel. An old angel are asking and writing down every detail about each person, and what they have done. The first two people in line appear to be really rich. They are wearing the nice clothes, briefcase, and purse and how they are dressed. I still do not know how the second man still wears shade even though he is already dead, as if he likes to keep his fashion with him. A third man wears casual clothes which I think he is just a regular person, and I think

In Ernest Hemingway’s “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” the use of plot, symbolism, characters, and theme creates an intricate and complex story line. The elements of plot keep the readers engaged by guiding the reader though the story. Hemingway emphasizes on despair, loneliness, and isolation as major themes in his short story to help the reader understand the main idea. The themes represent the challenge of finding meaning in life. He also challenges the reader’s understanding of compassion though the character’s actions and thoughts. Throughout the story the reader can recognize Hemingway’s idea that as an induvial grows older their outlook on life changes significantly.

Ernest Hemingway was a man who was born and raised in the suburbs of Chicago. Growing up, he was always encouraged to pursue the arts in any way he could. Being so close to nature and experiencing World War I, World War II, and the Spanish Civil war, Hemingway’s style showed times of post-war and poverty for the common man. Some of his best works are because of the times he has spent in war. Stories such as the Old Man and the Sea, “The Killers”, “The Undefeated”, and “The Big Two-Hearted River” were all influenced by war and the times Hemingway spent fighting for the cause. All of Hemingway’s most famous works follow a special code, grace under pressure. These codes tell how one must accept life for how it is. That we are not always able to change it so the best we can do is take it as life hands it to us. In addition, that one should stick to their own path in life and not make trouble for others. Hemingway’s code show how one should live their life in a way that is solely their life, which one should never try to inflict their ways or values onto others.

Throughout the 20th century there were many influential pieces of literature that would not only tell a story or teach a lesson, but also let the reader into the author’s world. Allowing the reader to view both the positives and negatives in an author. Ernest Hemingway was one of these influential authors. Suffering through most of his life due to a disturbingly scarring childhood, he expresses his intense mental and emotional insecurities through subtle metaphors that bluntly show problems with commitment to women and proving his masculinity to others.

When profound emotions and heartfelt experiences lay beneath a narrative subtext, a simple short story can become an elaborate puzzle where one continues to discover new pieces. Ernest Hemingway’s, “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” is a fascinating short story that has a powerful theme of ‘nothingness’ and ‘loneliness’ enveloped beneath its dialogue. This short story’s re-readability pulls us, the reader, back into its’ text just to discover that a specific character’s dialogue could elude to yet another much darker theme. Hemingway’s writing is minimalistic, consisting of numerous underlying subtext the reader needs to interpret for themselves; however, the writing style contrived throughout the short story grasps the readers every thought

The timeless story, “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” by Ernest Hemingway, has a descriptive setting and plausible characters. In this story, the reader can also ground herself and feel that she is truly a part of what is occurring. If the story were to lose its believability, its connection with the reader would be severed. This story allows the reader to grasp the main concepts that Hemingway is trying to convey, while also leaving her to expand upon it in great detail through her own experiences, imagination, and research.

Ernest Hemingway is a noble prize winner that is noticed as one of the great American twentieth century writers, and is known for works like “The Sun Also Rises” and “For Whom the Bell Tolls”. When first reading Ernest Hemingway’s short story “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” it seemed to be a plain, emotionless, and almost not finished short story. Although, as the reader looks deeper into the short story, they realize it’s not just about a clean, quiet, well lighted café that has two employees that have trouble with customer coming late at night to drink, but that Hemingway wants the reader to focus on the story’s meaning. It’s a plotless story that through the short story of the characters going back and forth, the author builds up its

“ A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” by Ernest Hemingway is a simplistic short story in which he narrates a scene in a Cafe, where the main characters are two waiters and an old man. In the story, Hemingway hardly created a background for his characters, but this was part of his minimalist writing style. He wanted to create a story that was straightforward to the reader, and in which the reader could easily understand his attitude. His purpose for writing the story was to expose his feelings on society, politics, and the individual at the time. These feelings could be characterized by three main words: desperation, disillusionment, and loneliness. Through all of the characters in his story, the reader was able to obtain one of these feelings.