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    The story has different elements that make it a story, that make it whole. Setting is one of those elements. The book defines setting as “the context in which the action of the story occurs” (131). After reading “Soldier’s Home” by Ernest Hemmingway, setting played a very important part to this story. From researching about setting in a story, I have found many wonderful sources that help me prove my point. For example, William Tapply explains setting in his article, “setting comprises all the

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    In Ernest Hemmingway's short story "Hills Like White Elephants", an unknown narrator orchestrates the dialogue between a man (referred to as "the American") and a woman named Jig. Throughout the course of the story, Jig and the American discuss whether or not to have a life-changing "operation". Although neither the characters or the narrator indicates a result of their discussion, it is widely accepted among literary critics that the characters are talking about whether or not Jig should have an

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    freezing waters, but instead the unseen structure twice its size that lurked beneath the surface. Ernest Hemingway does the same thing to his readers that the iceberg did to the titanic. In Hemingway’s writing it is undeniably what lies beneath the surface, what remains unsaid, that truly shakes the reader to their core. Like other American writers, such as Mark Twain and Stephen Crane, Ernest Hemmingway worked as a journalist before beginning his career in literature. As a rule, journalists are

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    Ernest Hemmingway has a distinctive style of writing. More often than not Hemmingway's writing is accompanied by a great deal of comment and controversy. However, no matter the topic, Hemmingway's writing is simple, direct and unadorned. This controversial yet direct writing style is predominant in Hemmingway's story, "Soldiers Home". The main point of focus in a "Soldiers Home" is the way that Hemmingway uses the women of the story and Krebs interaction with them to show Krebs' internal struggle

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    The word "iceberg" is most likely a Dutch term "ijsberg," which translates to ice mountain; only one-eighth of the mass can be seen above the surface of the water ("Iceberg Facts"). Iceberg also refers to a theory/style of writing which Ernest Hemingway was famous for. “Now I Lay Me” is a short story written about a religious man during war who refuses to fall asleep for fear of death and the dark. At least that is the surface version of the story. However, like the iceberg, the seven-eighths

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    Annie Prolux is an author of eight books. She was born in Norwich, Connecticut on August 22, 1935. She is the oldest of fives sisters. She graduated high school in Portland, Maine and attended Colby College. She then attended the University of Vermont and received her bachelor’s degree in History. In 1973 she attended Sir George Williams University of Montreal, where she graduated with a master’s degree in History. In 1983 and 1987 Proulx landed two stories in The Best American Short Stories. She

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    Ernest Hemmingway’s A Farewell to Arms: Hemmingway’s life during the war and thestory’s structure helped him create a simple story but with so much detail. The general idea ofthe book is a boy meets a girl, boy gets the girl, and girl leaves boy. That simple structure wasused for the whole story, which is 41 chapters. I believe that Hemingway managed to write thisstory by his way of life when he was younger.I have heard of Hemingway and the way he livedhis life and I would like to find out if his

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    The Sun Also Rises is a novel written by Ernest Hemmingway that follows Jake Barnes, Brett Ashley, and their group of friends as they travel from France to Spain in order to be view the thrilling bull-fights of the Festival of San Fermin in the 1920s. The group, a part of the “Lost Generation,” is disillusioned by the horrendous effects of war in this post-World War I era. People have lost many pre-war values, including moral standards, optimism, and faith in religion. Religion is constantly referenced

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    Ernest Hemingway is best known for his stories on truth and honesty. He believes that an author “Should Always Tell the read the Truth.” He writes a story so that the audience can interrupt the story in many ways. He will often tell his stories in a personal tone. He also wants the story to have a deeper meaning that what comes to the eye,.3 In this literary analysis assignment, I choose to analyze the short story of the Hills of white elephants, by Ernest Hemingway. Ernest Hemingway was a 20th-century

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    would likely be expected. However, those same situations could ultimately lead to a sense of fulfilment or enlightenment. In the novels All Quiet On The Western Front by Erich Remarque, The Wars by Timothy Findley, and A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemmingway, the varying possibilities of the effects of war on an individual are clearly displayed. In All Quiet On The Western Front, Paul Baumer finds the war has changed not only the way he views

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