Ernest Shonekan

the literature and arts of the olden times, which occurred in the 20th century, with a shift towards an avant-garde style and movements (Dictionary.com). One famous literary work to come out of this thought change was The Big Two-Hearted River by Ernest Hemmingway. Hemmingway belonged to the pioneer writing members of the modernist genre known as the Lost Generation. This cohort believed in literature that focused internally

opposing books for reference, ‘death in the afternoon’ by Ernest Hemingway and ‘on bullfighting’ by A. L Kennedy. Bullfighting is a popular sport in Spain and some Latin countries in the Americas. It involves teasing a bull into confronting a man, and the man ‘escaping death’ and finally killing the bull (Kennedy, 2001). There have been different opinions about the sport over the years. These opinions are captured by A. L Kennedy and Ernest Hemingway in their respective books. One of the main appeals

Most people are used to symbols being something that is simple for them to notice and point out while reading literature. But symbols can actually be very tricky to discover, especially when the author makes them hard to find. But even when an author makes them difficult to spot, he still wants us to find them because they add a deeper meaning to the story. They help us piece together what the story is actually meant to be about and not just what it appears to be about. But even though symbols are

authors of these novels were once soldiers, living in fear and enduring sleepless nights. These authors channel their experiences and emotions into their work, often creating masterpieces of literature. A Farewell to Arms is one such novel. Its author, Ernest Hemingway, was in the Italian ambulance corps in World War I, much like the protagonist of A Farewell to Arms, Frederic Henry. The themes in A Farewell to Arms reflect his mentality and the typical soldier’s disillusionment in the institutions and

In the face of death, it is human nature which brings people to realize the truth about themselves. In Ernest Hemingway’s short story, “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” the audience can see the effects that death brings upon one of the characters, Harry. Harry and Helen are the two main characters within the story, adventuring on a safari trip that Harry wanted to take. Disaster strikes the couple as their truck’s oil bearing burns out and leaves them stranded while, simultaneously, gangrene develops in

Vulnerability and Relationships In the novel, The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway, communication is an important aspect of basic human relationships that lacks between the characters. The characters are all closed off emotionally for various reasons and it is rare for them to have a meaningful conversation or express their thoughts. Jake Barnes is an especially closed off character due to an injury he must live with from the war. Hemingway makes it difficult to decipher the underlying thoughts

The novel “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet,” is a unique story. In the story, we learn about Henry on two fronts of his life, the younger, twelve year old Henry during 1942, as well as forty year old Henry in 1986. The story is about a love that surpasses time and distance. We follow Henry and his life as young Chinese-American boy attending a mainly white school on a scholarship. As a young boy, Henry feels out of place since he barely speaks with his own parents, due to the fact that his

It’s “the worst ocean on the globe.” (82) It can be truly terrifying. Drake’s Passage is an 800 kilometer wide gap located between the tip of South America (Cape Horn) and the islands at the end of the Antarctic Peninsula. It is the shortest crossing between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Once key aspect about Drake’s Passage is that “There is no significant land anywhere around the world at the latitudes of Drake Passage.” This means that there is nothing to stop or slow down the movement of

and heartbreak, we’re shaped and affected in our thoughts and in the words that we put on paper. Ernest Hemingway encountered some of these experiences throughout his life, and those experiences affected the stories that he wrote, specifically The Sun Also Rises. Hemingway drew from his life experiences and whether or not those experiences helped him write the personalities of his characters. Ernest Hemingway had relationship struggles that affected how he wrote the characters in The Sun Also Rises

A Farewell to Arms is a classic novel read by thousands worldwide. The novel is filled with symbols that represent what it felt like to live in World War I. The author Ernest Hemingway does a great job at really sucking you into the emotions of the characters using alcohol, weather, and romance. Alcohol, which is still used for many as an unhealthy coping mechanism is a large part of this novel. It also factors in when you think about the fact that the entertainment source for the people enlisted