Patrick Bergin

American Psycho was adapted from the novel by Bret Easton Ellis in 2000. The film is narrated by its main character, the American psycho, Patrick Bateman. This man is a cunning Wall-Street socialite by day, murderous psychopath by night. The audience is told from the beginning of the film that Bateman is slowly losing control of his restraint, “Something horrible is happening inside of me and I don’t know why. My nightly bloodlust has over-flown into my days. I feel lethal, on the verge of frenzy

Writers use several literary devices to when creating their stories, writers like Ernest Hemingway incorporates symbolism, theme, and imagery. Hemingway focuses only on the surface of the components without clearly exposing the theme. Most of his short stories are similar to one another. Two of the short stories written in the 1920’s are very different but had a lot of similarities that made them relate to each other. The short story “Hills like White Elephants” and “Cat In The Rain” are the two

Patrick Francis Moran was born on the 16th of September 1830 in Leighinbridge, Carlow, Ireland and passed away on the 16 of august 1911 in Manly, NSW; he was the third Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sydney and was the first cardinal of Australia. Moran studied for priesthood that was first at the minor seminary and then at the major seminary, he was considered so academically smart that he gained his doctorate by acclamation. His studies were only slightly disturbed by the roman revolution of 1848-1849

Ernest Hemingway is an extremely talented author whose classic novella was a very inspirational piece. The Old Man and the Sea, was a short novel that involved Santiago, an old fisherman who was unable to fish for eighty-four days, going on a fishing trip to see if his luck would change around. He results in catching an eighteen foot Marlin, but faces many obstacles when attempting to take him home. The book was filled with vivid details and superb language, motivational themes, and a dynamic main

Sometimes there are no words. Everyday people discuss a multitude of issues but often the real issue that requires addressing is left as the so called “elephant in the room.” Hemingway expresses through this evasive writing how we are often not strong enough to stand up for what we want and think is right and fall to the desires of others. As the author’s note points out in “Hills Like White Elephants,” this conversation takes place in a traditionally religious Catholic region. The unspoken issue

The Loch Ness Monster, affectionately known as ‘Nessie’, is known globally as the cryptozoological lake monster that lives in Loch Ness. This freshwater lake, which is located in the Scottish Highlands, is approximately 37 kilometres long, roughly 226 metres deep, and is supposedly home to the large lake monster named Nessie. (Wikipedia.com/LochNess) This urban legend known as the Loch Ness Monster has apparently been sighted several times over many hundreds of years. Almost all descriptions of

Handicap is the step to success. When you overcome it, you are getting closer from the success. Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and The Sea describes the life of a old man whom had gone eighty-four days without taking a fish. One of the important themes of this book is hard work, hope and never gives up makes miracle happen. In order to develop this theme, Hemingway uses the literary and rhetorical devices of imagery and repetition. Hemingway introduces the theme through the usage of imagery. As

Ernest Hemingway uses symbolism in a lot of different ways in this book, but one of the most distinguishable ways he uses symbolism is to try and represent women and men through different characters in the book. Early in the book when the old man is on the boat he starts to think about the ocean. He brings up the fact that he thinks about the ocean as la mar, which is the feminine form of the ocean in Spanish. On page 30 he says “and if she did wild or wicked things it was because she could not help

One might think that destruction is like defeat, but it is not. Think of it like someone rebuilding a house after it was destroyed by a storm; the house might have fallen apart, but it is not gone forever, it is eventually going to return better than ever. The parable, The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway shares similar characteristics with the boxing drama Rocky directed by John G. Avildsen. The Old Man and the Sea is set in a fishing village near Havana, Cuba during the 1940s, and Santiago

Ernest Hemingway was an American novelist who was credited with having a major impact on the fictional writings of the 20th century. His writings have influenced many people through his life experiences seen throughout many of his stories. In “Hills like White Elephants” Hemmingway uses multiple literary devices throughout the story. Three of these devices are imagery, symbolism, and a metaphor. Hemmingway uses imagery in his story when he calls his girlfriend a jig. A jig is a device use to trick