Patrick Bergin

Most people have had to make a tough decision in their lives. Sometimes this decision is one that others disagree with. Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway is about a couple from America who goes to Spain and are embarrassed to speak out loud the issue they are having. Instead, the two talk in codes in the form of symbols. However, this causes the story to have so many symbols it is hard to find one that does not tie into the next. However, the three that are tied together the tightest

He thought he would surprise Aileana tonight and see if she was up for a road trip. We would take the Harley over to the small coastal village of Tongue, which is only an hour east of Durness. Kendrick planned for them to have dinner at the Ben Loyal Hotel. They have a wonderful restaurant called The Ben. Their website stated they had ‘magnificent views of the Kyle of Tongue, Ben Loyal, Ben Hope and the ruin of Castle Varrich’ all from the restaurant. Kendrick also wanted them to enjoy one of

St Patrick was born in Kilpatrick Scotland, in the year 387 to humble beginnings. There are so many legends surround his life that the truth is not easily found. What we do know is that he was credited with leading Ireland to Christianity in the AD 400s. This amazing story was filled with tragedy and courage and it is a story of one mans ability to hear and follow God to the ends of the earth. It begins as a boy of fourteen or so, he was captured during a Celtic raiding party and taken to Ireland

Fig 1. St. Patrick’s day is a cultural and religious event celebrated on march 17, the death date of Saint Patrick otherwise known as Patron Saint of Ireland. St. Patrick’s day was officially made a Christian feast day in the early 17th century, the day celebrates Saint Patrick and the arrival of Christianity to Ireland. St. Patrick’s day is a public holiday in most of the world such as Canada, Great Britain, United states, Australia, New Zealand, and Argentina. The wearing of green and shamrock

Authors connect to their readers through a special written language by using different elements to create a story. These elements they choose are to create a mood, a plot, and some thrill to their fiction. Ernest Hemingway is an author that prefers to write stories based on personal experience of his journalism in his literary style to bring out a sense of understanding to the reader with a character. “In Another Country” Ernest Hemingway uses the elements of setting, tone, and mood to convey a

LOTF & MDOMS What if the beast was not an animal,but reflected us within our actions and words.Sometimes something we are scared of isn't an object or even a living thing.It could be ourselfs without us not even knowing what we become.Power and imagination can sometimes lead to very bad endings.In the book Lord of the flies By William Golding this allegory talks about kids on an island discovering the true beast.Also in the t.v series The Twilight Zone: “Monsters Due On Maple Street.” By Rod Serling

Ernest Hemingway. Ernest Hemingway was born July 21, 1899, Oak Park, IL and he died July 2, 1961, Ketchum, ID. He had a wife, Mary Welsh Hemingway and they were married from 1946 until the death of Ernest in 1961. Ernest Hemingway wrote stories about how people talk back and forth to each other not how he would be doing it if he was the narrator or if he was just one person. Ernest wrote them out like one person would be talking to another and this is different from all the other stories we read

including killing people and getting away with it. This opening moment beginnings to just aline with the lifestyle that begins to unfold, until more than one person mistakes him for another person towards the end of the story. At this point it seems Patrick is unraveling about all the crimes he has committed but in reality he is just coming back to his real life. this is when I realized each moment, each killing, each scandal that he has been a part of to this point was just in his head. He is not this

Ernest Hemingway’s Hills Like White Elephants, exemplifies his literary technique of utilizing simple, direct, and often forceful prose to portray complex emotions. (Lamb, pp. 453- 454) On it’s surface, Hills Like White Elephants initially reads as a tense conversation between two tourists waiting for the express train from Barcelona, and only upon closer inspection that one can come to appreciate that Hemingway’s deceptively simple prose has built a dialogue fleshed with unspoken sentiments and

In the movie American Psycho, Patrick Bateman perpetrates numerous murders with no justified reasoning. Bateman makes a living as a young, wealthy executive who works on Wall Street. He lives life by dining at voguish restaurants, while managing appearances for his fiancée. His social group tends to consist of associates with the same occupation as his him and his wellbeing. What his associates and no one else knows about him is his hidden life as a serial killer. Bateman often boasted about his