Ernest Hemingway

Louis Zamperini could not talk about it. It terrified him at night and he was always angry because of it. Everyone thought that it was so good and noble. It was World War II, the “good” war. Louie Zamperini’s PTSD was an example of how misunderstood veterans were by society after World War II. However, over time, society has learned to understand soldiers’ experiences. In World War II, the success of the American military created a positive attitude towards soldiers that did not account for…

How would you feel if you were twenty years old and have not been able to find a better job than the local fast food joint in your small town. There is not much business but it is the only place that was hiring. you cannot even leave to get a better job because you have yet to pass the driving test that you have taken millions of times. Your neighbor hates your guts and makes it known, your only friend is mentally challenged, and your boss is a lying cheapskate. Worst of all, you live in a…

“Hills like White Elephants” by Ernst Hemingway by very confusing. I had no idea what it was about. Annotating it didn’t help either. I had to ask a friend what the man and woman were talking about. Once she told me that the man was trying to get woman to have an abortion, I had to reread the story and having the idea of abortion in my head. Without my friend there, I would have been so confused I wouldn’t know what to do. I also had to go back and annotate it differently. In class, we learned…

I couldn’t believe that I was stuck in boring old Pulaski, Virginia. What a perfect place to run out of gas on the annual trip from West Virginia to Florida. I had assumed that I would just lay out at the local all night pub. But as soon I entered the establishment, an old man greeted me at the door and he blocked my entrance. He said he wanted a chance to tell an outsider about the story of his great grandfather, Jack Jackson. I said “Hold on”, walked to the nearest booth and sat down, and…

Throughout the short story Sheila Mant, the boy must decide between the bass and Sheila. First off the boy has a great passion for fishing. He shows this in many ways. He is committed to fishing because he says in his free time he practices different casts. In the text it states, “I was back in our driveway practicing casts, and when I wasn’t practicing casts, I was tying the line… when I was not doing any of those things, I was fishing the river for bass” (Wetherell 2). Another way to prove…

15 Shocking Confessions From Hotel Employees When you think of a hotel what kind of images come to mind? Do you think about vast beds draped in cool white linen? Maybe you long for the quietness of a hotel room; a place where you can just relax and call room service when you start to feel peckish? Perhaps you are just an exhausted mom who wouldn’t mind spending a little time in a place you didn’t have to constantly clean up. The point is that hotels are meant to appealing. They are designed to…

“Soldier's Home”, and the poem “The Hollow Men”, Hemingway and Eliot’s use of a gloomy tone conveys how when soldiers return from war, they often feel detached from the people around them. After Krebs gets home from battle, he will occasionally run into another person who fought also. In this situation Krebs gets back the feeling of being “sickeningly frightened all the time” and falls into the pose of a soldier. Using such dark and gloomy words, Hemingway demonstrates how after witnessing the…

The chase begins. The poachers begin to gain on the unaware pod of blackfish. The poachers are ready for their foes; their faces vacuums of emotion, only cold and calculating. The poachers creep closer, a chase worthy of a proper soundtrack. Blackfish are swimming frantically with fear in their eyes as the predators ready their nets. They think of what is to come, preparing their minds for the death and destruction that they will cause for the sin of greed. The blackfish, despite their panicked…

A Long Walk To Water One of the very important themes in the book A Long Walk To Water is perseverance.The first example of perseverance is when Salva was crossing the Akobo Desert. Even though he had stubbed his toe and his whole toenail came off he found the perseverance in him to keep in going with the help of his uncle.The second example to prove that Perseverance is this book's theme is when salva had survived the Gilo River. The Gilo River was a river that at the time had dangerously…

Comparison Essay Challenging situations are perfect opportunities to learn about someone's true character. In the stories, “Survival” by John Hersey, and Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, both main characters, Tom Sawyer and John F. Kennedy encounter difficult and trying situations. John F. Kennedy was the heroic character and Tom Sawyer showed us the ups and downs of our adventurous side. “Survival”, by John Hersey, was a difficult book to get through because it tells the true story about events…