Ernest Shackleton

are standing up to their beliefs that men and women should have equal rights. They are showing that they are as strong and capable of doing what any man is able to do. This point of view in women was starting to show in the 1920s around the world. Ernest Hemingway portrays this point of view in his book The Sun Also Rises. Hemingway develops and illustrates strong women that show traits that is typical of male characters. Lady Brett Ashley and Frances Clyne are the two strong women characters…

All humans have feelings of despair and worthlessness. As we mature, we have more substantial periods of worthlessness. In Ernest Hemingway’s “ A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”, we get an inside look at the relation between old age and feeling worthless. Old age promotes feelings of worthlessness. The old waiter is not rushed in his actions at the café, as he knows the struggles of the old man, and this causes him to drink alone at a bar. Old age supports the delay in critical actions. The old…

A young boy Mako learns to be prepared and confident when he kills a shark (as he had been practicing for a long time) that had been terrorizing fishermen in his native Bora Bora for years. The shark, called Tupa, had killed Mako’s father years ago, and this and a grand reward lead Mako to kill the shark. His desire is also enforced when his dog is in danger of being killed by the the shark Tupa. In the short story “Ghost of the Lagoon”, the boy is eager, and later loyal to his dog Afa when he…

Hemingway truly shows his intent throughout A Soldier's Home through the use of repetition, dialogue and syntax. Hemingway uses these elements to portray an honest and critical tone that furthers showing the negative effects the war had on soldiers. The scenario demonstrates a cruel way to handle the newer veterans. Hemingway was a veteran himself, and his opinions of the war are scattered throughout the repetition in Krebs’s thought process. Krebs repeats the word ‘girls’ constantly throughout…

The Old Man and the Sea The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemington is an interesting tale in which Santiago, an old fisherman, has been out of luck while trying to catch fish. This story is interesting because I feel as if many of the points made in this story can relate back to the world we live in today. The Old Man and the Sea also has an interesting theme; I feel as if the theme could be respect. There could also be a deeper theme, such as loneliness. The old man, Santiago, could be…

In the book The Sun Also Rises, Cohn shows similarities of Fitzgerald and Hemingway because of incidents that have happened to them. In the same aspect, some of their personal experiences are comparable. The three men are different in the fact that Cohn has not experienced the same family issues and difficulties as Fitzgerald and Hemingway have. In terms of Cohn’s thoughts and some actions, Fitzgerald and Hemingway have both influenced him. Robert Cohn has similarities and differences to…

If I could spend any of my time with a famous person it would definitely have to be Bill Dance. I chose Bill Dance because he is one that has made my fishing life easier and taught me many things on fishing as well. Bill Dance is someone almost any other fisherman would look up to. Bill knows anything and everything there is to know about bass fishing and more. I chose Bill because being able to fish with someone as skilled as he is would be a dream come true not only because he knows how to…

left to live with the effects of being dehumanized because of all the death they saw. Within three great works about WWI, “Suicide in the Trenches” by Siegfried Sassoon, All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque and “Soldier’s Home” by Ernest Hemingway, there is an universal idea of the dehumanizing aspect of war is shown during the war, at home, and after the war. “Suicide in the Trenches” by Siegfried Sassoon, tells about how the men at war become dehumanized.…

In the book "Between the Savior and the Sea", Peter, or Simon, faces many struggles. But dealing with these difficulties, he is able to strengthen his faith and become a better leader. Faced with abandoning his job, denying Jesus, and temptation from the devil, he passed all of them. Although he was just an ordinary fisherman in the beginning of the story, he grows into a strong, devoted, and faithful apostle of Jesus. The book starts off with Simon trying to catch fish in the middle of the…

Ernest Hemingway is a well-known American writer. He is favored by many for his ability to allow readers to connect the dots for themselves when reading his stories. A hundred different people could read one of his pieces of writing and come up with a hundred different ideas on what he is writing about. In the short story, “Hills Like White Elephants” Ernest Hemingway creates a narrative piece. It is a dialog between an American man and a woman named Jig. The two of them are sitting at a…