Old Man and the Sea A Book of Hope and Disappointment Many critics stand on either side of the ongoing debate of whether The Old Man and the Sea is a book of hope or a book of disappointment Ernest Hemingway uses the iceberg theory which really means that he wants his readers to be active and fill in their own inferences Depending on how the reader reads between the lines it can be viewed with many times of disappointment but also many times of hope The situations that happen to Santiago the ma
The novel Twenty thousand leagues under the sea describes the battles in the sea that many people experienced while operating vessels in the sea These people had always reported cases of either meeting a naval wreck submerged a giant whale ramming them or going into an island floating in the sea Many people had therefore met face to face with death from this unknown creature Different people had viewed this creature in different forms and there was a need for its identification to reduce the nu
Santiago against the World For as long as man has roamed the earth he has tried to conquer nature Whether it is massive dams withholding entire lakes or tall steel skyscrapers defying the laws of gravity man continues to challenge this great force Unfortunately through the long and tiresome process of trial and error history shows that man will ultimately find himself at the mercy of nature A perfect example of this is Santiago the protagonist from Ernest Hemingways The Old Man and the Sea The
Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park Illinois on July 21 of 1899 A lot of the writings he has done were created because of the wars that he has seen There are many books that he has written which are well known Some examples of those books are A farewell to arms the old man and the sea to have and have not and men without women Hills like white elephants was in his first collection called Men without women This collection appeared in 1927 Ernest Hemingway received a Nobel Prize for literature
The Hills Like White Elephants is a short story of dialogue between a couple By Ernest Hemingway which uses the taboo topic of abortion to show that fear may be helpful in circumstance of danger but it can also hinder our ability to communicate hurting those we hold closest I believe beyond the reason of a doubt that this piece of literature is a short story because of its length and the key elements of it construction One thing that makes this piece a short story is its length Hills Like White