In Our Time Study Guides, Literature Essays

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  • In Our Time

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    In Our Time is a collection of short stories by Modernist author Ernest Hemingway. The stories are linked thematically by concepts of conclusion, loss of innocence and nobility, and violence between men. It also dwells on semi-autobiographical accounts of Hemingway's childhood and war experience. Also present is Hemingway's lifelong passion, bullfighting. The collection of short stories functions as an effective primer on Hemingway's spare literary style and on the themes that would dominate his later work.

  • Trauma in In Our Time

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    Leslie Marmon Silkhos Ceremony and Ernest Hemingways In Our Time give us two male characters struggling to socially reintegrate after a comparable traumatic events Each of these characters had a hand in a World War and is now rediscovering the rules and constraints governing mainstream society These veterans have seen particularly disturbing scenes and are now coming back to a world that they no longer understand In understanding the differences in the methods that these two use to reintegrate

  • "Lost Generation" in The Sun Also Rises

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    Dont you know youre not wanted I know when Im not wanted Why dont you know when youre not wanted Mike Campbell say to Robert Cohn In Hemingways book The Sun Also Rises They are in a argument sitting at the table at Montoyas hotel While Mike is insulting Robert in front of the whole group Bill decides to take Robert out to calm him down After Robert leaves Mike continues to insult him even without him being there Robert Cohn can be seen as the most Lost of The lost generation because he has low

  • Civil Disobedience Analysis

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    Thoreau believes that society needs to forgo all of the cumbersome details of life and live in a much simpler life He believes we humans must be independent and self reliant and not adhere to public opinion and tradition and we also must attempt to understand or at least acknowledge the beauty and simplicity of nature Thoreaus beliefs have a greater relevance in the modern day than even in his own time yet in modern day society most of the public scoffs at his suggestions Thoreau asserts that h

  • Commentary on The Battler

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    The world contains many different groups of people obviously These groups divide the world into class race gender age and so on But even with all these different physical descriptions of people people can form into three main groups This concept did not come clear until I read Ernest Hemingways The Battler in his collection of short stories In Our Time In this story Hemingway uses three main characters to explain who exactly those three main groups of people are According to Hemingway people oc

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