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- with particular emphasis placed upon people of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Am...

powerful setting. In the title itself we imagine hills and we envision hills that look like white elephants. This could clearly...

case is the baby that Jig carries (Bernardo). Hemingway composed this story masterfully through his choice of language. ...

those standards of conduct which generations before World War I appeared to accept as adequate and perfectly satisfactory" (Meyers...

strolled down town, read and went to bed. He was still a hero to his two young sisters" (Hemingway 112). He was a hero because he ...

and resume business as usual. This was the America that greeted an injured young soldier named Ernest Hemingway. The place he lo...

Uncle Sam finally entered the First World War in 1917, Hemingway tried to enlist, but was constantly rejected because of his poor ...

old and thus were, as children, clearly affected by many residual realities concerning racism as it was connected with the era of ...

so closely related is dangerous for the reader. Its tempting to think that this is nothing more than Hemingway retelling events in...

Fitzgerald was seeking in his style and the forms that were emerging in relationship to the 20s. Berman notes how many of his stor...

is also presented in a manner that makes the reader see what a sad and lonely life she has likely led. This is generally inferred ...

women: "During the early 20th century the term new woman came to be used in the popular press. More young women than ever were goi...

an unnamed American man and his girlfriend, Jig. Theyre sitting at a train station in the valley of the river Ebro; its barren and...

decide to go out on his own and catch a fish so that he was not unlucky any longer. He is also a very old man. In these respects o...

errors, and so kind to people that I always thought of him as a sort of saint" (Hemingway 88). This is clearly a very high claim t...

It would seem that the fact the Ghost appears and Hamlet is able to speak to it is proof enough of the reality of the vision. In t...

were old With which she followed my poor fathers body Like Niobe, all tears;-why she, even she,- O God! a beast that wants discour...

conversation between the bartenders as they speak of how he had tried to commit suicide. The older bartender indicates that it mus...

three oclock. What kind of hour is that to go to bed?" (Hemingway). His colleague says "He stays up because he likes it" (Hemingwa...

It was Fitzgerald who is credited with coining the phrase Jazz Age to describe the 1920s. During this time, the spectre of war an...

doesnt let this bother her in the least (Hurston, 1999). Interestingly, despite Janies assertiveness and her obvious independen...

the conditions of life. If he were a young boy with no responsibilities he would have been focused on his environment in a very im...

suffered a severe leg wound and was twice decorated by the Italian government. His affair with an American nurse, Agnes von Kurows...

write about" (Anonymous Brainstorm Page IV-A, 2002; iv-a.htm). Also as mentioned, his stories were not always, if ever, truly h...

man (A Farewell to Arms Symbolism, 2002). There are also positive associations with rain in this novel (A Farewell to Arms Symb...

each other often about literary topics as well as the war (Tender is the Night). It was during this time in France that Fitzger...

judgements about his surroundings came as naturally as breathing, yet he was raised with a cultural model that stressed that child...

boy who would always follow him. We note that Manolin has been required to move to another boat by his father, yet he still remain...

he tells her that he never loved her when she asks: Dont you love me?" to which he replies "No...I dont think so. I never have" (H...

by Gertrude Stein was a term she gave to a generation of men and women whose experiences in World War I undermined their belief in...