...Our society has become increasingly more keen on the thought of warfare. More and more people especially in USA have a very calm and naive approach on the subject. This has a negative effect on the help for the injured soldiers, both physically and mentally. The short story Big two-hearted river is a sample of how soldiers have to repair and find inner peace by themself. Character: Nick is a very strong minded man, he keeps on going until he has achieved his goal. He must be a physically strong man, because of the strength needed to carry the load of his backpack. He is in a situation, where he for some reason need to punish himself and push his body to the limit. We can see this in his own quotation: “ “I´ve got a right to eat this kind of stuff, if I´m willing to carry it” Nick said” The narrater finishes it by saing: “ He did not speak again.” (Page 5, line 1 and 2) He shows his mental strength and weakness here. His strength because he is able to carry his own food all day and wait until he arives to eat it, eventhough it might be tempting. He is weak because he doesn´t just eat something from the forest or river. The setting: The area where Nick is hicking have a lot of symbolic places wich references to the battlefield in the 1st. World war. It might look like he is out on a fishing trip, but really he´s out to repair his mind after the war, because it seems like he keeps seeing places from the war, like: “The foundations of the Mansion House hotel stuck...
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...Hemingway and Identity Ernest Hemingway had an expanse of ideas contributing throughout his two short stories, “Big Two-Hearted River: Parts I and II”. The abundant themes and motifs applied into the two stories differ due to their broad nature, but the theme of identity and renewal of the protagonist, Nick, stands absolute. In order to be given a sense of renewal, what must be done first? Essentially to expand our understanding, we can begin by looking at the root word of “renewal”, which is “new”, and is defined by Merriam Webster as: “not old : recently born, built, or created”. Delving further into Hemingway’s short stories, it can be concluded that the protagonist’s fate was transpired to be alike the initial setting given to him- as...
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...In Big Two-Hearted River, the physical ruin is evident: "There was no town, nothing but the rails and the burned-over country," it begins. Even the grasshoppers were “a sooty black.” But the central devastation, far less overtly presented, had occurred within the protagonist’s own mind. Nick is first said to be happy when “he felt he had left everything behind, the need for thinking, the need to write, other needs.” The only needs he had were basic ones like hunger, and with a plateful of beans and spaghetti he was again happy. At the end of Part I, when “his mind was starting to work,” Nick’s goal was to “choke it,” and he pours out the coffee that had livened his mind. Nick’s will to stop thinking, to stop remembering, to constrain his entire being to the...
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...War Leaves Unforgettable Scars War is a topic that most people prefer not to talk about. The word itself has a negative vibe and can at times bring back memories that some try very hard to forget. Memories that can consume someones life to a point of insanity. In many cases these memories cause incurable pains. War scenes are said to be very graphic and can scar someone forever. Seeing people you know and love die is not an easy thing, especially coming back home after all the madness. In the short story “Big Two-Hearted River,” author Ernest Hemingway writes about Nick Adam’s return home after war. Nick’s behavior is very different from before and so is the town that he once lived in. The town that he knew so well, and all of a sudden was astonished to see how drastically it had changed; it was no longer home to him....
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...War Leaves Unforgettable Scars War is a topic that most people prefer not to talk about. The word itself has a negative vibe and can at times bring back memories that some try very hard to forget. Memories that can consume someone’s life to a point of insanity. In many cases, these memories cause incurable pains. War scenes are said to be very graphic and can scar someone forever. Seeing people you know and love die is not an easy thing, especially coming back home after all the madness and noticing that what you once left behind is no longer the same as it once was. In the short story “Big Two-Hearted River,” author Ernest Hemingway writes about Nick Adam’s return home after the war. Nick’s behavior is very different from before and so is...
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...Nick Adams’ Journey to Recovery In the story “Big Two-Hearted River” by Ernest Hemingway, Nick Adams is a young man recovering from traumatic experiences he suffered during his past wartime experiences. Nick seems to be an outdoorsman and throughout the story, his mental recovery progresses and he begins to leave behind some tragic experiences from his past by escaping civilization and completely immersing himself in what he knows- nature. Nick’s escape from civilization into nature is not only a physical journey but a journey of healing and self renewal from his traumatic experiences. His journey allows him to first retreat into physical activity in order to clear his mind, begin to process and accept his traumas, and eventually return to himself and civilization. At the beginning of Nick’s excursion, the narrator describes, in detail, Nick’s actions as he goes about his trip. In doing so, the narrator focuses on Nick’s physical actions rather than focusing on Nick’s thoughts and feelings. He allows the readers to see that Nick is avoiding his emotions and is allowing himself to be absorbed in his physical activity as a form of therapy. By returning to nature and activities he is familiar with, Nick can just go through the motions without letting his thoughts and feelings surface: “He felt he left everything behind, the need for thinking, the need to write, other needs. It was all back of him.” (210) Here the narrator shows Nick attempting to escape from civilization and...
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...creative, and witty to one person to another person it could be the most boring, uninteresting, and redundant piece of literature they have ever read. In this semester of Literature 221, I was given the opportunity to read works from many different genres, time periods, and styles of writing. Some of which, like Emily Dickinson’s Life I and Life XLIII, Joyce Carol Oates’ Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?, and Sherman Alexie’s What You Pawn I Will Redeem I thoroughly enjoyed and learned from. While others such as Ernest Hemingway’s Big Two-Hearted River, Mark Twain’s excerpt When The Buffalo Climbed a Tree from Roughing It, and the excerpt from Sula by Toni Morrison weren’t exactly my cup of tea. Emily Dickinson is a remarkable poet who often writes from a very emotional and self-examining perspective. This is why I really enjoyed the two selections of her work we had to read this semester. In her first poem Life I, the very first two lines make you stop and think, “I’M nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too?” (Dickinson 2) Bam! I was hit in the face with self-reflection. Am I somebody? Or am I a nobody? Emily Dickinson continues by saying “how dreary to be somebody!” (Dickinson2 ) as if to be somebody is a bad thing. I love that Emily Dickinson questions the ideology of having to be surrounded by people and having to constantly be in a spotlight. Every move that you make is questioned and examined by people. Instead of being able to live for yourself and for your own...
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...English 2328 Spring 2011 Unit Two: Early Twentieth Century Review Sheets |Survey Highlights |Modernism in American Literature |Imagism, Imagery, Image | |Major Authors |Some distinguishing characteristics— |From Pound's "A Retrospect": | |Historical Context |Rejection of traditional values and assumptions, in society and art. |—Three principles of Imagism: | |Intellectual Movements |Strong break with traditional literary forms and techniques of |1. Direct treatment of 'thing' whether subjective or objective. | |Genres, Elements of Literature |expression. |2. To use absolutely no word that does not contribute to the | |Authors |—Avant-garde, innovative |presentation. | |Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, and T. S. Eliot |—Frost's "old-fashioned way to be new" |3. As regarding...
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...Ernest Hemingway The author's life: * Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. His father was a physician, and his mother, was a musician. * Beginning his career as a journalist for the Kansas City Star, Hemingway chose the newspaper instead of pursuing a college career, and although he only stayed with the Star for a mere six months, he used the newspaper’s style guide as a foundation for his writing. Later, The Star named Hemingway its top reporter for the last hundred years. * Unable to pass the physical examination due to poor vision, Hemingway could not join the United States Army as his father had hoped. Instead, he chose the Red Cross Ambulance Corps and served on the Italian front. One of his first short stories entitled, A Natural History of the Dead was written after witnessing the brutalities of war. After a war injury, a romantic relationship with one of his nurses spurred the writing of A Farewell to Arms and A Very Short Story. * After the war, Hemingway returned to newspaper work with the Toronto Star. In 1921, he married his first wife and they eventually moved to Paris and then to Canada. During this time period, Hemingway wrote some of his greats such as The Sun Also Rises, A Moveable Feast, and In Our Time. * In 1927 Hemingway divorced Hadley Richardson and married Pauline Pfeiffer. * The rest of his life contained triumphs such as For Whom the Bell Tolls, the Pulitzer Prize in...
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...Before I Was Born The Pravecek family is very kind and likes to have lots of fun. We also like to joke around and play kickball when it is a holiday. My family likes to play cards when the sun goes down. It is always a good day when we have fun and get to see all of our family. Christmas is the best in my family because it’s not about the gifts it’s about the fun. Family is not an important thing, it’s everything. - Michael J. Fox Grandpa was from Czechoslovakia. His name was Ernie Pravecek. Ernie was in search of new life because he didn’t like the life over there. He came by boat. Then he eventually settled around Tindal and Scotland South Dakota. In his family he had three brothers and one sister that were over in the states already....
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...be successful . This country has the highest percentage than any other country of orphanage. Just a little over half of Haitians can read and write while the others are illiterate. The Literate population makes up only fifty two percent. Another significant role in Haiti is the popular sport of Soccer; this is commonly played in the country. One of the greatest...
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...Keifer has also made it real clear that all people are welcome to our community no matter age, race, or sex. “ Although there is not much diversity between races, Grand Rapids, or Gilead as it was known as from1833 to 1868, was founded by a number of diverse races”, as reported by Boy Scout Historian Mark Tolles from Troup 325. Although Grand Rapids is a big hearted community, there are only about 1,002 people that occupy our village. According to the census report of 2000, we have a prodominetly white community at 97.21% but there are other races present African Americans at .20%, Native Americans at .20%, Asian Americans at .40%, and other races at 1.60%. We also have a population of 2.89% that are Hispanic. (Wikipedia, 2011) I believe that the Census is only partially accurate because, from the middle of July to the middle of November we have migrants come to our village with a work Visa to help maintain and harvest our local Pumpkins and Tomato’s, according to Mandon Freeworth a local farmer. Mr. Freeworth stated that he alone hires around 250 Hispanics that can prove that they have a work permit during these months, and two other farmers that he knows hires another 100 people each bringing the total to 450 Hispanics with work permits. Our town keeps everything on hand that our visitors may need for the few months that they will live here. The only thing that I wish this town has was a A Race Influenced Town bus or something along...
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...Into the Wild Argumentative Essay Into the Wild is a 1996 non-fiction book written by Jon Krakauer. It is an expansion of Krakauer's 9,000-word article on Christopher McCandless titled "Death of an Innocent", which appeared in the January 1993 issue of Outside. Christopher Johnson McCandless was an intelligent, idealistic young man who believed that life was best lived alone, in nature. He spent two years testing his theory throughout the western United States before he entered the wilds of Alaska unprepared and starved to death. Chris had a very bright, hopeful future and why he left it all behind confuses most people. After analyzing Chris's personality traits, it helps things make sense. This makes many people ask the question, what was Christopher McCandless's temperament type? The theory of temperament type was introduced in the 1920s by Carl G. Jung. The essence of the theory is that much seemingly random variation in the behavior is actually quite orderly and consistent, being due to basic differences in the ways individuals prefer to use their perception and judgment. Based on evidence from the story, Chris McCandless was most likely an INTP (introverted, intuitive, thinking, and perceiving) temperament type. This means he was focused internally, where he dealt with things rationally and logically. Some people would diagree wiht this position and would argue that Chris McCandless leaned towards the preference of sensing and feeling. There is some evidence provided...
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...“A Handful of Dates” The Story “A Handful of Dates” by Tayeb Salih is about a boy whose feelings for his grandfather were changing little by little. First the boy loved his grandfather. He liked to spend a lot of time with him because he felt his grandfather was a perfect person with a pure heart. Also, he wanted to be like his grandfather in the future. The boy and the grandfather had a neighbor named Masood who his grandfather didn’t like. The boy felt curious about what happened with his neighbor, but when the boy asked his grandfather about Masood, the grandfather said bad things about him. After that, the boy realized that Masood was a person with happiness and he remembered his beautiful voice. That’s why he started to change his mind about his grandfather because he realized his grandfather was not what he thought. Throughout the story, the boy learned what he saw and believe was not always true and sometimes people are not how you imagine. At the beginning of the story, the boy loved his grandfather. He admired and looked up to his grandfather. He wanted to be just like him. The boy says, “The strange thing was that I never used to go out with my father, rather, it was my grandfather takes me with him wherever he went.” (P.2) This shows, the relationship between the boy and his grandfather,. The boy loved to go where grandfather takes him to because the boy liked him so much. For another example, the boy says, I loved him and would imagine myself, when I grew to...
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...points I would like to make before we study Hellenic and Hellenistic Greece . Our text is lacking some of the literary and philosophical examples I think you need – we are trying to have as “interdisciplinary” a study as possible, so I’m adding background I think is pertinent and is just fun stuff to know! Prehistory: The text discussed the period when man was still nomadic and groups subsisted as hunter/gatherers. There are two art works that are remarkable as “mirrors of mind” of those earliest people. Don’t be confused by the sequence of the illustrations in your book – the very earliest of the artistic works we have is the “Woman [or ‘Venus’] of Willendorf”. Was this a sculpture of a specific woman? Does it show details? Is its nudity indicative of a lusty sexual obsession of the artist? Why would this subject be a priority for early expression? Really ponder these questions independently for a moment before reading on. If early Mankind was aware of anything, it was that life is CYCLICAL. There are cycles of the moon, of rivers flooding, menstrual cycles, childbearing cycles, seasonal cycles, cycles of the day from sunrise to sunset, etc.. Woman is the source of life and the womb and breasts nourish new life. No, this is not a statue of a particular woman – the features are very abstract and generic. The artist pays homage to womankind as a whole and to her epitomizing the cycles of life which impacted every day. Thousands of years later, we have the fascinating...
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