Comparison Between Pale Horse, Pale Rider By Katherine Ann Porter And The Snows of Kilimanjaro By Ernest Hemingway
This paper is going to discuss and analyze fully two short American
fiction stories which are 'Pale horse, Pale Rider' by Katherine Ann
Porter and ' The Snows of Kilimanjaro' by Ernest Hemingway. By reading
the bibliographies of both these authors, one finds that Porter and
Hemingway have met in a certain period of their life, where they could
have shared lots of ideas and agreed on lots of different issues.
By the end of reading both stories, one notices that there are lots of
similarities found in both stories. One of the obviously noticed
similarity is the autobiographical elements which has been enriched
and elaborated on by the author's imaginations which makes it have the
reality of actual experience lived. It adds to the feelings of the
authors and the people who lived at that period and faced these kinds
of crisis.
Another similarity is the technique of switching from reality to
delirious dreams/ fantasy/hallucinations and vice versa. For example
in ' Pale horse, pale rider' the reader first sees Miranda in a dream
where she was in her childhood home " How I have loved this house in
the morning before we all awake and tangled together like badly cast
fishing lines…Too many have died in this bed already, there are far
too many ancestral bones propped up on the mantelpieces,… what
accumulation of storied dust never allowed to settle in peace for one
moment." With this wealth of precise, vivid details, the author hints
at important ideas that will be developed more fully and richly later
in the story. In the...
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... he dies from the disease that he caught from
Miranda and not from the war. But Miranda however, survived from the
disease. The other character is Harry who is also physically and
mentally sick. The physical illness of Harry is the gangrene, which
spreads through all of his body, and starting from his legs. It
started in his legs, but Harry seemed to ignore it, which lead to his
death. Harry's mental illness is really obvious in the story. Harry, a
hopeful writer, came to realize in his last moments of life that he
had not accomplished anything in his life. He began to blame others
for the death that was awaiting him and for all the things he never
wrote. Harry shows disappointment of not being able to write by
saying, "he would never write the things that he had saved to write
until he knew enough to write them well."
A Comparison of Storm on the Island by Seamus Heaney and Patrolling Barnegat by Walt Whitman
Is society too egotistical? In Hunters in the Snow, Tobias Wolfe gives an illustration of the selfishness and self-centeredness of humankind through the actions of his characters. The story opens up with three friends going on their habitual hunting routine; their names are Frank, Kenny, and Tub. In the course of the story, there are several moments of tension and arguments that, in essence, exposes the faults of each man: they are all narcissistic. Through his writing in Hunters in the Snow, Wolfe is conveying that the ultimate fault of mankind is egotism and the lack of consideration given to others.
In the passage a servant describes the class difference between himself and his masters. He is discontent servant whose ideas about his masters portrays his belittling and resentful attitude towards them.
" The Hemingway Review. 15.1 (Fall 1995): p. 27. Literature Resource Center -.
“A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.” -William James . The two stories that I am comparing are “The Weather of New England” by Mark Twain and “The Dog that Bit People” by James Thurber. These essays are both humorous essays. In “The Weather of New England” , it talks about the different , interesting types of weather in New England. In the dog story the crazy dog bites everyone even the own family. Both these humorous essays use style, tone, and perspective to tell their stories in their own way and describe their conflict.
Burroway, Janet. Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft. 6th ed. New York: Longman, 2003. As Rpt. in Rankin, Paul "Hemingway's `Hills Like White Elephants'." Explicator, 63 (4) (Summer 2005): 234-37.
The Latin saying, mutatis mutandi, translates into "everything affects everything else," and this especially applies to the characterization used in Ernest Hemingway’s "Hills Like White Elephants." Through close examination, it is evident that the character of Jig is revealed not only through her own actions, but also through the contrasting descriptions of her surrounding environment and her subtle mannerisms. By strategically scattering these faint clues to Jig’s persona though out the story, Hemingway forces the reader to overcome common stereotypes and examine ambiguous dialogue before being able to discover the round, dynamic character that is Jig.
In the story Life Of Pi by Yann Martel it talks about a boy who is lost at sea trying to go to Canada. In the other story The Snows Of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway talks about a man who is injured and need to get to the hospital. Even though both stories seem very similar they have some differences as well. In both of the stories the authors express the idea of death as coming in the form as an animal, they also use the animals to raise or lose hope of the protagonists, and finally the animals are used to bring pain and suffering to the protagonists as well.
He was sick; he has on the brink of death as his life began to catch up with him. Harry, the main character in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” by Ernest Hemingway, lays on a cot at the plains of Kilimanjaro dying from gangrene due to a self-inflected wound he never took care of. While on the edge of death, his true identity as a person begins to shine through. Is Harry a good man merely preparing for death in a terrible way? Or was his truly deceptive and abusive personality shining through at his last moments of life? While these questions are highly debated, there is evidence to prove that Harry was, indeed, a terrible man receiving his punishment for the life that he had lived. Harry was a con, a thief, an abuser, and a sluggard and was now receiving his poetic justice.
"Cat In The Rain" is set in an Italian hotel where we meet an American
Earnest Hemingway’s work gives a glimpse of how people deal with their problems in society. He conveys his own characteristics through his simple and “iceberg” writing style, his male characters’ constant urge to prove their masculinity.
The initial responses to the Green Hills of Africa fall into three categories: poor, indifferent, and promising. Starting with the poor reviews, always Hemingway’s favorites, John Chamberlain of the New York Times calls the novel “simply an overextended book about hunting”, not the “profound philosophical experience” that the foreword proposes it is. Further, it is “not one of Hemingway’s major works.”2 Newsweek says, “He said he wanted to write a novel and earn enough money to go back to Africa to "learn more about lions" and that is all he did.”3 Perhaps the most biting criticism comes from Edmund Wilson:
Ernest Hemingway was a nineteenth century author. He is remembered for such work as Fifty Grand, A Way You'll Never Be, and especially The Snows of Kilimanjaro. The Snows of Kilimanjaro, one of Hemingway's famous stories, shows how violence and dangerous people can be.
THESIS: In Hemmingway's The Snows of Kilimanjaro and O'Conner's A Good Man Is Hard to Find the authors similarly argue through , that redemption can only be achieved by those who truly have faith in their belief.
Behind every piece of literature, there is a story. Ernest Hemingway’s life experiences definitely led to the creation of his countless and remarkable novels and short stories. He traveled to many places and was able to see much of the world. Whenever something terrible or unpleasant happened to him, he always found a way to express it through his works. Ernest Hemingway’s experiences in World War I and his trip to Africa are reflected in the conflict of the main character and in the setting of his short story, “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”.