Hemingway’s Devices
1. Setting: The setting is a time or place that creates a mood for an action. Hemingway uses the setting in his book to promote a sense of realism, to convey emotions, and to foreshadow future events....
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“I want to make sure that I leave it alone long enough so I can find the places where I get the kick when writing it and neglect to convey it to the reader” (Hemingway 1928 to Maxwell Perkins)....
View ArticleHow did Jazz music begin?
There were a lot of French and Spanish men who were immigrants in New Orleans. These immigrants would marry African-American women. Their children were called Creoles. “Out of the sounds of New...
View ArticleWhat will Henry do now? (SPOILER ALERT!!!)
Now that his child, he had no feelings for, and his only love, Catharine, are dead what will Henry do? One possibility is that Henry could dedicate his life to finding Rinaldi and the Priest, since...
View ArticleCan’t Repeat The Past?
“‘I wouldn’t ask too much of her,’ I ventured. ‘You can’t repeat the past.’ ‘Can’t repeat the past?’ he cried incredulously. ‘Why of course you can!’” (Fitzgerald 111). This quote is from the part of...
View ArticleThe differences:
With the mainstream movie The Great Gatsby out now there is always and forever going to be this comparison to the book. At first when I started reading I saw Leonardo as Gatsby, but as there started to...
View ArticleBook Blog #1: Next by Michael Crichton
Everything we have read so far is based on a story or is entirely in the authors imagination. With science fiction novels research must be done because a majority of the time actual scientific facts...
View ArticleBook Blog #2: Next by Michael Crichton
One thing I have noticed about his writing is that he focuses on the inside of the story a lot with detail and jumping around from one side of the story to what is happening meanwhile. I feel like some...
View ArticleBook Blog #3: Next by Michael Crichton
The book, if not already spooky enough gets stranger. There is a talking orangutan in Sumatra. Henry had worked on an experiment that failed but in this chimpanzee it allowed it to speak and feel and...
View ArticleBook Blog #4: Next by Michael Crichton
After reading this book I can say that I learned more about how corrupt science has to get for advancement and truly understand the questioning of morals as a scientist. I close the book feeling...
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