Ernest Hemingway's A Clean, Well-Lighted Place

In Billie’s Lett’s The Honk and Holler Opening Soon, Caney’s café is mistakenly named The Honk and Holler Opening Soon. However, the mistake on the sign of the café symbolizes the beginning of new possibilities for the characters in the novel as well as how the characters grow throughout the novel. Caney has been emotionally “closed” since opening the café as exemplified through him not venturing outside of the café for twelve years. However, Caney begins to emotionally “open up” to Vena Takes Horse during the first half of the novel. Furthermore, Caney also “opens up” by venturing outside of the café and taking a horse ride with Vena. Letts writes, “Suddenly, Caney grabbed the wheels of his chair, gave them a powerful jerk and popped the chair over the threshold. Clearing the door frame, feeling the heat of the sun on his face, he squinted against the glare” (116). Caney telling Vena about his experience in Vietnam also symbolizes Caney “opening up.” Caney and Vena’s burgeoning relationship is another way that the sign of the café is reflected in the lives of the characters: “But now, Vena Takes

Hemingway sets the story environment at a train station, with two very different sides of the tracks. This setting proves to be as a metaphor for the choice at hand, an interpretation of life or death. One side reflecting a dry, harsh area, with no trees, and devoid of life, on the other side of the tracks, some distance away “were fields of grain and trees along the banks of the Ebro. Far away, beyond the river were mountains. The shadow of a cloud moved across the field of grain and she saw the river through the trees” (Hemingway 125), which depicts a thriving, plush area, full of life. The issue seems underlined in the background throughout the entirety of this story. In being able to fully involve yourself in the scene, the conversation, and the

Author – Lynda Hull is the author of the poem “The Night Waitress”. Hull had been developing an impressive career in Literature when she died in a car accident. She was influenced heavily by Hart Crane, she had allegedly memorized his poems, as well as jazz musicians. Hull taught English in many universities and also served as Poetry Editor for a journal.

In Barbara Lazear Ascher’s essay “On Compassion” she analyzes the idea of compassion primarily through the way society treats the homeless/less fortunate. Using anecdotal narratives and rhetorical questions, she contemplates on the true motives behind compassion and encourages her audience to ponder on this same situation. *

One of the best-selling authors, Barbara Ehrenreich, in her narrative essay, “Serving in Florida,” describes her personal experience working in a local restaurant called Jerry’s. Ehrenreich’s purpose is to attach importance to the low-wage America workplace. Using rhetorical strategies such as negative diction, simile, images, and pathos, Ehrenreich attempts to raise public awareness of the low-wage workers’ life in her readers.

In the short story "A clean, well lighted place", author Ernest Hemingway uses the belief of nihilism to create a feeling of hopelessness among the elder inhabitants of the story. Nihilism is a philosophical doctrine in which one believes that life is meaningless, and this can be interpreted as the rejection of all religions. Towards the end of the story, the old bartender goes on a Spanish-filled rant describing the nothingness of life, and even incorporates a section of the Lord 's prayer into his rant. Lonely and worn, the old bartender refuses to acknowledge a force greater than himself that could give his life meaning and instead chooses to carry the burden of his familiar despair.

Overall, I feel like “Death In The Afternoon” at first shocks the reader. It is a controversial opinion to defend such a practice that goes against “basic” morality. Hemingway makes constant attempts to connect with the reader from using theatre, to wine tasting, orchestras to newspapers. He makes this attempt although it is unlikely that the reader is to agree with his view even though he is making the reader view through different lenses. It is best to approach this selection with not only an open-mind but with patience and

When I initially read the book, I was infuriated with the fact that Santiago wouldn’t let go of the fish. If he loved it as much as he said he did, he should’ve let it go. However, as I reflected, I began to fall in love with the book. In Santiago, Hemingway has created a hero who epitomizes honesty, bravery, endurance, and belief. No amount of pain or physical abuse can extinguish Santiago 's honor and pride, which remains unconquerable. Even in his vile existence, the old man is proud, saying that he will have fish to eat at home, even though he knows he hasn

"She shot very well this good, this rich bitch, this kindly caretaker and destroyer of his talent. Nonsense. He had destroyed his talent himself.“

For America, the 1920s is known as a roaring era when economic prosperity and social dynamism splendidly blossomed; It is also an era in which people’s wealth and backgrounds are directly employed in defining their identities. By making subtle changes to the original plot, the movie The Great Gatsby puts a stronger emphasis on social stratification not only between the apparent rich and the poor, but also between the old money and new money. The movie depicts the uncrossible barriers among different classes in an explicit manner, illustrating each class’s struggle in the hierarchy and allowing the individuals’ characters develop to the fullest.

After coaching a lacrosse camp all day my friends and I treated ourselves to a cup of iced tea from Mean Cup. It was a bit of a hike from the lacrosse field but it was well worth it. The seasons were just starting to change from summer to fall and I could feel It in the air. For me, fall is my favorite season to get any kind of drink. The weather is never constantly too hot to get a coffee or too cold to get an iced tea, it is always somewhere in the middle. Today was a picture perfect fall day chilly with a slight breeze and a sun that made it feel like my face was a sponge and absorbing all the sun’s rays. A beautiful day like today always leaves me craving a chilled beverage.

Some of my most notable memories take form as early morning breakfasts. Most days I’d eat a variation of cereal, yogurt, or maybe some fruit. But once in a while, there’d special morning where my Dad cooked up a breakfast. Now, the meal itself had little notability; sometimes there were eggs, sometimes whole-wheat popovers, sometimes toast. What really made those breakfasts special, though, were the stories. Stories of my Dad’s dreams of owning a little restaurant on the lakefront, of little chairs and little tables, of having a laminated menu with items ranging from his eggs, to his whole-wheat popovers, to his toast. “Joe’s Café,” he’d call it. Day after day, he’d tell me his aspirations of owning a gourmet restaurant, even though an hour later he’d sit in the driver’s seat of his Toyota on the way to his office job.

The road to a relationship with God is not straight, it is ever changing with challenges and curves and ups and downs. This is a main theme in the memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel, where Elie has a struggling relationship with God. He thinks that God has abandoned him and his dad so he does not feel the need to continue his relationship with God. Elie was excited about his faith but the holocaust makes him feel angry and confused with God.

Also enjoyed by more than just practicing Santeros is the musical influences of Santeria. Since an entire generation of Cuban artists fled or were exiled from the island when the Communist Fidel Castro came into power, the development of Cuban music suffered greatly. As a result of this missing domestic creativity, modern Cuban music is a fusion of different genres from abroad. With each imported genre, Cubans have added their own spin to the music. Though pure Cuban music is now rare, one surviving element of the native music is the upbeat rhythm produced by the usage of 3 different hand drums called tambors. These drums are thought to have a soul and stem from Santerian rituals. Each drum is believed to communicate with a voice specific to itself and are the voice of the orishas. One such drum is the bata. This drum is used to produce rhythms known as a "conversation." It is played at

The Cosmic Race, by José Vasconcelos, is about the new race that will arise in Latin America from the mixing of all races and the society they’ll create. It is an extremely influential essay in Mexico and still widely regarded today. In the The Cosmic Race it is said that America is the ancient home of the now lost Atlantean civilization (Vasconcelos 7). The downfall of the Atlanteans spawned four races: the Indian, the Black, the Mongol, and the White (Vasconcelos 9). Latin America, the essay argues, will be the homeland of the new Neo-Atlantean race as it already the racial melting pot of so many races (Vasconcelos 17-18). This essay, both intentionally and unintentionally gives us a glimpse of contemporary Latin American race relations,