《乞力马扎罗山的雪》的主题与创作技巧

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《乞力马扎罗山的雪》的主题与创作技巧

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I  Biography of the Author and the Novel

 

 

1.0  Introduction

   The first part of this paper is the brief introduction about the author and the novel, especially the simple analysis about the leading character Harry’s whole life. So the reader can be obtained the preliminary recognition about its background and theme.  

 

1.1  Biography of the author

Firstly, it is the introduction about the author. Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois, started his career as a writer in a newspaper office in Kansas city at the age of seventeen. After the United States entered the First World War, he joined a volunteer ambulance unit in the Italian army. Serving at the front, he was wounded, was decorated by the Italian Government, and spent considerable time in hospitals. After his return to the United States, he became a reporter for Canadian and American newspapers and was soon sent back to Europe to cover such events as the Greek Revolution. During the twenties, Hemingway became a member of the group of expatriate Americans in Paris, which he described in his first important work, ‘The sun Also Rises’ Equally successful was ‘ A Farewell to Arms’ ,the study of an American ambulance officer’s disillusionment in the war and his role as a deserter. Hemingway used his experiences as a reporter during the civil war in Spain as the background for his most ambitions novel,’ For whom the Bell Tolls,’ Among his later works, the most outstanding is the short novel,’ the old man and the sea,’ the story of and old fisherman’s journey, his long and lonely struggle with a fish and the sea, and his victory in defend. Hemingway-himself a great sports man –like to portray soldiers, hunters, bullfighters-tough at times primitive people whose courage and honesty are set against the brutal ways of modern society, and who in this confrontation lose hope and faith. These have been well reflected in the novel’ The snows of Kilimanjaro.’ Besides his straight for ward prose, his spare dialogue, and his predilection for understatement are particularly effective in his short stories, some of which are collected in ‘Men without women’ and ‘The Fifth Column and the First Forth nine stories (1938).Hemingway died in Idaho in 1961.

 

1.2  Summary of the story 

‘The Snows of Kilimanjaro’ written by Hemingway in 1936, was generally thought to be the Hemingway’s short story of a high order.②This story is very simple. The leading character, Harry is a writer on safari in Africa with his wife, Helen. They are temporarily stranded when their truck breaks down from a burned out bearing .while photographing a herd of waterbuck, Harry’s knee is scratched by a thorn. Gangrene develops in his right leg. Harry attributes the problem to his failure to apply iodine to the wound .The rotting leg has an awful w

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