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Writing style—known as the iceberg theory economy and understatement
The characters he presented exhibited authenticity that reverberated（回响） with his audience.
Content
It tells a story about Harry, a writer, who goes to Africa to gain a new life with his lover Helen. Because Harry does not use iodine when a thron(刺儿) scratches his knee, he is infected and gets the gangrene. The story just shows what happens to Harry when he awaits death on the vast prairie. Harry can not move physically at that time, but his thoughts are active, therefore, he recalls his former life and regrets deeply. In the end, his soul goes to the summit of Kilimanjaro when he finally dies.
The appearance of death
Main Characters
Harry
Like other patriotic young men, Harry volunteeres to fight in the front line and fight for his country. He used to be an upright young man with good ideals and love. He is also a talented writer, but ends up indulging in a decadent lifestyle for his obsession with money, and thus gives up his writing skills.
A Reading of Hemingway’s The Snows Of Kilimanjaro
Contents
Introduction of the writer Background of the creation Content Main Characters Theme Writing techniques References
The war brings Harry's spiritual wounds, and the war breaks his rules of life, and then he becomes a slave to life, selling himself and destroying his talents for the sake of ease. Harry hates his present situation and complains that he has ruined everything and regrets his wasted life.
Harry is looking for the transcendence of life. He seeks out the true meaning of life in the desolate continent of Africa, and finally realizes the immortality of the spirit in death.
In another word, The Snows of Kilimanjaro should be viewed as an example of an author during the "Lost Generation", who experienced the world wars and the war in Spain, which led them to question morality and philosophy.his own code of human conduct: a mixture of hedonism and sentimental humanism.
The story begins with a paragraph about Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa, which is also called the “House of God”, so it gives people a feeling of holy, mystery and isolation from the madding crowd. Besides, with the emergence of the leopard, an embodiment of speed and beauty, the novel shows a different picture of death at the beginning, clean, immortal and slightly aesthetic.
Seven novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction works during his lifetime.
With a further three novels, four collections of short stories, and three non-fiction works published after his death.
Theme
--- The Snows of Kilimanjaro is a work of life and death, which describes death most directly among Hemingway's works.
From the book
“Kilimanjaro is a snow covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai "Ngàje Ngài," the House of God. Close to the western summit there is the dired and frozen carcass of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude.”
A day without love is a nightmare for her, so she can only drink and find comfort from her lover, though she doesn’t love them or even hate them. She no longer wants a lover and wine, she needs a man to admire and desire, and Harry appears.
In this novel, death is the ultimate and inevitable fate of Harry. As the end of life, hope and all, death seems to be a symbol of crushing everything. However, it is undoubtedly the climax of Harry's life.
Introduction of the writer
Ernest Miller Hemingway
July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961 American writer and journalist. Most of his work between the mid1920s and the mid-1950s, In 1954 he won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
From the book
“...ahead, all he could see, as wide as all the world, great, high, and unbelievably white in the sun, was the square top of Kilimanjaro. And then he knew that there was where he was going.”
The leopard didn't reach the to p of Kiliman jaro eventually, but it was near the western summit.
The leopard died, but its corpse has not been eaten immediately by scavengers like the animals which dead at the foot of the mountain. On the contrary, it is “frozen”, which becomes the personification of the immortal and the evidence of unremitting efforts.