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Symbolize
• • • Mount Kilimanjaro symbolizes the originality and holiness which are not ruined by the modern civilization. The vultures that descend upon and fly above the camp signify the continual presence of death. The gangrenous leg of the dying writer is a symbol of Harry’s moral corruption and artistic decay. Wealth and Harry’s wife’s fortune symbolize the very forces that have culminated in the deterioration of Harry’s moral and artistic integrity. The frozen leopard(美洲豹) of the epigraph is a symbol of Harry “immortalized” as a reward for his bravado in the face of his imminent death and for his ambition. The hunter, Compton symbolizes a classic archetype Ernest Hemingway, code heroes. The snow and mountains—the further reminders of Harry’s irreparably damaged integrity.
Figures of Speech
• Metonymy: • E.g. And he had chosen to make his living with something else instead of a pen or a pencil. ( being a writer) • Function: express briefly and effectively what would otherwise require a whole clause or sentence.
The Themes of Hemingway’s Works
—Sterility , Failure and Death
• Hemingway’s works often deal with Sterility, failure and death, which unmask his negative comment on the society. And the theme of The Snows of Kilimanjaro is death.
Ernest Hemingway
Contents
I. The Themes of Hemingway’s Works and Hemingway’s Writing Features.
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Summary of The Story.
III. Rhetorical Devices. IV. What I Thought of This Novel.
Summary of The Story
• The Snows of Kilimanjaro was written during Hemingway’s second travel and haunting in Africa. It tells a story about Harry, a writer, who went to Africa to gain a new life with his lover Helen. Because Harry did not use iodine when a thorn scratched his knee, he was infected and got the gangrene. The story just showed what happened to Harry when he awaited death on the vast prairie. Harry could not move physically at that time, but his thoughts were active, therefore, he recalled his former life, regretted deeply. In the end, his soul went to the summit of Kilimanjaro when he finally died.
Syntactic Devices
• Polysyndeton: e.g. So now it was all over, he thought. So now he would never have a chance to finish it. So this was the way it ended in a bickering over a drink. • Function: Effectively convey the mood of the hero—Harry, dying, and regretting.
Lexical Devices
• Lexical Repetition: Lexical Epistrophe: e.g. Please tell me what I can do. There must be something I can do.
• Function: emphasis, heightening of the hero’s ill mood, tension and atmosphere.
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Rhetorical Devices
• Lexical Devices
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Syntactic Devices Figures of Speech
Lexical Devices
• Lexical options: the use of short words, common words, informal words or colloquial words, and general words. e.g. snow, mountain, truck, plane, drink, write, quarrel, die, love, wealthy, etc. • Function: easy for reader to understand.
Syntactic Devices
• Antithesis: e.g. "Now is it sight or is it scent that brings them like that?" Function: to achieve force and emphasis.
Syntactic Devices
Figures of Speech
• Personification: e.g. A fourth planed down, to run quicklegged and then waddle slowly toward the others. • Function: To make the context more vivid and to form an image in the reader’s mind.
What We Thought of This Novel
• Death is not horrible because everyone is mortal, and it is the end of every life. What really matters is the inner spirit ,just like Harry, when he realized that he had achieved nothing in his whole life, even deserted his career—writing, his death came as follow. “No such grief as is caused by a dead heart “,so we should keep a positive mood and “still pursuing and still achieving every day”.
• Parallelism: e.g. It was a talent all right but instead of using it, he had traded on it. It was never what he had done, but always what he could do. And he had chosen to make his living with something else instead of a pen or a pencil. It was strange. • Function: to add clarity and coherence to the writer’s thoughts.
Hemingway’s Writing Features
• A painstaking selection process of words. • Iceberg principle: the full meaning of the text is not limited to moving full meaning of the plot forward. In other words, there is always a wed of association and inference, a submerged reason behind the inclusion of every detail. • Colloquial style, easy to understand. • Consistent of short, concrete, direct prose and scenes consisting exclusively of dialogue, which gives the story a distinctive accessibility that is immediately identifiable with the author.
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• Sarcasm: e.g. "Love is a dunghill," said Harry. "And I'm the cock that gets on it to crow." Function: to disparage, ridicule the feelings of himself, that he had found his love for his wife when it was too late.