Hemingway and Modernism

We are first introduced to the main characters in the story through their dialogue (conversation between them).

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CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

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During the story, the main characters do not return to civilization to get Harry medical care because he is stubborn and doesn't want to.

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CCSS.RL.7.3

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Harry is suffering from snakebite.

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Helen does not want Harry to drink scotch and soda, but eventually she decides to have cocktails with him in the evening.

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

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CCSS.RL.11-12.7

The animal associated with death in the story is the hyena.

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CCSS.RL.1.10

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.K.5

Helen does not know how to hunt, so the helpers have to catch their dinner.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

Harry has several flashbacks of life experiences he could have written about as he is dying, which Hemingway describes using stream-of-consciousness style.

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The modernists broke with traditional styles of art and high culture, but not necessarily because they wanted to attack the traditional.

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High modernism is generally considered to have begun AFTER World War II (1950 onward).

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Hemingway, as a modernist, broke with traditional literary forms in his own way by stripping away what he considered artifice; a key method of his was using a straightforward, direct, and sometimes even raw writing style.

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