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    The document discusses the theme of death in Ernest Hemingway's works such as "For Whom the Bell Tolls", "Across the River and Into the Trees", and "The Old Man and the Sea". It notes that five of his seven completed novels end with the death of the male protagonist, and one ends with the death of the female protagonist. It also discusses how his father's suicide influenced him. Additionally, the document examines Hemingway's stylistic elements in the short story "Hills Like White Elephants" through statistical analysis of grammatical patterns and the playful use of language.

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    The document discusses the theme of death in Ernest Hemingway's works such as "For Whom the Bell Tolls", "Across the River and Into the Trees", and "The Old Man and the Sea". It notes that five of his seven completed novels end with the death of the male protagonist, and one ends with the death of the female protagonist. It also discusses how his father's suicide influenced him. Additionally, the document examines Hemingway's stylistic elements in the short story "Hills Like White Elephants" through statistical analysis of grammatical patterns and the playful use of language.

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    Hemingway. Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Vol. 203. Detroit: Gale. From Literature Resource

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    Jia Min Chen ENG201-612 Professor: Elizabeth Berlinger

    1. Topic: The Fascination with Death in Hemingways works

    ------Listoe, Daniel. Writing toward Death: The Stylistic Necessities of the Last Journeys of Ernest Hemingway. Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Vol. 203. Detroit: Gale. From Literature Resource Center,2008. Listoe addresses the theme of death in Hemingway's later works, such as For Whom the Bell Tolls,Across the River and Into the Trees, and The Old Man and the Sea

    ------Donaldson, Scott. Ernest (Miller) Hemingway,American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies, Retrospective Supplement 1. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998. Five of his seven completed novels end with the death of a male protagonist; a sixth ends with the death of the heroine. How his fathers suicide inflect him.

    ------Tyler, Lisa. Student Companion to Ernest Hemingway. Greenwood Press, 09/2001 The life of Ernest Hemingway. Analyze the works of Ernest Hemingway.

    2. From Hemingways style to understand the subjects (theme) in Hills Like White Elephants.

    ------Link, Alex. STAKING EVERYTHING ON IT: A STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF LINGUISTIC PATTERNS IN "HILLS LIKE WHITE ELEPHANTS". Hemingway Review; Spring2004, Vol. 23 Issue 2, p66-74, 9p Abstract: Presents a statistical analysis of the grammatical patterns in "Hills Like White Elephants," by Ernest Hemingway as a means of opening new avenues for its interpretation. Story's careful deployment of pronouns and use of repetition; Suggestion that the ambiguous, repetitious language deepens the significance and raises the stakes of the couple's argument; Linguistic patterns that underscore the emotional violence, broaden the significance, and complicate the closure of the argument.

    ------O'Brien, Timothy D. Allusion, word play, and the central conflict in Hemingway's `Hills Like White Elephants'. Hemingway Review; Fall92, Vol. 12 Issue 1, p19, 7p Comments on Hemingway's book `Hills Like White Elephants.' Setting; Dialogue; Playful use of the word `fine.'

    ------O'Donnell, Isobel, Bloom, Harold PAMELA SMILEY ON CONVERSATIONAL STYLES IN "HILLS LIKE WHITE ELEPHANTS". Bloom's BioCritiques: Ernest Hemingway; Bloom's BioCritiques; 2003, p53-70, 18p A linguistic approach to the short story "Hills Like White Elephants," by Ernest Hemingway, comparing the conversational styles of the man and the women in terms of gender.

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