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The Snow of Kilimanjaro essay

Daniela Margarita Lázaro Pérez

Análisis de textos ingleses

Corporación Universitaria del Caribe – CECAR

Facultad de Humanidades y Educación
Licenciatura en inglés
Modalidad Virtual
Sincelejo
2021
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The Snow of Kilimanjaro

The story begins with a conversation between two people, they are talking about
pain and unpleasant smells. Paying immediate attention to the theme of the story,
unless rescue comes, Harry will undoubtedly die. This is not surprising, because
death is the center of the story.

Death is certain in life of the people, but our view of it will change over time. "The
Snow of Kilimanjaro" tells the story of a rich man who travels to Africa. The man's
wife is a tall and rich woman. This man is a wealthy writer, which hurts his writing
career. He doesn't love the women he married, he just likes women's bodies and
pockets.

The topic of the death in this history are reflected in the following parts, for
example:

 “Since the gangrene started in his right leg he had no pain and with the pain the
horror had gone and all he felt now was a great tiredness and anger that this
was the end of it.”

  “Now in his mind he saw a railway station at Karagatch and he was standing
with his pack and that was the headlight of the Simplon-Orient cutting the dark
now and he was leaving Thrace then after the retreat.”

 “It moved up closer to him still and now he could not speak to it, and when it
saw he could not speak it came a little closer, and now he tried to send it away
without speaking, but it moved in on him so its weight was all upon his chest,
and while it crouched there and he could not move or speak”
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Bibliografía
Hemingway, E., 2014. Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories. New York: Scribner, pp.1-15.