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    The document discusses three short stories: Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson, which discusses trusting one's own intuition and individuality; The Short Happy Life of Francis Maccomber by Ernest Hemingway, which describes an affair between characters Francis, Helen, and Harry, who suffers from writer's block; and The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Hemingway, which involves a character named Harry Street attempting to reach the top of Mount Kilimanjaro and is compared to a decaying leopard carcass found there.

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    The document discusses three short stories: Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson, which discusses trusting one's own intuition and individuality; The Short Happy Life of Francis Maccomber by Ernest Hemingway, which describes an affair between characters Francis, Helen, and Harry, who suffers from writer's block; and The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Hemingway, which involves a character named Harry Street attempting to reach the top of Mount Kilimanjaro and is compared to a decaying leopard carcass found there.

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    Self Reliance Questions

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    The document discusses three short stories: Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson, which discusses trusting one's own intuition and individuality; The Short Happy Life of Francis Maccomber by Ernest Hemingway, which describes an affair between characters Francis, Helen, and Harry, who suffers from writer's block; and The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Hemingway, which involves a character named Harry Street attempting to reach the top of Mount Kilimanjaro and is compared to a decaying leopard carcass found there.

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    Self-Reliance

    What are the three important epigraphs in Ralf Waldo Emerson’s


    Self-Reliance?
    Importance of believing one’s own intuition?
    Why we need to trust thyself?
    Annotate – “Trust Thyself”
    “Infancy confirms to nobody, all conforms to it”
    “A Foolish consistency is the hop-goblin of little minds”
    Who is man and what are his virtues according to R.W. Emerson?

    The Short Happy Life of Francis Maccomber


    How Ernest Hemingway portrays the tragedies in his short stories
    Sketch the character of Harry Street, Helen
    Describe the affair between in the characters of The Short Happy Life
    of Francis Maccomber.
    Defines writers’ block. How harry was suffering in the writers’ block?
    Themes of the story- Escapism

    The Snows of Kilimanjaro


    Setting of Kilimanjaro?
    Why the leopard’s carcass was found on the top of Mount
    Kilimanjaro?
    In what way Harry Street compares with the leopard?
    What was the Harry Street’s motive to reach that height?

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