The snows of kilimanjaro

The the snow of kilimanjaro analysis done by my prose students

1. Summary of The Snows of Kilimanjaro

2. THEMES

3. Characters there are four characters: Harry : is the protagonist of the story. He is a writer, and has many experience in Europe Compton: Flies the plane that is meant to take harry back to the city to save his life. However, he exists only in Harry’s dream Molo is minor character , is the African servant who serves harry and Helen 2. Helen is major character , she’s Harry’s wife. She remains unnamed until the end of the story .

4. Setting Meadow, Afrika ( the place where Harry and his wife with some hunt crew trapped or stranded) Paris, Karagatched , and Constatinople (including the places he had visited during the war as he had experienced TIME Author Time : Published by Ernest Hemingway (1899 – 1961) about the snows of Kilimanjaro. Plot Time : Harry died and was taken to Mount Kilimanjaro using a plane that picked him up.

5. Style

6. Style in the story of the snows of Kilimanjaro Hemingway describe the sequence between Harry and Helen in the third person Hemingway divided the sentences into the stream of consciousness italicized for many of Harry’s memory sequence.

7. Style in the story of the snows of kilimanjaro Economic of language This is the classical of Hemingway characteristic style. His writing is most commonly known for simplicity and writes about important things in an indirect passion . Visual Imagery “Behind the house were fields and behind the fields was the timber. A line of Lombardy poplars ran from the house to the dock. Other poplars ran along the point. A road went up to the hills along the edge of the timber and along that road he picked blackberries” In “Kilimanjaro” Hemingway does not immediately tell the readers his protagonist is dying, but it can be found based on the characters’ indirect, clipped dialogue, and a few hints. Through this description the readers get the impression of an extraordinary or beautiful place.

8. The Leopard can be seen as a symbol of death, immortality, and possibly redemption The hyena and vultures are described as a illness, fear, and death Low-lying, hot plains areas as a symbol of the difficult or painful episodes in Harry’s life Gangrene the rotting of the flesh is a symbol of Harry’s soul 1 2 3 4 -Symbolism

9. Point of View Third Person Limited Omniscient Using the third person pronoun in narrating the story Story seen through the eyes of outside observer 1 2 The use of “he, she, her, and his” in narrating the story The narrator is not a character of the story.

10. Point of View Third Person Limited Omniscient Establishes intimate relationship between reader and narrator 3 4 Hemingway limits himself to a complete knowledge of only one character, that is “Harry”. Hemingway puts the reader into the mind of Harry and achieves immediacy from Harry’s thought. Access to consciousness of only one character

11. Moral Value One of the most difficult things to think about in life is one’s regrets. Something will happen to you and you will do the wrong thing and for years afterward you will wish you had done something different - Lemoy Snicket , Horseradish

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