More Hemingway
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ziasudraRefugees from Thrace, Ernest Hemingway
The Toronto Daily Star, November 14, 1922
Setting: Sofia, Bulgaria.
Event: Grego-Turkish War, 1919-1922. The Thracian evacuation, shortly after Turkish victory.
Characters: Ernest Hemingway, Madame Marie, Shorty (and Company), soldiers.
Notable Quotes:
"...the same ghastly, shambling procession of people being driven from their homes is filing in unbroken line along the muddy road to Macedonia. A quarter of a million people take a long time to move."
~ Vivid imagery, connoting continual evacuation.
~ Literary device -- summary sentence at the end of paragraph, Hemingway's commentary: a quarter of a million people take a long time to move.
"I found the station a mud-hole crowded with soldiers, bundles, bed-springs, bedding, sewing machines, babies, broken carts, all in the mud and the drizzling rain."
~ Literary device -- alliteration: bundles, bed-springs, bedding, etc.
~ Repeated theme -- mud. Here and throughout the piece.
"Got some swell shots of a burning village to-day." Shorty pulled off a boot. "Good show—a burning village. Like kickin' over an ant hill."
~ Shorty is a moving picture operator. His speech is like a movie script.
~ Ant hill: imagery used in A Farewell to Arms symbolizing soldiers heading towards their death.
"I woke up about one o'clock in the morning with a bad chill, part of my Constantinople-acquired malaria, killed the mosquitoes who had supped too heavily to fly away from my face, waited out the chill, took a big dose of aspirin and quinine and went back to sleep. Repeated the process along toward morning."
~ Notable: frequent usage of active verbs.
"If you looked at any article of furniture, or any space on the wall steadily for a moment you saw it crawl, not literally crawl, but move in greasy, minute specks."
~ Vivid description of lice-infested furnitures.
"All the stream of slow big-wheeled bullock and buffalo carts, bobbing camel trains..."
~ More alliteration.
"I walked five miles with the refugee procession along the road, dodging camels that swayed and grunted along, past flat wheeled ox carts piled high with bedding......"
~ Paragraph about a five-mile walk is a 115-word sentence.
The Toronto Daily Star, November 14, 1922
Setting: Sofia, Bulgaria.
Event: Grego-Turkish War, 1919-1922. The Thracian evacuation, shortly after Turkish victory.
Characters: Ernest Hemingway, Madame Marie, Shorty (and Company), soldiers.
Notable Quotes:
"...the same ghastly, shambling procession of people being driven from their homes is filing in unbroken line along the muddy road to Macedonia. A quarter of a million people take a long time to move."
~ Vivid imagery, connoting continual evacuation.
~ Literary device -- summary sentence at the end of paragraph, Hemingway's commentary: a quarter of a million people take a long time to move.
"I found the station a mud-hole crowded with soldiers, bundles, bed-springs, bedding, sewing machines, babies, broken carts, all in the mud and the drizzling rain."
~ Literary device -- alliteration: bundles, bed-springs, bedding, etc.
~ Repeated theme -- mud. Here and throughout the piece.
"Got some swell shots of a burning village to-day." Shorty pulled off a boot. "Good show—a burning village. Like kickin' over an ant hill."
~ Shorty is a moving picture operator. His speech is like a movie script.
~ Ant hill: imagery used in A Farewell to Arms symbolizing soldiers heading towards their death.
"I woke up about one o'clock in the morning with a bad chill, part of my Constantinople-acquired malaria, killed the mosquitoes who had supped too heavily to fly away from my face, waited out the chill, took a big dose of aspirin and quinine and went back to sleep. Repeated the process along toward morning."
~ Notable: frequent usage of active verbs.
"If you looked at any article of furniture, or any space on the wall steadily for a moment you saw it crawl, not literally crawl, but move in greasy, minute specks."
~ Vivid description of lice-infested furnitures.
"All the stream of slow big-wheeled bullock and buffalo carts, bobbing camel trains..."
~ More alliteration.
"I walked five miles with the refugee procession along the road, dodging camels that swayed and grunted along, past flat wheeled ox carts piled high with bedding......"
~ Paragraph about a five-mile walk is a 115-word sentence.
