To be suffering in someway is normal in today’s society, to feel sad or helpless. However, it’s important you don’t hold this to yourself, but either tell someone about it and open your self and let people in instead of keeping them out. You can tell your parents, teachers or friends, and maybe they can help you in some way. It’s not brave to suffer in silence, it’s cowardly.
We have just read a short story by Hemingway called “A day’s wait“. The story is about a nine-year-old boy from Germany who thought he would die of a fever. However, he had 102 fever in faitheists but he thought it was 102 degrees Celsius. The short story is in a way about how he suffers in silence, how he refused to tell anybody about his “soon death”.
The Lost Generation
The Lost Generation is a concept who took place after the first world war. It describes a feeling across young men who have lost their youth because of the war. It says the generation who was born between 1883 to 1900 are the once who suffered the most to this concept.
An influential style
Hemingway and other Lost Generation writers, including F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sherwood Anderson expressed their ideas in writing styles that were new and different. Hemingway’s writing style, particularly his method of writing dialogue, has influenced many other writers. He is one of the most often imitated writers of the 1900s
Fact becomes fiction
Like much of Hemingway’s writing, “A Day’s Wait” is based on actual events in Hemingway’s life. While Hemingway was living in France, his son came down with a high fever and reacted similarly to the boy in the story you will read.
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