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Nick Adams (character)
Nicholas Adams is a fictional character, the protagonist of two dozen short stories and vignettes written in the 1920s and 1930s by American author Ernest Hemingway. Adams is partly inspired by Hemingway's own experiences, from his summers in Northern Michigan at Ernest Hemingway Cottage, his family cottage to his service in the Red Cross ambulance corps in World War I. The first of Hemingway's stories to feature Nick Adams was published in his 1925 collection ''In Our Time (short story collection), In Our Time'', with Adams appearing as a young child in the collection's first story, "Indian Camp". All Nick Adams stories were later collected in a 1972 book, published after Hemingway's death, titled ''The Nick Adams Stories''. They are, for the most part, stories of initiation and adolescence. Taken as a whole, as in ''The Nick Adams Stories'', they chronicle a young man's coming of age in a series of linked episodes. The stories are grouped according to major time periods in Nick's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Protagonist
A protagonist () is the main character of a story. The protagonist makes key decisions that affect the plot, primarily influencing the story and propelling it forward, and is often the character who faces the most significant obstacles. If a story contains a subplot, or is a narrative made up of several stories, then each subplot may have its own protagonist. The protagonist is the character whose fate is most closely followed by the reader or audience, and who is opposed by the antagonist. The antagonist provides obstacles and complications and creates conflicts that test the protagonist, revealing the strengths and weaknesses of the protagonist's character, and having the protagonist develop as a result. Etymology The term ''protagonist'' comes , combined of (, 'first') and (, 'actor, competitor'), which stems from (, 'contest') via (, 'I contend for a prize'). Ancient Greece The earliest known examples of a protagonist are found in Ancient Greece. At first, dramatic pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night Before Battle
Night (also described as night time, unconventionally spelled as "nite") is the period of ambient darkness from sunset to sunrise during each 24-hour day, when the Sun is below the horizon. The exact time when night begins and ends depends on the location and varies throughout the year, based on factors such as season and latitude. The word can be used in a different sense as the time between bedtime and morning. In common communication, the word ''night'' is used as a farewell ("good night", sometimes shortened to "night"), mainly when someone is going to sleep or leaving. Astronomical night is the period between astronomical dusk and astronomical dawn when the Sun is between 18 and 90 degrees below the horizon and does not illuminate the sky. As seen from latitudes between about 48.56° and 65.73° north or south of the Equator, complete darkness does not occur around the summer solstice because, although the Sun sets, it is never more than 18° below the horizon at lowe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Adams Stories
''The Nick Adams Stories'' is a volume of short stories written by Ernest Hemingway published in 1972, a decade after the author's death. In the volume, all the stories featuring Nick Adams, published in various collections during Hemingway's lifetime, are compiled in a single collection. ''The Nick Adams Stories'' includes 24 stories and sketches, eight of which were previously unpublished. Some of Hemingway's earliest work, such as "Indian Camp," as well as some of his best known stories, such as " Big Two-Hearted River," are represented. Contents This volume is divided into five sections: The Northern Woods * " Three Shots" * "Indian Camp" * "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife" * "Ten Indians" * " The Indians Moved Away" On His Own * "The Light of the World" * "The Battler" * "The Killers" * " The Last Good Country" * " Crossing the Mississippi" War * " Night Before Landing" * "'Nick sat against the wall ...'" * "Now I Lay Me" * "A Way You'll Never Be" * "In Another Countr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fathers And Sons (short Story)
"Fathers and Sons" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway published 1933, in the collection ''Winner Take Nothing''. It later appeared in ''The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories'' and '' The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories''. The story is a personal narrative that follows the path of Nick Adams as he drives through his hometown with his son. Most of the story is told through memories of Nick's childhood and Father. The story chronicles the relationships between three generations of men. Important themes in "Fathers and Sons" include father–son relationships, Nick's homecoming, growing up, and role models. Plot "Fathers and Sons" is a story about Nicholas Adams driving home with his son after a hunting trip in his hometown. Hunting imagery and small-town agriculture make Nick think about his father, who taught him how to hunt. Nick's father had a fantastic vision, but Nick says this skill made him nervous. Nick's father was a sentimental man, and Nick says tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cross-Country Snow
"Cross Country Snow" is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway. The story was first published in 1924 in Ford Madox Ford's literary magazine ''Transatlantic Review'' in Paris and republished by Boni & Liveright in Hemingway's first American volume of short stories ''In Our Time'' in 1925. The story features Hemingway's recurrent autobiographical character Nick Adams and explores the regenerative powers of nature and the joy of skiing. Background In 1922 Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley came to Paris where he worked as foreign correspondent for the ''Toronto Star''. During that period he made friends with modernist writers such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ford Madox Ford, James Joyce, Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein, who influenced his early development as a fiction writer.Desnoyers, Megan Floyd"Ernest Hemingway: A Storyteller's Legacy".JFK Library. Retrieved September 30, 2011 The year 1923 saw his first published work, a slim volume titled ''Three Stories and Ten Poems'', fol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
An Alpine Idyll
"An Alpine Idyll" is a short story by American writer Ernest Hemingway, set in Switzerland and presumably featuring protagonist Nick AdamsStudies in Short Fiction by Myra Armstead. Newberry, S.C. Vol. 14, Iss. 3, (Summer 1977): 255. Retrieved 28/09/2022. (though not explicitly named) It was published in 1927 in the collection '' Men Without Women'' but then rejected by '''',prezi.com [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
On Writing (Hemingway)
On Writing is a story fragment written by Ernest Hemingway which he omitted from the end of his short story, "Big Two-Hearted River", when it was published in 1925 in ''In Our Time''. It was then published after Hemingway's death in the 1972 collection ''The Nick Adams Stories''. Plot summary “On Writing” is a deleted ending to "Big Two-Hearted River," an account of Nick Adams' fishing trip in northern Michigan after World War I. When "On Writing" begins, Nick has caught one trout already and observes the river, considering where more fish might lie. Nick credits his knowledge to his friend Bill Smith. This reminds him of another friend, Bill Bird, and their adventures in Europe. His thoughts continue to his old group of friends, his wife Helen, and marriage both to a woman and to fishing, before moving on to memories of bullfighting. Nick then reflects on writing and how it can take reality as inspiration and motivation, but that the stories themselves must be invented. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wedding Day (short Story)
''The Nick Adams Stories'' is a volume of short stories written by Ernest Hemingway published in 1972, a decade after the author's death. In the volume, all the stories featuring Nick Adams, published in various collections during Hemingway's lifetime, are compiled in a single collection. ''The Nick Adams Stories'' includes 24 stories and sketches, eight of which were previously unpublished. Some of Hemingway's earliest work, such as "Indian Camp," as well as some of his best known stories, such as " Big Two-Hearted River," are represented. Contents This volume is divided into five sections: The Northern Woods * " Three Shots" * "Indian Camp" * "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife" * "Ten Indians" * " The Indians Moved Away" On His Own * "The Light of the World" * "The Battler" * "The Killers" * "The Last Good Country" * " Crossing the Mississippi" War * " Night Before Landing" * "'Nick sat against the wall ...'" * "Now I Lay Me" * "A Way You'll Never Be" * "In Another Country ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Summer People (short Story)
Elin Hilderbrand is an American writer, mostly of romance novels. Her novels are typically set on and around Nantucket Island, where she resides."Huffington Post" Accessed 24 November 2008. She was born and raised in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University, and was previously a teaching/writing fellow at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop."The Love Season" (back flap) Accessed 24 November 2008. In 2019, ''New York Magazine'' called Hilderbrand "the queen of beach reads". Currently, actress Ellen Pompeo has been working with ABC in adapting Hilderbrand's ''Paradise Trilogy'' into a TV series where she would star after her departure as the lead on '' Grey's Anatomy''. Biography Hilderbrand spent her summers on Cape Cod, "playing touch football at low tide, collecting sea glass, digging pools for hermit crabs, swimming out to the wooden raft off shore," until her father died in a plane crash when she was sixteen. She spent the next summer worki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Three-Day Blow
“The Three-Day Blow” is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway, published in the 1925 New York edition of ''In Our Time'', by Boni & Liveright.Oliver (1999), 324 The story is the fourth in the collection to feature Nick Adams, Hemingway's autobiographical alter ego. Plot summary The story is about Nick and Bill and takes place at Bill's father's cottage, where the two get drunk. The story begins with Nick walking around the orchard near the cabin. He picks up a Wagner apple and puts it in his pocket. Nick climbs the stairs to the cottage and Bill meets him at the door, telling Nick that Bill's father is out in the woods with his gun. Bill and Nick stand together, looking out across the fields. They discuss the wind for the first time, with Bill saying “it will blow like that for three days.” After they go inside the cottage, they decide to drink. The two begin to discuss a variety of topics while drinking, such as different books they're reading. Bill likes G. K. C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The End Of Something
“The End of Something” is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway, published in the 1925 New York edition of ''In Our Time'', by Boni & Liveright. The story is the third in the collection to feature Nick Adams, Hemingway's autobiographical alter ego.Tetlow (1992), 65 Publication history According to notes on the manuscript, Hemingway wrote “The End of Something” in March 1924. Paul Smith claimed that based on the different kinds of paper used for the manuscript, it is possible that the story had “an earlier start”.Smith, 50 “The End of Something” was published in 1925 in Hemingway's first collection of short stories, ''In Our Time''. In May 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald reviewed ''In Our Time'' for Bookman, and called “The End of Something” “something fundamentally new.” Critics received the collection well, and “The End of Something” has been called a “harbinger of stories to come”. Synopsis “The End of Something” begins with a description of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Two-Hearted River
"Big Two-Hearted River" is a two-part short story written by American author Ernest Hemingway, published in the 1925 Boni & Liveright edition of ''In Our Time'', the first American volume of Hemingway's short stories. It features a single protagonist, Hemingway's recurrent autobiographical character Nick Adams, whose speaking voice is heard just three times. The story explores the destructive qualities of war which is countered by the healing and regenerative powers of nature. When it was published, critics praised Hemingway's sparse writing style and it became an important work in his canon. The story is one of Hemingway's earliest pieces to employ his Iceberg Theory of writing; a modernist approach to prose in which the underlying meaning is hinted at, rather than explicitly stated. "Big Two-Hearted River" is almost exclusively descriptive and intentionally devoid of plot. Hemingway was influenced by the visual innovations of Cézanne's paintings and adapted the painter's id ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
