The first two paragraphs of Ernest Hemingway's In Another Country serve as an interesting introduction to this short story. Hemingway's simple style of writing is shown here, where the audience is never told exactly what is going on, but are rather left to make their own inferences. In the first line of the story we are told about a war, Hemingway does not say which war it is, but by stating the fact that the men are in Milan the reader is left to figure it out on his own. Hemingway also does not tell the reader who "we all" is, in the beginning of the second paragraph which is a technique that intices the reader to continue reading in order to find out who the story is about and why, whoever it is, has to be at the hospital every afternoon. The first two paragraphs serve as a good introduction because they set the scene, but do not give away too much of the story. The reader is made aware of the fact that it is fall, in Milan. Hemingway's style in the first paragraph is very straight forward with
The words "...and sat in the machines that were to make so much difference" grab the audience's attention because they are left to wonder what is going on. This, once again, is an example of Hemingway's technique of forcing the reader to read on in order to understand what is going on. In other words the reader must continue to read in order to find out what the machines were and in what way they made so much difference, and even to whom did they make so much difference. The first two paragraphs serve as an effective introduction to the story because through Hemingway's simple style and his technique of 'leaving much unsaid' the reader's attention is grabbed and kept till the end of the story. Hemingway gives certain clues such as the fact that there is a war, and the fact that it is cold and these people have to meet everyday at the hospital. This style of writing then forcest he reader to figure out certain aspects from the clues given.
The second paragraph continues in Hemingway's simple style
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