Ernest Hemingway
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
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Approximate Word count = 680
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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