Analysis Of The Short Story "The Killers" By Ernest Hemingway

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Killers), then the universal themes, the plot, and finally information will be presented about Ernest Hemingway and his previous works.

Next the basic concepts, treated along the paper, will be presented; then the authors of this paper will analyze the piece of writing in terms of genre and functional style. Finally the authors will explain the factors that make the story meaningful, purposive and unified, i.e. coherent; by analyzing:

. function or purpose of communication,
. context in which it takes place,
. knowledge of the world,
. knowledge of the language,
. knowledge of discourse types and their structures,
. shared knowledge between participants,
. social relationships of participants,
. structure, ordering, and quantity of information,
. interactional mechanisms and principles,
. and cohesive devices.

Literary Analysis:

Historical Setting:

Written in 1926, Ernest Hemingway?s The Killers is a story set in the ...

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The gangsters ridicule the cook George as he serves food, telling him he will make someone a good wife. And, they tease Nick about being a mere boy.

Chaos is also a theme as the killers come to town to kill Old Swede, knowing that he east at Henry?s at six o?clock, yet they ask the name of the town, and when told, Max says that he has never heard of it.

Similarly, Nick confuses Mrs Bell at the boardinghouse with Mrs Hirsch, who is the owner. These differences in the appearance of the world and the reality of it greatly confuses and disturbs Nick.

In addition, there is a theme of Crime that is prevalent. With the mob bribing policemen in the big cities, no one was safe. Max and ...

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