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animals as symbols
Title: animals as symbols
Category: Literature / Novels
Details: Words: 375 | Pages: 1.6 (approximately 235 words/page)
animals as symbols
Animals as Symbols
In both of Ernest Hemingway’s short stories, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, he uses animals as symbols to the character's death. In each of the stories the animals are used differently to symbolize the death. In The Snows of Kilimanjaro the animal is a hyena. The hyena moves closer and closer to him as death approaches.
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…showed last 75 words of 375 total…in the night to hear it he was afraid. (129)
The next night after Macomber had witnessed the lion’s death; the lion appears in his dream the night before his death. “…woke suddenly, frightened in a dream of the bloody-headed lion standing over him, and listening while his heart pounded” (141). In both of Hemmingway’s stories he uses animals to symbolize the character's death, without saying in the story that the animal symbolizes the death.
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