The snows of kilimanjaro sir ernerst

THE SNOWS THE SNOWS OF OF

KILIMANJARO KILIMANJARO By Sir ERNEST HEMINGWAY By Sir ERNEST HEMINGWAY

SILVIA VIEIRA

ERNEST HEMINGWAY

• Born on 21st July 1899

• Served in World War I and worked

in journalism

• In 1954, Hemingway won the

Nobel Prize

• He committed suicide on 2th July

1961

SUMMARY• Harry, a writer, and his wife, Helen, are

stranded while on safari in Africa.

• Harry talks about the gangrene that has

infected his leg

• Harry have flashbacks and realise that he

wasted his talent with luxury because of a

rich woman that he doesn’t love, his wife

PLOT • Starts on the African savannah where a man and a woman talk about

his leg, which is rotting away from gangrene.

• The woman tries to make him believe that he will survive

• As she speaks to him, his resentment of her money and her education

comes out in his comments.

• He realizes that he has sacrificed his talent for the material pleasures

offered by Helen.

PLOT• He remembers being in World War I

• As that flashback finishes, Harry returns to the present and argues with the woman

before falling asleep.

• When he wakes up, he thinks about her, why he married her, and why he does not like

her.

• Before he slips into another flashback, he and the woman have a drink together.

PLOT• He thinks about his time in Paris and Constantinople

• When he returns to consciousness, she convinces him to drink some

chicken soup and he stops thinking so harshly of her.

PLOT• He is in the forest, living in a cabin, and then remembers being in Paris.

• He realise that he never took the time to write about many things that he wanted to

write about.

• His flashbacks brings him to the real world as he asks the woman to explain why he

never wrote the stories he wanted to write.

• He thinks about why he feels such contempt for the wealthy, a group to which this

woman belongs.

PLOT• He thinks again about the war, this time about a man he saw die, before

waking from his flashback and talking more with the wife.

• He begins to see Death personified. It is then morning again, and the pilot,

Compton, has arrived to take him to the city and to the doctor.

• Harry gets in the plane and the pilot, flies him right by the peak of Mount

Kilimanjaro and Harry “knew that there was where he was going.”

PLOT

• The woman wakes up because the

hyena that has been making noise

for hours stopped whimpering and

has begun making another sound.

• As she looks over at Harry, she

realizes that he has died.

THE MAIN ASPECTSTHE CHARACTERS

• Compton – Flies the plane that is meant to take Harry back to the city to

save his life. However, he exists only in Harry’s dream.

• Harry – Is the protagonist of the short story. He is a writer and has had

many experiences in Europe

• Molo – Molo is a minor character, is the African servant who serves Harry

and Helen.

• Helen – Helen is a major character, she’s Harry’s wife. She remains

unnamed until the end of the story when a delirious Harry refers to her by

her name as he dies.

APROACH• Death – Man’s spirit can triumph despite death. Same deeds during

Harry’s life make this possible like his Giving away his last morphine pills

that he saved for himself to his friend Wiliamson. This act shows that he

was trying to redeem himself doing something that maybe he would be

remembered, triumphing this way his spirit.

CONCLUSION

• “The snows of Kilimanjaro” provide us a reflection…

• It was easier for Harry to blame the environment, his wife and her money

for his unsuccessfulness rather than try to correct his mistakes and

perverted life.

• Only in the end of his life he realizes what he could have done in his life,

but he does not have time anymore to do it.

THE END