Анализ текста "ADAY'S WAIT by Ernest Hemingway"

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TEXT. ADAY'S WAIT

by Ernest Hemingway

By Ernest Hemingway

The name of the text:

ADAY'S WAIT

Genre: story

Subject of the story:

the most important meaning of this story is waiting, waiting for an event, in this case waiting for the next day. Due to the fact that the boy misunderstood the doctor, he is in a tense expectation of death, but he holds on bravely.

The writer managed to fully convey the hopelessness of expectation and hope paradoxically turning into hysterical excitement

In this text, the author tells about a sick boy and his father. The doctor comes and prescribes medicines, the father reads a book about pirates, but the boy does not change - he is still ill. It seems to him that he will soon die, because his temperature is 102 degrees.

«His face was very white and there were dark areas under his eyes. He lay still in the bed and seemed very detached from what was going on»

The author's attitude

to the hero:

«How do you feel, Schatz?»

From the first lines, we can say that the author treats the hero very tenderly, carefully, as if it were his child

“ What’s the matter, Schatz?”

He worries about his health, he is sad that the boy in such a state thinks about death:

«He lay still in the bed and seemed very detached from what was going on. I read aloud from Howard Pyle’s Book of Pirates but I could see he was not following what I was reading»

Hemingway strives to use vivid verbs and precise nouns rather than using many adjectives and adverbs. Sentence structure and variety.

In this story, Hemingway often uses long sentences for descriptions and short sentences when characters are talking .

Dialogue, or conversations between characters Hemingway relies heavily on realistic dialogue as a method of characterization.

Each of the boldfaced terms reflects Hemingway’s word choice in “A Day’s Wait.”

1.People were there, but he felt detached from them.

2. There is a serious flu epidemic this winter.

3. He had slack muscles from lack of exercise.

4. It was evidently too much for him to deal with.

5. The man observed a covey of partridges.

basic terms and concepts:

• Schatz(shäts): German term of affection meaning “my treasure,” used here as a nickname.
• purgative: laxative.
• Howard Pyle’s Book of Pirates: a collection of tales about real and fictional pirates, very popular when it was published in the 1920s
• evidently adv. obviously; clearly

• detached adj. separated; disconnected detach v.

• epidemic n. an outbreak of a disease that spreads quickly among many people
• covey n. a small group or flock of birds, especially partridges or quail
• slack adj. not firm or tight; loose