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"The Snows of Kilimanjaro" by Ernest Hemingway and "The Death of Ivan Ilych" by Leo Tolstoy are both excellent literary works that both deserve equal praise. Hemingway's story is about a regretful, wasted author named Harry who is lying on an African plain dying of gangrene. Ivan, the main character in Tolstoy's story, is dying of a incurable illness and reminiscing of his life and grieving over everything he did not do right. Both stories have equally effective points of view told in third person narrative. "The Death of Ivan Ilych" has more realistic conflicts than does "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" which has extremely powerful symbols. Both Hemingway and Tolstoy are successful in coupling these three elements with various themes to make each of the stories equally enjoyable. The point of view used in "The Death of Ivan Ilych" and "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" is a third person narrative, and has been used effectively in both stories. Each of the authors use a shifting form of narration that efficiently helps to depict both Harry's and Ivan's situation. In "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," Ernest Hemingway's narrative changes from viewing the couple to inside Harry's mind through a series of italicized flashbacks and since the two perspecti
The hyena, leopard, mountain and rot are very strong symbols especially since their significance can account for more than one thing. (Hemingway,442) This symbol also demonstrates a theme in the story of living without passion. (Hemingway, 438) Harry's struggle concerns things he failed to complete while Ivan's is about all that he had accomplished through methods that were not morally right: "'Yes, it was all not the right thing,' he said to himself, 'but that's no matter. " The symbols in "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" are stronger and more meaningful that those in "The Death of Ivan Ilych. ves are differentiated in the text the plot is relatively easy to follow. " The conflicts in "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" and in "The Death of Ivan Ilych" are Robbins - 3 extremely similar and are both supported by a theme of coming to terms with a wasted life. Tolstoy uses the light to represent Ivan's afterlife. In "The Death of Ivan Ilych" the narrator states that "In place of death there was light" (Tolstoy, 181). The leopard is found at the top of the mountain and why it went there is a mystery. Both are excellent symbols, when the hyena appears so does the rush of death and the sac represents the darkness of death. " The dominant symbols in both stories represent death; Hemingway uses a hyena and Tolstoy a black sack: "For three whole days, during which time did not exist for him, he struggled in that black sack into which he was being thrust. " "The pain did not grow less, but Ivan Ilych made efforts to force himself to think that he was better" (Tolstoy, 156).
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