The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway

Yesterday we went over the The Snow of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway. This short story is about Henry, an angry writer who is full of regrets and keeps reaping over and over that he could have written through out the years about people he met and experiences he lived through, and his wife Helen, a rich woman who deeply loved him and admired him for his writing and freewill to live the way he wanted. Together they travel through Africa because Henry feels like it is time for him to start over again. Unfortunately, he ends up getting gangrene from a small scratch that he thought would heal on its own. However, it lead him to his death in the end. Ernest Hemingway was a well known writer with trouble within himself which lead him to be a heavy drinker and eventually commit suicide in July, 1961. We do not have class this Friday, so here are next week's short stories:  Pigs Is Pigs by Ellis Parker Butler and Kew Garden by Virgina Woolf. See you next Wednesday!