Short Story Semester project by Travis Wuensch https://padlet.com/2017wuenschta/djlc3sxfgjn2 The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber en-us 2017-05-10 13:30:40 UTC 2017-05-15 13:26:12 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Thunder.png Fiction 2017wuenschta https://padlet.com/2017wuenschta/djlc3sxfgjn2/wish/171011302 The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber  would be a adventure story. The reason why I think that this story is adventure is because he is in Africa and talking about what is happening. ]]> 2017-05-10 13:54:20 UTC https://padlet.com/2017wuenschta/djlc3sxfgjn2/wish/171011302 What is 20th Literature 2017wuenschta https://padlet.com/2017wuenschta/djlc3sxfgjn2/wish/171245604 Literature of the 20th century refers to world literature produced during the 20th century (1901 to 2000).]]> 2017-05-11 13:23:34 UTC https://padlet.com/2017wuenschta/djlc3sxfgjn2/wish/171245604 Why is this story 20th century literature? 2017wuenschta https://padlet.com/2017wuenschta/djlc3sxfgjn2/wish/171245946 The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber is 20th century literature because it was wrote in 1936. ]]> 2017-05-11 13:24:44 UTC https://padlet.com/2017wuenschta/djlc3sxfgjn2/wish/171245946 Protagonist 2017wuenschta https://padlet.com/2017wuenschta/djlc3sxfgjn2/wish/171247847 That would be Francis Macomber]]> 2017-05-11 13:31:22 UTC https://padlet.com/2017wuenschta/djlc3sxfgjn2/wish/171247847 Antagonist 2017wuenschta https://padlet.com/2017wuenschta/djlc3sxfgjn2/wish/171247953 The injured lion and Buffalo, also his wife Margot]]> 2017-05-11 13:31:42 UTC https://padlet.com/2017wuenschta/djlc3sxfgjn2/wish/171247953 Central Conflict 2017wuenschta https://padlet.com/2017wuenschta/djlc3sxfgjn2/wish/171248251 When the injured lion charges Francis and Margot]]> 2017-05-11 13:32:50 UTC https://padlet.com/2017wuenschta/djlc3sxfgjn2/wish/171248251 Theme of the Story? 2017wuenschta https://padlet.com/2017wuenschta/djlc3sxfgjn2/wish/171248486 Men and Masculinity]]> 2017-05-11 13:33:36 UTC https://padlet.com/2017wuenschta/djlc3sxfgjn2/wish/171248486 Turning point 2017wuenschta https://padlet.com/2017wuenschta/djlc3sxfgjn2/wish/171249545 When Margot, Francis wife, tells him that she is cheating on him with Wilson, another man on the hunt with them ]]> 2017-05-11 13:36:58 UTC https://padlet.com/2017wuenschta/djlc3sxfgjn2/wish/171249545 Ernest Hemingway 2017wuenschta https://padlet.com/2017wuenschta/djlc3sxfgjn2/wish/171250550 Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), born in Oak Park, Illinois, started his career as a writer in a newspaper office in Kansas City at the age of seventeen. After the United States entered the First World War, he joined a volunteer ambulance unit in the Italian army. Serving at the front, he was wounded, was decorated by the Italian Government, and spent considerable time in hospitals. After his return to the United States, he became a reporter for Canadian and American newspapers and was soon sent back to Europe to cover such events as the Greek Revolution.

During the twenties, Hemingway became a member of the group of expatriate Americans in Paris, which he described in his first important work, The Sun Also Rises (1926). Equally successful was A Farewell to Arms (1929), the study of an American ambulance officer's disillusionment in the war and his role as a deserter. Hemingway used his experiences as a reporter during the civil war in Spain as the background for his most ambitious novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940). Among his later works, the most outstanding is the short novel, The Old Man and the Sea (1952), the story of an old fisherman's journey, his long and lonely struggle with a fish and the sea, and his victory in defeat.


]]> 2017-05-11 13:40:06 UTC https://padlet.com/2017wuenschta/djlc3sxfgjn2/wish/171250550 2017wuenschta https://padlet.com/2017wuenschta/djlc3sxfgjn2/wish/171251206 2017-05-11 13:42:05 UTC https://padlet.com/2017wuenschta/djlc3sxfgjn2/wish/171251206 2017wuenschta https://padlet.com/2017wuenschta/djlc3sxfgjn2/wish/171251666 2017-05-11 13:43:22 UTC https://padlet.com/2017wuenschta/djlc3sxfgjn2/wish/171251666 Summary of The Story 2017wuenschta https://padlet.com/2017wuenschta/djlc3sxfgjn2/wish/171253498 It is noon. Francis Macomber is on an African safari; Macomber is thirty-five years old, a trim, fit man who holds a number of big-game fishing records. However, at the moment, he has just demonstrated that he is a coward. However, members of the safari are acting as though "nothing had happened." The natives at camp carried Macomber into camp triumphantly, but the gun-bearers who witnessed Macomber's cowardice do not participate in the celebration.

In a flashback, the reader realizes that Macomber and his beautiful wife, Margot, are wealthy Americans, and that this jaunt is their first safari — and that Macomber, when faced with his first lion, bolted and fled, earning the contempt of his wife. Of course, though, she has been contemptuous of him for some time; Francis' running from the lion like a scared rabbit has only increased her dislike for her unmanly husband. She makes no secret of this as she slips off in the middle of the night for a rendezvous with the safari guide, Robert Wilson.

Next day, as she observes Francis gaining a measure of courage as he engages in a standoff with a charging water buffalo, she realizes that if Francis continues to prove himself strong and willful and courageous, he might leave her and rid himself forever of her sharp-tongued ridicule.

As the standoff with the second water buffalo becomes more intense as the water buffalo's horns inch closer and closer to goring Francis, Margot takes aim at the water buffalo, shooting Francis in the back of the head, and he dies at the most courageous moment of his "short happy life."

]]> 2017-05-11 13:47:52 UTC https://padlet.com/2017wuenschta/djlc3sxfgjn2/wish/171253498 The reason why I picked this Story? 2017wuenschta https://padlet.com/2017wuenschta/djlc3sxfgjn2/wish/171253984 Its simple, your life could end in just a moment. You don't know what will happen so you have to be courageous and work the hardest you can. ]]> 2017-05-11 13:49:02 UTC https://padlet.com/2017wuenschta/djlc3sxfgjn2/wish/171253984