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    This document provides teaching points and discussion questions for analyzing Ernest Hemingway's short story "In Another Country" through a modernist lens. It notes how the story lacks background information and a linear structure, uses a descriptive yet simple style, and features cynical, nameless characters. The document suggests the story reflects the uncertainty of modern life and makes an anti-war statement indirectly by showing how machines meant to heal the soldiers were also responsible for their injuries. Students are tasked with identifying how Hemingway's "Iceberg principle" of submerged deeper meaning applies to his sparse yet deceptively simple writing style in the story.

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    This document provides teaching points and discussion questions for analyzing Ernest Hemingway's short story "In Another Country" through a modernist lens. It notes how the story lacks background information and a linear structure, uses a descriptive yet simple style, and features cynical, nameless characters. The document suggests the story reflects the uncertainty of modern life and makes an anti-war statement indirectly by showing how machines meant to heal the soldiers were also responsible for their injuries. Students are tasked with identifying how Hemingway's "Iceberg principle" of submerged deeper meaning applies to his sparse yet deceptively simple writing style in the story.

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    This document provides teaching points and discussion questions for analyzing Ernest Hemingway's short story "In Another Country" through a modernist lens. It notes how the story lacks background information and a linear structure, uses a descriptive yet simple style, and features cynical, nameless characters. The document suggests the story reflects the uncertainty of modern life and makes an anti-war statement indirectly by showing how machines meant to heal the soldiers were also responsible for their injuries. Students are tasked with identifying how Hemingway's "Iceberg principle" of submerged deeper meaning applies to his sparse yet deceptively simple writing style in the story.

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    Department of Education City of New York

    THE LEON M. GOLDSTEIN HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE SCIENCES


    at KINGSBOROUGH
    1830 Shore Boulevard
    Brooklyn, New York 11235
    Academic Excellence in a Caring Community
    Joseph Zaza
    Principal

    Tel: 718/368-8500
    Fax: 718/358-8555

    Aim: How does Hemingways story In Another Country


    reflect thematic and stylistic aspects of modernism?
    I.O. Students will identify aspects of his writing style
    and themes which are representative of modernism?
    Motivation: What would your attitude be about war if
    you or a loved one had been invalidated out of it?
    Transition: Hemingway served in wars as a soldier,
    ambulance worker and journalist, how does he bring that
    perspective to this story?
    Development:
    1) Read the opening paragraph. What do you note about
    the style?
    - There is no exposition. The story starts with no
    background information. It is descriptive without the use of
    complex vocabulary. He uses concrete nouns and concrete
    verbs. The writing is very visual. The characters have no
    names.
    2) What aspect of story telling is missing? How does
    the story appear to begin and end arbitrarily?
    - Since it has no definite beginning, we can predict that
    it has no definite end. It lacks a linear structure of writing.

    3) What is the attitude of the soldiers about the


    machines? How do you account for their cynicism and irony?
    - The tone is sarcastic. His point of view is cynical. War
    improved medicine, because so many people had died.
    4) How does Hemingway use a global perspective to
    make the story universal?
    - The characters have no names, adding to the
    universality of the story. He refers to the characters by their
    position and where they are from. By doing so, he makes the
    story more universal.
    5) How does the story of the major and his wife reflect
    the uncertainty of modern life? They took every precaution
    to survive the war and she died from a non-war related
    illness. This shows the randomness of life. Suffering is not
    meted out in a fair and equitable manner.
    6) What is the key irony of the story?
    - The machines that wounded them are expected to
    treat them, and there is no guarantee there.
    Summary: How does In Another Country make a
    strong anti-war message without explicitly stating that idea?
    HW#1: Answer the following
    Hemingway coined the phrase the Iceberg principle to
    describe his writing style. An iceberg is only 1/8th visible
    with 7/8 of its size submerged in water and not visible to the
    naked eye. How does this concept apply to sparseness and
    deceptive simplicity of Hemingways style?

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