Monday, October 18, 2010

Ernest Hemingway

In Hemingway's story "A Clean Well-Lighted Place,"  The younger waiter,  "Mr. Perfect  I know it all" and the old man, "Mr. Lonely Drinker".


The  young waiter was very disrespectful. He would say rude things about the old man, to the old waiter. The old man and the old waiter  both didn't have a wife to go home at three o'clock in the  morning, when the old man left the bar.

 I don't think the young waiter was hardly ever right in the story because money is not more important than happiness in life, for anyone but him I guess. And he should have not talked about the old man. The old man and old waiter both hade a wife at one point in there life. He said that the old man "should have killed himself yesterday". I disagree because they would be losing  a customer  and lose money at the same time.


  The old man and the old waiter were  both probably were happy at one point in their life. The old man and the old waiter both seemed sad in the story. The young waiter had no patients for the old man when he wanted another cup of  wine, that  he was drinking,  but  he couldn't give him any more because they were going to close the bar so I agree on that part of the story.  He said that money is more important than life, and someone's family and I disagree on that part of the story.

My conclusion of this story is that ,I think what we should have learned is to not be disrespectful so other people don't  talk bad things about us, behind our backs.

Patriotism Response

                                 DOES PATRIOTISM STILL MATTER?  
In my opinion I think patriotism does still matter. That is the reason why we have freedom today. The freedom to express ourselves. Without freedom we wouldn't be able to say anything we wanted. If we ever said anything, that we were not allowed to say, and we were herd we would probably get in so much trouble, for not fallowing the laws.